Skills

Communication Leadership DevOps Stakeholder Management Architecture Solution Architecture Agile Microservices

Job Specifications

Job Title: Technical Architect

Job Location: Guildford Business Park Guildford Surrey GU2 8XG (Guildford, UK)

Job Type: Contract/FTC (6 months duration)

Is it Onsite/Remote/Hybrid: Onsite

Job Description:

Produces (or ensures production of) all Architectural deliverables under our development methodology.
Identify all areas of risk, including Architectural, Technical and Security, and to manage with the cooperation of the appropriate Stakeholders, defining appropriate work to address these or escalation as necessary
Ensures that the Architecture, any Divergences and Risks are both clearly communicated and agreed by all Stakeholders
Provides Technical Leadership to other solution architects.
Drives alignment of Client Technology landscape with the enterprise target picture, including system retirement.
Provides Design Assurance for Solution Architecture to ensure they are implemented as designed, and to the correct standards and quality

Skills & Experience:

Experience defining, documenting, and architecting solutions across a hybrid and on-premise cloud estate, potentially requiring integration with legacy technologies and products for large projects/programmes
Experience of providing architectural support and assurance to DevOps team and an application of Agile practices would be advantageous.
Experience with Technical Selection and RFI/RFP processes and undertaking supplier assurance of third party products.
Experience leading architectural design authorities for projects and working within Enterprise Architectural Governance and Enterprise Portfolio Management frameworks.
Stakeholder management and the ability to influence at varying levels (e.g. C-Suite, Developers, Testers, Project Managers, etc)
Ability to convey Architecture decisions through the use of a variety of communication techniques to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Broad knowledge of IT technologies and architectural styles/patterns (e.g. Event Driven, Serverless, Microservices Architectures as well as SOA, layered).
Applied Knowledge of the Open Agile Framework (Open.org) would be desirable but not necessary.

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