Platform Technical Architect

Role & responsibilities

Reporting to the Lead Solutions Architect, you will have technical ownership and lead on end-to-end architecture and solution development right from technology evaluation, running POCs, and seeing them through to Production, while working very closely with engineering and product teams influencing technical decisions, features, and the roadmap.

We expect you as the Platform Technical Architect to establish a strong understanding of the overall application portfolio, business priorities, and success measures to design DevOps/CI-CD solutions using PaaS and SaaS components for utilisation across our Engineering departments.

The Platform Technical Architect building strong relationships with our Technical Leads, Product Managers and Business Analysts is of utmost importance, as this is the group that will ensure business goals are met.

Requirements

• You will Research, Evaluate, and Prototype new technologies, tools, and products.
• Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of functional and non-functional quality.
• Develop deep relationships with key decision-makers, be an evangelist with customers, partners, and external communities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and define solution architecture.
• Maintain deep technical skills in key relevant areas and develop a good awareness of trends and competitive insights, while sharing this knowledge with the technical community.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to other architects and developers.
• Lead the design and development of technology solutions that meet business needs.
• Participate in Design and Code Reviews, to ensure a high degree of quality and to ensure Standards, Patterns, and Architecture are maintained.

About You

• You have a collaborative spirit and can work well in a changing, fast-paced environment while showing traits of empathy, humility, and respect for others.
• You can guide and provide leadership to others and set strong examples.
• You are a practitioner of Agile software development and can navigate the processes of a product and software team.
• You communicate clearly and can engage with confidence at both a technical and stakeholder level.
• You love learning from others and can elevate people to your level of knowledge.
• You understand the challenges of cloud-native, and multi-cloud architectures.
• You stay up to speed on modern technologies and introduce them to other team members.
• You have a continuous improvement mindset and understand the importance of not letting analysis paralysis creep in when ambiguity is present.
• You act as both a mentor, as well as an evangelist bringing others to a deeper understanding of a given technology or best practice.

Preferred candidate profile

Perks and benefits