Principal Architect

ENSEK; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the global energy sector is seeking a Principal Architect to provide technical leadership and direction. This role involves guiding cloud native microservice architecture, designing scalable solutions, and collaborating closely with stakeholders. Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience in technical architecture, leading teams, and engaging with diverse stakeholder groups.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading architecture and technical solutions.
• Ability to mentor Solution Architects and Software Engineers.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical direction for our cloud native microservice architecture.
• Collaborate with CTO and managers on architectural decisions.
• Design and build scalable SaaS solutions.
• Manage and coach a team of Solution Architects.

Skills

Microservices

AWS

.NET

AngularJS

Education

Technical Architecture

Enterprise-Level Design

Job description

ENSEK Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

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We are a technology business operating in the global energy sector.

ENSEK have become the go-to option for top energy suppliers across the globe. Why? Because our technology is a significant step change away from the legacy systems that have historically dominated the market. It’s also massively cheaper to adopt the ENSEK solution, with no loss in customer service or standards.

But by far the biggest reason why ENSEK is the best choice in energy supplier software, is because of the people who work here and their endless enthusiasm, energy, and the way they support their colleagues. All our clients comment on what great people we have. Our people are our superpower.

That is where you come in.

Role Summary

In this role, you will provide leadership and technical direction for our products. You will play a key role in guiding our cloud native microservice architecture. In this position you will have the opportunity to get hands on, whilst working closely with other technical stakeholders, to make some of the key technology decisions driving our business expansion through our scalable SaaS solutions. This is a technical leadership role, and you will need the communications and engagement skills to take people with you and help guide and coach Solution Architects, Software Engineers plus Product and Delivery team members, so that they can see, and share in, the wider architectural vision for ENSEK.

Key Responsibilities

• You will have experience developing and running distributed microservices, designing for high availability, scalability and low latency.
• You’ll work collaboratively with the CTO, Solutions Director and the Solution Architects you manage, to take ownership of architectural and technical decisions.
• You will design, build and articulate architectural technical solutions. Therefore, maintaining a strong hands on ability is key to success within this role.
• You will follow technical enhancements and developments within the industry, taking new ideas and concepts and bringing them into our highly scalable SaaS solutions.
• You’ll drive towards an architecture that optimizes flexibility, re-use, scalability, performance, durability and availability.
• You will manage a small team of Solution Architects.
• You’ll ensure you are available to help coach and guide Software Engineering, and others, avoiding architectural bottle necks, thereby keeping colleagues engaged and informed.
  
  

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Leading expert. You’ll already be leading in technical architecture, enterprise-level design, implementation and integration, SOA, microservices, and event driven architectures. As we all as a being skilled in AWS, .NET, Web API, Node.js, and AngularJS.
• Stakeholder. You’ll be happy working your key stakeholder groups, informing, engaging and being available to them. You’ll consider this to be one of your key strengths and a big reason why you have been successful to date.
  
  

SOFT SKILLS:

• Innovator. Aptitude to look at solutions in creative and unconventional ways, recognising opportunities to innovate, and engage partners in vision and strategy.
• Communicator. Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills, with the ability to explain technical details and challenges to a wide variety of audiences (including executive leadership).

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Utilities

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