Technical Architect

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

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

• Initial focus will be on Test management, with work expanding into other areas as skills and capabilities grow.
• Reporting, reviewing and analysing QA data
• Reviews new or modified program, documentation, diagram or flow chart, to determine if program will perform according to user request and conform to guidelines
• Enters instructions into JIRA and Zephyr Scale to test functionality for validity of results, accuracy, reliability, and conformance to establishment standards
• Understands the change / enhancement in order to detect errors or within the integrated business layers
• Identifies differences between establishment standards and user applications and suggests modifications to conform to standards
• Sets up tests to locate errors following installation of program
• Working with others to develop and streamline workflows
• Collecting, assisting with developing and analyzing quality measurement data
• Maintain quality assurance database (JIRA / Zephyr Scale) to record test results, documentation and track defects
• Provide functional knowledge for automation script creation and maintenance

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science / Information Technology

Desirable Qualifications

• TOGAF foundation or practitioner
• 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. Also 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 nontechnical audiences
• Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations
• Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into technical architecture requirements
• Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of technical architecture alternatives
• Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions
• Comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies

Preferred Education

Associates - Computer and Information Science

Preferred Level of Work Experience

7 - 10 years

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote