Technical Architect - Madrid, Manchester or London, South Africa
Must Have: Strong experience in Microservices architecture and have designed AWS systems with resilience, elasticity, and high workloads.
Position Purpose
The technical architect provides technical leadership, analysis, and design required to develop solutions to meet the business needs within the architectural frameworks provided by Enterprise Architecture.
Create the deliverables to manage as-is, to-be, and transitional architecture states across delivery squads to enable targeted business outcomes in a consistent manner.
Location: UK, Madrid or South Africa.
Measures:
The Key Performance Indicators for this role are driven by the line business’ operational goals, and related IT business-aligned goals, and cover the following categories of performance:
- Cloud service principles agreed and embedded in overall IT operating model.
- Appropriate costing of deploying and supporting cloud solutions and services.
- Reduction in technical debt in both the cloud platform and applications deployed in the platform.
- Cloud platform security audit results.
- Reference architectures documented and maintained.
- Ongoing cloud platform strategy in line with Digital Transformation program.
Major/Key Accountabilities
- Maintain cohesion at the design, coding and architectural framework level of the platform as a critical asset for delivering value by acting with transparency and documenting each progress.
- Design, develop, and implement microservices-based solutions using Java, Spring Boot, AWS, TDD, and BDD.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, architects, and other developers, to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
- Lead the end-to-end development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment and maintenance.
- Ensure the scalability, reliability, security, and performance of microservice applications, adhering to best practices and industry standards.
- Troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions while working as a team to address production issues with a customer-centric mindset.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor junior developers.
- Build reusable code for future use and reduction of technical debt.
- Ensure architecture principles are defined and adhered to.
- Provide an active role in successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
Qualifications
Essential:
Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology.
Desirable Qualifications:
TOGAF foundation or practitioner. Certifications in Java, Java Enterprise Edition/Spring, Front End JavaScript are advantageous. Certifications in AWS.
Experience:
- Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, or cloud development.
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments.
- Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
- Good understanding of development methodologies and capability of supporting agile and serial teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
- Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful but not required.
- Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.
- Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
Skills and Knowledge:
- Deep knowledge of Domain Modelling, typical design patterns for microservices, containers, and Kubernetes, including securing configuration and communications.
- Knowledge of various database, backend, and frontend web development languages.
- Knowledge of information principles and processes.
- Understanding and knowledge of secure system development life cycle methodologies.
- Knowledge of information security principles and processes.
- Excellent analytical, planning, organizational, and technical skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work with developers in an outsourced environment.
- Skilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating stakeholders and peers with decision-making.
- Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to understand the long-term (
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