Solution Architect - Paddington, United Kingdom - The People Network

The People Network

Verified Company

Paddington, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Solution Architect - Fully Remote

This is a crucial role where you'll be working on a number of greenfield projects involving a number of integrations, data ecosystems and deployments, you'll also provide architectural leadership and guidance to the Development Teams responsible for the developmentand maintenance of the business's products to ensure a stable, secure and maintainable platform.

This is a hybrid/remote role so you'll be able to work fully remote if required, or if you prefer going into the office then they're based near Reading.

The successful Solution Architect is responsible for:

The software architecture of the platform to facilitate the development and maintenance of the business's products
Ensuring architectural governance exists and that the architectural strategy is communicated to the development team effectively
Propose and design (prototyping or implementing where appropriate) solutions to meet high level business needs
Provide technical input into the requirements gathering process
Drive forward the adoption of best practices, tooling, processes and new technologies through training, coaching and documentation
Identifying and overseeing research into technologies that provide opportunities of interest

The successful Solution Architect will have/be:

Experience working on a high traffic, high availability website platform with large datasets
Experience in software development methodologies
Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Strong analytical skills
Ability to translate business needs into technology requirements
Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation as well as training, coaching and influencing
TOGAF Qualified
Experience with SEO on high performing websites.
Object oriented design and development
Docker/Kubernetes and other containerisation strategies
Technical Experience in or exposure to:
Expert Modern Perl, PHP
Linux
PSGI/Plack
Nginx
MySQL, Solr
Git, Jenkins
AWS

In return you'll be rewarded with a salary of up to £85,000 as well as a generous benefits package.