A quick look at the role
The Enterprise Architect is the catalyst in strategic digital transformation initiatives. You will be responsible for helping to define the future architecture, applications, technologies, and security for our entire product platform ecosystem. You will also be at the core of engineering activities with the goal of delivering modular, distributed, flexible and highly scalable commercial platforms partnering with product teams. The platforms you will architect will be driven by serverless or micro-services architecture, running in mainly Azure. At BIFFA, we have a huge legacy estate and you will be bringing a strategy to help us move away from legacy alongside bringing focus on latest technology trends and enable business growth with the use of technology.
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Your core responsibilities
* Collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to develop a cross business, multi functional platform vision.
* Partner with business segment leaders to support and deliver key technology priorities
* Perform architecture and technology evaluations of new solutions and drive rationalization, re-use decisions.
* Design highly scalable, performant and secure cloud propositions, build on target state platform vision Providing Technology Leadership and driving in delivering product roadmaps by embracing Agile and DevOps Develop architecture patterns and related services in several domains such as Service Mesh, IoT, Chatbots, AI/ML, Data Persistence, IaC patterns etc
* Collaborate with Product Managers, Software development Manager and other team of architects in shaping and aligning product roadmap and delivery of new features.
* Lead the analysis of the current technology environment including legacy estate to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommend strategy to move to a flexible/scalable architecture and future proof solutions.
* Lead the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the enterprise technology architecture.
* Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative technologies and approaches to refactor, extend and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate.
* BIFFA is a heavy user of Microsoft technology solutions, so knowledge and experience with Microsoft suite - F&O, D365 CRM, Power Apps would be highly beneficial
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Our essential requirements
* Enterprise architecture experience in developing end state architecture, mapping architecture to business capabilities and creating a path to achieve the end state using industry standard frameworks
* Prior hands-on Development experience developing enterprise applications in one of the following languages: C++, .Net, Python, Java, and SQL/no-SQL technologies
* Experience with frameworks like ReactJS, AngularJS, NodeJS and designing MicroService/Event driven architecture
* Experience with cloud migration and managing the development of cloud-based applications and development of APIs, web services
* Experience working in a CI/CD development environment with focus on developing CD pipelines to Cloud and On-Prem infrastructure.
* Advanced knowledge and experience with the full software development lifecycle, with Agile and iterative development practices and associated tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps etc
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