India - Technical Architect

Provide low-level solution designs in response to high-level architectural designs.
Acquire deep technical knowledge of Inchcape s key products and platforms.
Contribute to low-code/no-code development of ancillary products.
Provide guidance to peers on architectural and developmental best-practice.
Collaboratively maintain and propose changes to the design, architecture and technology
standards, principles, framework, and guardrails.
Ensure architectural standards, governance, and principles are implemented effectively by
auditing assigned IT programs, projects, products, and small works.
Optimise deliverables for business value realisation, considering reusability of solutions,
architectural building blocks, components, and designs.
Review new and existing designs against standards and principles.
Ensure relevant processes are standardised, resilient and tested to meet agreed business
requirements.
Assess new technologies for effectiveness and better cost-to-value for business problems.

Key accountabilities

Work in collaboration with stakeholder groups, providing technical guidance and support to
ensure the successful and cost-effective delivery of projects.
Deliver low-level designs as part of defined overall solutions, aligning with architectural
principles and best practices.
Solution development based on existing technology stack to limit technological creep. The
Inchcape ecosystem is mostly AWS, C# and React. Services are loosely coupled and
integrated mainly through REST interfaces.
Align designs with business goals and objectives.
Consider future scalability and integration.
Identify and assess new technology for potential adoption within ISS.
Create feasibility studies and proofs of concept for given business problems.
Management and governance of technology bricks and technical debt, for hardware and software used in production and non-production environments.