About the Role
This position provides effective architectural and structural design guidance for RX Digital Team to make intuitive high level decisions for software development. With a strong technical background, excellent IT skills, experiences in designing and ability to develop a unified vision for software characteristics and functions, creates architectural approaches for software design and implementation to guide the development team to develop software or systems that will result in high quality solutions that are compliant, secure and reliable.
Responsibilities
1. Acting as a conduit between Global Architecture and the Digital Engineering teams and work across/with Architects from different organizations
2. Developing, designing, and govern the overall structure, framework, and architecture of software applications, ensuring alignment with business objectives and scalability for future growth
3. Evaluating and select appropriate technologies, tools, frameworks, and methodologies best suited for the software's development and data management, considering factors such as performance, security, and maintainability.
4. Creating comprehensive architectural and data modelling/transportation documentation, including design specifications, diagrams, and guidelines, facilitating understanding and implementation for development teams
5. Proactively monitor/audit systems and new development to identify gaps or discover subsystems or components that should be evolved into shared infrastructure, or other simplifying opportunities
6. Supporting driving technical direction, PoCs, architecture evolution, input into technical roadmaps and alignment to product delivery roadmaps
7. Researching industry advancements and building alliances to explore ways to leverage and advance our technical opportunities
Requirements
8. Have a decade of Software Engineering experience
9. Experience in designing and creating scalable, maintainable, high-performing software architectures for complex applications
10. Have excellent Azure/AWS Cloud Experience
11. Have an excellent understanding of programming languages, code, and database particularly .NET and Java.
12. Demonstrate experience in designing and implementing APIs, understanding RESTful and GraphQL principles, and integrating applications with various external services
and APIs
13. Have a deep understanding and application of architectural patterns like MVC,
MVVM, Microservices, Serverless, and others
14. Experience with DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform,
Ansible).
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
15. Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
16. Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
17. Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
18. Wellbeing programs
19. Life assurance
20. Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
21. Save As You Earn share option scheme
22. Travel Season ticket loan
23. Electric Vehicle Scheme
24. Optional Dental Insurance
25. Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
26. Employee Assistance Programme
27. Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
28. RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
29. Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
30. Access to extensive learning and development resources
31. Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work