Senior Infrastructure Architect - Manchester, United Kingdom - MRJ Recruitment

MRJ Recruitment

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role:
Senior Infrastructure Architect

Salary:
Basic salary of £75k - £85k + Bonus + competitive pension

Location:
Manchester / Remote - Monthly travel to Manchester ideally

Our client is a dynamic and thought-leading digital retail organisation that has been able to ascend to the forefront of the market through a versatile corporate model that involves adapting to changing customer habits.

Now in the middle of modernising their cloud based Architecture through investment and team expansions, we're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Architect to help the business migrate from a monolithic platform to a modern cloud based micro-services architecture.

With you playing a crucial role in the defining of the company's overall tech roadmap through multiple projects and platform modernisations, it's a perfect role for any architect looking to get involved in huge multi-years programme of work with many careerdefining moments up for grabs

Key responsibilities:

Communicate across the business and ensure solutions are being built in line with brand expectations and tech roadmaps
Ensure platform migrations go ahead as planned and to schedule
Continually update the tech catalogue for other members of the team
Help support delivery squads through the creation of solutions designs and architectural artefacts
Work alongside 3rd party partners and ensure your voice is heard
Gain sign off for solutions at the technical design governance forum
Support key team members as requirements are implemented into the design
Conduct regular governance and quality assurance
Be open to working in an agile and collaborative environment with the flexibility to change one's work style if needed
Provide support to other members of the team and ensure solutions are released quickly and smoothly
Help maintain the architecture roadmap through regular and expert strategic inputs
Provide estimates and timings to Delivery Managers and Product Owners for the creation and support of architectural artefacts.
Continually strive to improve architecture processes and improve overall functionality/standards
Remain up to date on industry trends/movements and ensure any worthwhile methods are implemented into architectures where appropriate
Transferrable commercial experience working in a similar infrastructural architect role
AWS or GCP or Azure Architect certified (or working towards this)
Background in eCommerce retail is preferred but not essential
Expert communicator that can translate business needs into infrastructure architecture requirements
Skilled at meeting stringent nonfunctional requirements for designs (performance, scalability etc.)
Empathetic leadership qualities that can comfortably work alongside a wide variety of internal and external figures
Experience using docker (desirable)
Able to assist in the definition of roadmaps to evolve the technology landscape, at both tribe and enterprise levels
Understanding of DevOps (CI/CD and IAC etc)