Architect

Axiom Software Solutions Limited; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider in Glasgow seeks a Technical Leader to manage complex service solutions and guide teams in cloud technologies and Java development. Your role will involve designing hybrid solutions and overseeing the technical roadmap while ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. Experience with Agile and DevOps practices is essential to foster a culture of technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of multiple technologies including Java and web applications.
• Extensive experience with microservice architecture and containerization.
• Proven record in cloud native delivery and open standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to deliver complex service solutions within established targets.
• Design hybrid solutions and manage cloud service migrations.
• Communicate effectively with various stakeholders to manage expectations.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud technologies

Java

Agile methodologies

DevOps practices

Enterprise Architecture

Tools

AWS

Oracle

MongoDB

DynamoDB

API Gateways

Job description

Responsibilities

• Evidence of strong process, technical and team leadership skills, with a passion for delivering leading edge designs and inspiring a culture of technical excellence and innovative solution design.
• Experience of navigating the complex landscapes of technologies, 3rd party suppliers (driving the procurement process), internal and cross-government (or similarly complex) teams.
• Management & delivery of complex service solutions within time, cost and quality targets, ensuring solutions are robust, resilient, and appropriately implemented, tested and documented.
• Work in digital technologies and approaches including cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/cloud native), common front and back end technologies, software defined infrastructure, continuous delivery and DevOps. AWS cloud experience preferable.
• Design hybrid solution and migration path for on-prem / cloud services.
• Experience of owning and contributing to the technical roadmap and strategy.
• Experience in anticipating and advising on future technology changes that present opportunities for the application or service.
• Ability to communicate clearly in a language which meets the needs of different users/stakeholders through selecting the appropriate channels & formats and managing expectations whilst adapting to stakeholder\'s reactions with flexibility.
• Identifying process improvements and defining best practice, inspiring teams to follow it.
• Understanding of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles

Essential Skills

• needs to possess an expert depth and breadth of knowledge regarding multiple technologies and their inter-relationships, e.g.: Web applications, Java & Oracle.
• Extensive experience working in Java, microservice architecture, containerisation, enterprise integration patterns, data storage in a highly available, distributed products.
• Cloud native delivery skills following open standards in – Containers As a Service/PaaS/IaaS, AWS CDK, Fargate, Secrete manager, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, MongoDB Atlassian, Serverless Functions and data insight solutions.
• Experience in designing systems for integration and re-use, using frameworks/standards, technologies and design patterns such as API Gateways, Message Brokers and token based security.
• Designing solution and leading digital delivery teams to using Agile and DevOps methodologies to ensure automation and delivery pipelines flowing from development, testing, infrastructure as code to automated deployment.
• A demonstrable record of designing solutions to key non-functional requirements including cyber/security policies, resilience, logging, errors and scalability.
• Working knowledge of database concepts, Oracle, MongoDB & DynamoDB
• Enterprise Architecture knowledge.