Job Purpose
Design and develop software systems and applications, being responsible for high-level decision-making in the development process, deciding on the design, technical measures, platforms, or programming standards used in projects considering obsolescence and security for technology.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Curate strong relationships with business colleagues, understand business strategy and goals. Make recommendations to support delivery of business outcomes.
- Produce high quality solution designs and proposals for software / infrastructure to meet business needs.
- Identify project stakeholders and desired outcomes, analysing operational and non-functional requirements (performance, availability, scalability, obsolescence, security, etc.).
- Propose system architectures and components which comply with EA direction and design principles.
- Ensure strong focus on information security and that all proposed solutions are secure by design.
- Select the technologies for implementing each component and interoperability across the solution.
- Monitor the architecture and vendor roadmaps after system implementation, proposing updates when appropriate to ensure ongoing reliability, value for money and security.
- Ensure all design / architecture documentation produced is of a good standard, regularly updated and stored in the Architecture Repository.
- Always promote a culture of finding the best way to perform different team tasks
- Keep abreast of developments in technology, vendor roadmaps and industry trends.
- Work with Compliance with all relevant regulations and quality standards.
- Build constructive relationships with IT colleagues such as Solutions, InfoSec and Infrastructure and collaborate on new designs to help ensure good technical fit.
- Knowledge of Architecture frameworks and tools such as TOGAF or Archimate.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels, knowledge not only in theory also know how to do it.
- Be a sponsor of technical documentation across IT and lead design and presentations of HLD&LLD.
Formal Education & Certification
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or similar.
Knowledge & Experience
- IT Infrastructure, software and data
- Architecture frameworks, modelling and methodology.
- SDLC, Devops
- Expertise in Azure(other clouds is a plus)
- Service Management Process and Methodology (ITIL).
- Ticketing tools (Jira).
- Advanced English (C1).
Experience and adaptation
- Previous experience in a similar role: More than 8 years
- Previous experience in the sector: Not required (Desirable)
- Adaptation time to the role: 6 months to 1 year