Senior Technology Consultant

Sky UK; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media and telecoms company is seeking a technology architect to drive the technology roadmap for agile release trains. You will manage the technology strategy and architecture, ensuring alignment with engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in technology architecture, a solid background in agile frameworks, and strong communication skills. This role offers exciting opportunities in innovative tech projects that enhance customer services across the UK.

Benefits

Generous pension package

Private healthcare

Discounted mobile and broadband

Wide range of Sky VIP rewards

Qualifications

• Experience working within an agile framework at scale.
• Deep understanding and experience in technology architecture.
• Significant experience in a senior architecture or engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Own the technology strategy and architecture runway.
• Engage with architecture, engineering, and product teams.
• Support the breakdown of capabilities into features.

Skills

Agile framework experience

Strong communication skills

Technology architecture understanding

Systems and engineering design experience

Customer relationship management systems

Job description

What you’ll do

Define enabler features to drive the technology roadmap for your agile release train. Own the technology strategy and vision and systems architecture runway for your agile release train, informed by the wider technology strategy. Engage with wider architecture, engineering and product teams to gain consensus on approach. Participate in relevant technology forums and governance. Ensure system architecture is ready for PI planning and work closely with engineering teams to ensure understanding of the capability changes proposed. Work closely with solution architecture and engineering to ensure that change to shared capabilities is carefully coordinated and well communicated. Take accountability for strategic initiatives, shared capabilities, and cross-cutting objectives driven from the platform portfolio, while ensuring alignment and effective coordination within the respective product portfolio. Work closely with engineering teams throughout each PI to assist in the delivery of the work. Support the breakdown of capabilities into features.

What you’ll bring

Experience working within an agile framework, at scale with demonstrable experience of how to align systems architecture considerations with agile principles and practices. Experience of strong and close communication, collaboration, and team skills with both technology and business stakeholders. A deep understanding and proven experience of technology architecture and frameworks including technology change and delivery lifecycles. Broad and varied technology experience across architectural domains (e.g. data, infrastructure, integration, security, customer management, digital, app). Significant experience in a systems and engineering design background. Significant experience in a senior architecture or engineering role. Experience of customer relationship management systems architecture including customer engagement, commerce and fulfilment domains. Line management experience or a willingness to support direct reports. Experience in media and/or telecoms industry. You can balance quality, performance, and maintainability while delivering on time; you enjoy breaking down complex solutions into well-understood, manageable technology change and you have a proven track record of orchestrating and guiding multiple disciplines and teams to deliver technology change that realises tangible business benefit.

Nice to have

• Experience in media and/or telecoms industry
• Line management experience or a willingness to support direct reports

Team overview

UK&I Technology – Ground-breaking projects. Innovative tech. Top innovation. Join our UK&I Technology team and you’ll work across technology projects that drive our TV, broadband, mobile and Sky Connect services. You’ll be at the heart of delivering the technology roadmaps that support our UK and Ireland businesses, with a focus on customer innovations for Sky Glass. That’s not all. You’ll also design, develop and deliver digital services for millions of customers across the UK.

The rewards

There’s one thing people can’t stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster: Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place. The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate. A generous pension package. Private healthcare. Discounted mobile and broadband. A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences. Inclusion & how you’ll work.

Work location

Livingston Watermark House – Our lively campus is a free shuttle bus away from Livingston North train station and the town centre. Plus there’s onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Osterley – Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

Leeds – Our spacious tech hub is under a mile away from Leeds train station. There’s plenty of parking in the surrounding streets and at the nearby CitiPark. You can also blow off steam over a game of pool or table tennis, and stay fit at our subsidised gym.

Disability confident

We are a Disability Confident Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all, and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.

Criminal record check

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.