Job Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to steer the architectural vision in collaboration with the Payroll agile engineering teams. The Architect must have a passion for the latest cloud technology and be excited to steer the technical design of solutions, ensuring that they align with the company architectural cloud vision, principles, and standards.
The architect will collaborate with the agile teams acting as the architectural enabler for effective cloud infrastructure and applications, they will ensure that a modern cloud-based architecture is implemented and coach the teams on best practices for effective cloud-based applications.
The architect will mentor other engineers/architects and be pro-active with a strong architectural voice in the team and ensure that products that are secure, performant and scalable.
Main Responsibilities
Design and Implementation
- Code proof of concepts and play a major role in designing core application areas
- Ensure solution designs align with company cloud architectural vision and principles
- Collaborate with architecture and engineering to evolve the architectural backlog
- Work with Development Managers to build roadmaps on how to deliver cloud solutions in an agile manner
- Work with Product Owners to ensure that technical improvements are prioritised appropriately
- Gather architecturally significant requirements for major projects
- Design and document architectural solutions
- Implement and govern an architecture framework
Quality
- Ensure cloud architecture is designed to be maintainable and easily extendable to meet future requirements
- Ensure Security policy is always adhered to
- Be involved in maintaining the KPIs/metrics around technical standards for the development teams
- Steer the development teams to ensure their implementation is technically sound and aligned with the cloud architecture framework
Planning, Organizing & Delivery
- Lead teams through significant architectural and technical change
- Ensure cross team dependencies are understood and managed
- Ensure architectural blockers are removed from teams
- Ensure technical roadmaps are always current and up to date
Initiative, Innovation & Change
- Maintain an ongoing awareness of emerging trends in cloud and related technology arenas that could influence new projects
- Continuously look for ways to improve effectiveness and productivity and provide innovative solutions to difficult problems
- Knowledge sharing of technology/trends to teams
Key Relationships
- Engineering Teams
- Product team
- Architecture group
- Operations
- Engineering Management
Qualifications
Must Have:
- BSC or equivalent in a software engineering discipline, or relevant experience.
Desirable:
- Architecture Certifications (Azure)
Experience
Must Have:
- Multiple years of developing and architecting in cloud.
- Experience of designing full-stack architectures (multi-tier, so UI/UX, middle tier and persistence tier)
- An API-first approach
- Deep understanding of REST APIs
- Understanding of different software design patterns e.g. Multi-tier, Micro service, Event driven
- Ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences
- Serverless
Desirable:
- Extensive experience of cloud SaaS platforms
- Strong foundations in security considerations
Competencies
- Confidence & Communication
- Cloud-native architectural design & delivery
- Cloud Security
- High-volume transactional applications
- Collaborative
