Digital Systems Architect – Financial Services - Northampton
We require a Digital Architect to support in the definition of digital architecture, roadmaps, and technical solutions, as well as technical consultancy and leading-edge technology thinking.
Responsibilities:
1. Clearly articulate and communicate the direction and benefits of digital architecture to developers, engineers, and non-technical stakeholders.
2. Create digital technology architecture solutions and cost estimates to meet business needs, in line with strategy and architecture.
3. Work with the supply chain (including external) as appropriate.
4. Collaborate with enterprise-wide architects and digital business aligned strategy leads to support the creation of an appropriate digital technology strategy for the relevant business area.
5. Maintain technology roadmaps for digital capabilities across the company.
6. Ensure digital engineering and development teams are aligned to the technical strategy, architecture, quality standards, and policies.
7. Work collaboratively with technology colleagues, project managers, architects, business analysts, and developers to ensure that digital outcomes delivered by projects are consistent with the original technical solution specified.
8. Challenge stakeholders creatively and professionally to create architectural solutions that meet business needs, including budgetary and time constraints, while being aligned to the company architectural blueprint, principles, and standards.
9. Describe existing and emerging digital technology and technology strategy to developers and non-technical stakeholders both verbally and via appropriate documentation.
Qualifications:
1. Experience of application client and server architecture in the web and/or mobile domain, application frameworks, and architecture patterns.
2. Experience of Object-Oriented design and Enterprise Integration Patterns, with the ability to present technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
3. Specific experience of domain-driven and event-driven architecture.
The following would be nice to have:
1. Experience of operating in an Agile delivery environment, microservices, and refactoring to microservices.
2. Knowledge and experience of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman).
3. Experience of DevOps and containerization.
4. Past and/or current experience of Java/JavaScript software development in an agile development environment.
This is a contract assignment between 3 to 6 months initially, based in Northampton.
Please send your CV to us in Word format.
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