Integration Consultant

Napier ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Napier is a technology provider offering the worlds first truly intelligent compliance platform for AML and trade compliance. We are looking for an Integration consultant, to support our growing client base and professional services team. You will be responsible for enabling our clients to adopt and integrate our solution into their technical landscape Role Summary You will be working in the Professional Services team, responsible for the technical and data integration of the Napier AML solution into the client environment. You will have a have a solid background in a variety of typical enterprise architectures so that after gaining a complete technical understanding of the Napier platform you will be able to work with client IT teams to integrate our solution into their technical landscape and business processes. Our solution can be on-prem or hosted through a cloud-provider and the successful individual will be able to inspire confidence working in either style. A significant part of the role will be around data integration and transformation. The Napier solution has a flexible data model and takes data feeds from a variety of client systems in many formats. To succeed in this role you will be able to work with both the clients business and IT teams to understand the meaning and purpose of the data in the feeds as well as how to configure the Napier data model and APIs. This is a hands-on role. You should expect to be scripting, writing data transformations, performing JSON/XML manipulation, database queries and building data processing pipelines as well as running architecture and data security meetings with experience clients. You should expect to be working on multiple projects around the world at one time (from the London base) and will need to assist the Napier technical services team in delivering your solution for clients. The role will suit an individual with a strong technical background in data integration and networking with excellent communication skills who wants to take on more responsibility for client projects. Specific responsibilities include: * Working closely with client architecture, project and development teams helping them to integrate to the Napier platform via a number of methods (API, streaming, file integration) * Specifying and/or building data-transformations on a per-client basis * Creating client-specific API/processing pipelines using tools such as Nifi to orchestrate API calls to the Napier platform * Producing and enhancing documentation to support clients integration to Napier * Tracking the specific details of a clients connectivity to both on-prem and hosted solutions * Advising clients on infrastructure options when deploying on-site, including sizing and networking requirements * Offering support to Napiers Operations team when deploying hosted solutions with sizing and QA testing Requirements * Excellent client communication skills, both written and verbal * Proven ability to work with both client and internal teams to tight deadlines * Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills, able to adapt quickly to changing circumstances * A strong background in delivering client technology projects * You will typically be running multiple concurrent projects and must have the ability to context-switch and prioritise effectively * A financial services background would be an advantage, preferably with experience of compliance and AML solutions * Strong data analysis skills * Excellent Excel skills Technical Skills Essential * Practical experience of web-based architectures and solutions * JSON, HTTP(S), certificates, RESTful architectures, XML * Data Integration technologies including data transformation * ETL tools (for example, Apache Nifi) , scripting * Good Linux skills (Ubuntu & Red Hat preferably) * Networking knowledge (TCP/IP, proxies, gateways, firewalls etc) * IT Security / secure data transfer knowledge * Experience working with large data sets and the challenges this can have * Secure architecture design * Hands-on experience with some of the following would be an advantage * Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark * Worked with Azure/AWS-type architectures * Performance testing / environment sizing * API design and documentation including authentication mechanisms Desirable Benefits * Package circa 55,000 dependent on experience * Matched 4%/4% contributory group personal pension * Life insurance * Group income protection * BUPA cashplan * Birthday off * And many more standard and non-standard benefits