Pre Sales Application Architect

CBS Butler; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 93,000; Full time

Job summary

A global IT consultancy is seeking a Pre Sales Application Architect to create design artefacts and collaborate with project stakeholders. The position is hybrid, based in Basingstoke, and requires SC Clearance. Ideal candidates will have experience in design methodologies, cloud services like AWS and Azure, and automation solutions. A competitive package including a salary of GBP70k, car allowance, and bonuses is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in creating design artefacts for applications.
• Familiarity with industry standard methodologies.
• Willingness to obtain SC Clearance and go through DV Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Create design artefacts that enable application provision.
• Work closely with Solution Owners and Project Managers.
• Ensure solutions meet customer requirements.

Skills

Design Modelling

Requirements Modelling/Capture techniques

AWS General/Usage

Azure Cloud General/Usage

VMWare General/Usage

Technical Leadership & Design

DevSecOps tooling and practices

Application Security Testing

SAFe Processes

Data Pipeline Orchestration

Message Brokers

CI/CD Pipeline

Python Scripting

Low-code Platforms

RPA and Automation solutions

Software/API/Web Design

Database Design and Data Modelling

Job description

Pre Sales Application Architect

Salary: GBP70k basic + GBP6k car allowance + 15% bonus + 10% DV allowance (GBP83k - GBP93k total comp)
Basingstoke: Hybrid circa 2/3 days a week on site
Security Clearance: Needs SC Clearance to start and willingness to go through DV Clearance

A global IT Consultancy are looking for a Pre Sales Application Architect to work on delivery opportunities taking place within their secure Defence and National Security sector.

You will be responsible for the creation of design artefacts that enable the provision of Applications using industry standard methodologies.

You will work closely with Solution Owners and Project Managers to ensure that solutions are in-line with approved designs and meet the customer requirements.

The technical landscape that the team covers is outlined below, if you have skills and experience over some of these areas please do get in touch.

General

• Design Modelling, ideally with Archimate (BizzDesign preferred)
• Requirements Modelling/Capture techniques such as User Stories and Use Cases.
• AWS General/Usage
• Azure Cloud General/Usage
• VMWare General/Usage
• Technical Leadership & Design
• DevSecOps tooling and practices
• Application Security Testing
• SAFe (scaled agile) Processes

Data Integration Focused

• Data Pipeline Orchestration, and ELT tooling such as Apache Airflow, Apark, NiFi, Airbyte and Singer.
• Message Brokers, streaming data processors, such as Apache Kafka
• Object Storage, such as S3, MinIO, LakeFS
• CI/CD Pipeline, Integration, ideally Azure DevOps
• Python Scripting
• API Management Solutions

Automation Key Skills

Experience in the Design/Configuration/Usage in a number of the following -

• Low-code Platforms, such as Power Platform, Appian, UiPath, Blue Prism
• RPA and Automation solutions
• Experience in Business Process Analysis
• Software, Applications, APIs

Apps Design and Integration Key Skills

Experience in the Design/Configuration/Usage in a number of the following -

• Software/API/Web Design and Development
• Database Design and Data Modelling
• Architectural Patterns such as OO, Cloud-native and Microservices.
• Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium/Robot Framework

DevSecOps Key Skills

Experience in the Design/Configuration/Usage in a number of the following -

• CI/CD Pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps
• IaC code tooling, including Terraform, Ansible, Harbor
• SCA/IAST/DAST tooling, eg Black Duck, Coverity, Codesight, JFrog, Snyk
• Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium/Robot Framework
• Test Management Tooling ideally Azure Test Plans
• Secure Secrets Management, ideally Azure DevOps and Hashicorp Vault