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Position Purpose:
Betfair requires a highly skilled architect with hands-on experience delivering large scale distributed systems to join the Architecture team.
Betfair is a global online betting and gaming company operating a number of world-leading products offered through multiple channels and across several continents. Our continued business success and growth demand a lot from our technology, including transaction volumes that surpass many of the world’s leading financial institutions.
The successful candidate will be responsible for Betfair’s rapidly expanding games technology portfolio. The successful candidate will inspire and lead their colleagues to meet the challenge that rapid growth is bringing to our company.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
- Devise architecture for Betfair’s games systems
- Work as part of a team defining all facets of Betfair’s technology vision
- Evangelise technology and communicate technical strategy within Betfair
- Identify key technologies to enhance Betfair’s strategic advantage
- Supervise the composition of detailed design and architectural documentation
- Promote the companies technology externally in industry groups
Skills & Attributes
- Broad technical knowledge, complemented by practical in-depth experience of one or more of application server, database or distributed computing technologies
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- Ability to communicate with mixed technical and non-technical audiences
- Team player with a clear understanding of the route from design to deployment
- Flexible attitude and ability to meet deadlines under pressure
Experience & Qualifications
- 5+ years software development experience, finance or e-commerce background preferred
- A relevant degree or equivalent professional certification desirable
- Capability to design large-scale, highly distributed event driven architectures
- Exposure to highly-transactional or very high throughput systems
- Experience of delivering multi-channel applications on a Java/Oracle platform
- Web technologies, large databases, networking e.g. TCP/IP and a variety of current languages
Home to the world\'s biggest online betting community, Betfair is striving to become the pre-eminent betting platform for the internet. After launching the world\'s first successful online betting exchange in June 2000, Betfair has grown into a multi-billion dollar business with an established portfolio of online gaming products comprising of poker, casino and games. The company now has in excess of two million registered customers with over 50% of all new registrations coming from outside the UK and Ireland.
Betfair is major investor in new technology and employs over 400 engineers to produce one of the fastest and most resilient betting platforms available on the internet. Across all its products, Betfair processes more than 5 million transactions on an average day - more than all the European stock exchanges combined - and settlement is immediate. 99.9 per cent of transactions are completed in less than one second.
The Development Center in Cluj-Napoca, Romania is currently organized into 5 large technical teams plus the operational side of the business. The technologies we use are Java, .Net, Oracle, agile project management methodologies and SCRUM.
The rewards for joining BETFAIR Romania are excellent. They include a competitive remuneration and benefits package alongside a professional and socially-minded working environment.
Betfair has won many awards, including the Computer Weekly “Best Places to Work in IT” award on two occasions and it received Best Companies Accreditation for the “The best companies to work for in the UK”.
We are always looking for brilliant people to join our successful business!
