JOB DESCRIPTION AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Reporting to Lead Solutions Architect / Senior Development Manager the Software Architect would be responsible to:

• Define fit for purpose designs based on a service-oriented approach, incorporating standards and best practices
• Ensure buy-in of future changes by engineering group
• Provide impact analysis for new demand items
• Create and break down epics and features, supporting solution design. Identify high-level application components and major reusable services and technologies to implement them
• Help define the SLR for non-functional requirements
• Ensure architectural integrity is maintained across the group
• Provide consultancy and review of service designs as needed
• Promotion and supporting improvements to technology and architecture
• Creates prototypes, PoCs (Proof of Concept) and PoTs (Proof of Technology). Makes technology recommendations
• ​Support skills development of team members, increasing the design expertise across the group

Key results areas:

Applications architecture that supports :

• continuous deployment of new features
• adherence to application and data security standards
• scale & performance metrics
• Use of sound architectural standards and best practices
• Analysis of new demand and solution proposals
• Mentoring, support & upskilling of engineering resources in UK and Romania to allow delegation of design tasks
• Fostering a continuous improvement culture

Core skills:

Technical

• Significant commercial experience of Application architecture
• Microservice & RESTful API design and development
• Design patterns and cloud patterns
• Domain driven design
• Design practices and modelling, e.g. UML, TOGAF
• Java 8 and above
• DevOps culture and practices
• OO analysis & design
• Agile practices
• Experience of the following would be beneficial:AWS services
• Secure coding practices as the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
• SQL and NoSQL database management
• Working with large databases

Behavioral

• Influencer – can articulate and challenge ideas to get the best outcome for the business
• Collaborator – can articulate and gain consensus for new concepts and technology changes
• Coach & mentor – can support and mentor software engineers
• Decision maker – can weigh up complex options to reach the right decision
• Well organized – able to plan own work and track progress against a plan.
• Strong communicator – able to articulate complex ideas to technical and non-technical people alike