Principal Architect/Director (Data Streaming & Integration)

ZipRecruiter; London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Principal Architect to lead strategic technical engagements across diverse industries. This role involves advising clients on cloud migrations, developing robust application architectures, and directing implementation teams in digital transformation projects. With a focus on continual learning, you'll be immersed in the latest technologies while fulfilling people management responsibilities across Europe. If you're passionate about driving change and possess deep expertise in cloud infrastructure and data streaming technologies, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 10 years in a tech organization with a focus on technical direction.
• Experience with cloud migrations and digital transformation.
• Ability to work independently and manage teams.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on technical decisions and best practices.
• Lead engagements to assess existing workloads and infrastructure.
• Develop target state architecture for various use cases.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure

Linux/Windows Systems

Data Streaming

API Design

Programming Experience

Agile Project Management

Presentation Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Technology

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Google Compute

Job description

Job DescriptionPrincipal Architect || UK, Romania, Latvia, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia(Remote with Occasional Travel)

Job Description:

What you’ll do

• Advise clients on strategic technical decisions, develop and present best practices;
• Lead Discovery engagements to assess a client's existing workloads, infrastructure & software environments;
• Develop target state infra/application architecture and chart a path to delivery for a wide variety of use cases;
• Advise and direct delivery/implementation teams engaged in digital transformation and cloud migrations;
• Able to engage with clients at Pre-sales stages;
• Assess competing technologies to make best-fit recommendations for clients;
• Be immersed in a continual learning environment, adopting new techniques, patterns, and tools;
• Complete certifications and accreditations, advancing your technical skills and overall career;
• Fulfill people management responsibilities for staff in Europe.

What you’ll bring

• A bachelor’s degree in something interesting or equivalent experience;
• 10 years experience in a technology organization with significant responsibility for setting technical direction;
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and with limited direction, translate high-level goals into measurable milestones, and deliver on them;
• Broad familiarity with Linux/Windows systems, Cloud infrastructure, Messaging/Streaming technologies, Data-stores/Databases, Application/API design, Internet and Networking Protocols, Security Architecture, Version Control Systems, and CI/CD tools;
• Deep experience with several of the following platforms Kafka, Flink, Spark, Kubernetes, API Gateways, and messaging systems (Tibco, IBM MQ, and open-source variants);
• Deep familiarity with data streaming, integration patterns, and how they can be best utilized to deliver feature velocity, improve data security, reduce data processing timelines and resource efficiency;
• Some form of programming experience;
• A desire and demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, develop new skills, and solve tough problems;
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills;
• Excellent presentation skills;
• Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall project management;
• Manufacturing/Transport and/or Financial Services experience is a big plus.

Additional Skills

• Interacting directly with clients and senior executives in an advisory or consulting capacity;
• Large deployments on AWS, Azure, Google Compute or OpenStack;
• Streaming Data, Event-Driven Architecture, Micro-services, distributed compute/processing systems;
• Automated Testing and/or Test Data Management;
• Containerization technologies and best practices, especially Kubernetes;
• Experience working in globally distributed teams.