Head of Architecture

Airbox Systems; Wantage; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbox Systems is seeking a Head of Architecture to lead architectural strategy and drive innovation. This role involves managing a team and collaborating with various departments to ensure high-quality product development. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in technical architecture and a passion for technology's potential to create value.

Benefits

26 days holiday per year

Private medical cover

Pension scheme with matching contributions

Personal Development budget

Electric Car Scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Technical Architect in product-led businesses.
• Proven track record in designing complex software projects.
• Deep understanding of architecture best practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement architectural strategies and roadmaps.
• Lead architecture teams and ensure high standards.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture Strategy

Collaboration

Innovation

Education

Technical Architecture Experience

Tools

AWS

React

NodeJS

.NET

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Leading the recruitment here @ Airbox Systems! | We're hiring across Tech and GTM

Why Airbox? You're more likely to love your work when that work has a purpose, when it's meaningful and when it's protecting lives. And, at Airbox Systems, it will. Here's why.

We are driven by passion and great people who share our enthusiasm for trying to make the world a better place, our friendly team includes individuals with backgrounds in military, aviation, and law enforcement. Our experience brings first-hand insight into frontline operations in the air and on the ground to enable cutting-edge concepts for improving the service that we deliver.

What this role is about:

As the Head of Architecture for Airbox you’ll be responsible for designing and driving the architectural strategy for our current and future products, working in collaboration with Heads of Engineering, Product, Platform Engineering and Infrastructure. This is an amazing opportunity to set the architecture strategy, standards and roadmap to enable Airbox's ability to continue to scale at pace as it enters a new phase of growth. You will work as part of a dynamic technology leadership team covering product management, architecture, engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure and quality and will be working closely with the team alongside the CTO to deliver the next stage of Airbox's incredible journey.

The Head of Architecture will develop and be accountable for Airbox’s Architecture Strategy, ensuring that we can deliver products at pace and that in doing so we meet high standards and recognised industry best practices across all areas of architecture. Like most businesses, we have legacy issues and technology we need to deal with so you will need to assess the state of our current architecture and rapidly put in place plans and programs of work to modernise where necessary. You will also design the next phase of our industry leading products, taking the learnings from our journey so far, and building a next generation platform for our customers. We are focussed on using industry recognised approaches to high performance including Google’s DORA framework, Team Topologies and Agile practices and we want you to bring in best practices in architecture as we design our next generation of products..

You will have demonstrable experience of replatforming monolith architectures, as well as designing and building new high availability, secure, scalable, mission critical systems and taking a leadership role in working with teams to ensure we deliver at pace and that we build high quality, flexible solutions.

You will be viewed as a thought leader within the organisation through knowledge sharing, mentoring and driving initiatives to continuously improve how we build our products, ensuring our product and the underlying technologies are designed, built and tested to the high standards expected by Airbox customers. You will manage a small architecture team ensuring that everyone is given the opportunities to grow and develop their careers at Airbox. Culture is the make or break of engineering teams and you will set a culture around high standards, high performance and learning, building the motivated, excited team that you need to succeed.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Direction & Planning

• Working closely with the CTO and other members of the technology leadership team you will be responsible for defining and implementing architectural strategies and roadmaps in alignment with the company's objectives. You will build and own the Architecture strategy for Airbox, ensuring it meets the goals of the Airbox Business Strategy and Technology Strategy with a strong focus on best practices and frameworks.
• Understand the business and technology vision for Airbox and take a leadership role in defining and running programs of work that help us to meet our goals and objectives, guiding teams in alignment with overall business goals and industry best practices.
• Communicate effectively and transparently the architecture vision, strategy and progress to senior leadership teams at regular intervals.
• Ensure we are driven by metrics and that we use these to “get better and getting better”.

Leadership & Team Management

• Work across multiple software engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Take overall accountability for our architecture, ensuring that associated projects are on track and are meeting expected delivery milestones and technical standards.
• Build and maintain a strong culture of innovation, and collaboration by driving the success and effectiveness of communities of practice and encourage a strong knowledge sharing culture.
• Line management of staff ensuring teams have support, mentoring, career development opportunities and ensuring thorough performance management is in place.

Driving best practices

• Responsible for leading our architecture strategy driving best practices in order to maximise the performance of the Engineering team to deliver against the overall product and technology roadmap, the quality of our Engineering effort and the continuous improvement of our systems to ensure that we can scale at pace.
• Be an advocate and ambassador for best practices in architecture and engineering, helping to drive high performance across teams.
• Be an internal thought leader through knowledge sharing, running technical sessions and raising the standard of the way we build our products.

Technical oversight

• You will have technical oversight of our entire product architecture, ensure our engineering teams adopt designs, languages, frameworks and best practices that align with our strategy to deliver world class products to our customers.
• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of architecture programs of work..
• Establishing metrics and monitoring systems to track application performance, stability, code health and test coverage and work closely with Product Management to align improvement plans with customer issues driving improved customer satisfaction.
• Ensure that the tools being used are fit for purpose and used efficiently and effectively, and that we have good documentation and knowledge sharing in place.

Collaboration & Cross functional involvement

• Collaborating with product management, design, and other stakeholders to ensure successful product releases, working closely with Product Managers and other members of the Technology leadership team to ensure we are aligned on priorities at all times.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards at all times ensuring that we are addressing security concerns throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Driving the resolution of technical challenges and leading efforts to improve processes and practices.

Continuous Improvement and Innovation

• Staying abreast of emerging technologies, best practices, and industry trends to incorporate into the organization's practices.
• Developing the technology radar for Airbox ensuring that we are making technology decisions that are well founded.
• Investigate new technical opportunities for Airbox (e.g. AI) and work with Product teams to understand where technology advances can add to the product roadmaps and drive new commercial opportunities.

At Airbox, we use a wide variety of platforms, technologies and tools to support the development of our various products. You should have experience of all of these technologies and in the designing and building of products and platforms in similar technology..

• Web applications
• React / NodeJS
• Current iOS and Android development using .NET 8 /Maui
• Support the latest 4 OS versions (12+)
• Kotlin, Jetpack Compose
• iOS
• Support the latest 2 OS versions (17, 18)
• Swift, SwiftUI
• Backend services
• .Net Core
• Kafka
• AWS
• REST API / Microservices
• GitHub Actions
• GitHub
• GIS

About You:

• Extensive experience as a Technical Architect in fast growing, product led businesses, ideally in a previous Head of Architecture of Lead Architect role.
• Proven track record of leading the design and build of complex software projects from conception to production with high availability, secure products.
• Have significant experience with designing, and delivering SaaS web applications and backend services within cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) with a good working knowledge of underlying technologies.
• Deep understanding of architecture best practices and the knowledge and gravitas to drive change and improvements in these areas focussing on achieving high performance.
• Can build, lead and developing high performing architecture teams
• Are passionate about the potential of technology and what it can enable, with a keen awareness of current technology trends, and the ability to see the potential application of new technologies to user value.
• An effective communicator with both external and internal stakeholders and immediate teams.
• NPPV3 Clearance: Successful candidates must pass an NPPV3 clearance upon successful application, which requires 3 years of UK residency.

What we offer: We’re always looking for new ways to celebrate our people. You’ll be no different.

• The chance to work with a passionate team that’s working together everyday towards our shared big ambitious goal
• A dynamic, flexible and fun scale-up work environment with a highly talented team
• 26 days holiday per year, plus public holidays
• Private medical cover with Bupa for all our colleagues, as well as a Wellbeing Allowance each year
• Pension scheme, offering up to 6% matching contribution
• Up to 20 Nomad Working Days per annum
• Personal Development budget
• Electric Car Scheme
• Truly living our value of Delight; we run Company Socials including Christmas and Summer parties alongside activities and gifts throughout the year

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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