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Job Description Summary
Who?
All architecture decisions made for the area you support.Build compelling architecture strategies and roadmaps with comprehensive inputs from Business, Engineering, Operations, Industry and Vendors. Pro-actively drive forward the agenda to simplify and modernise our technology landscape.Keep pace with the latest industry direction and vendor offerings to ensure our strategies capitalise on new opportunities.Influence our investment portfolios and the direction of major change programmes to ensure strategic architecture outcomes.Build strong relationships and credibly communicate with key business and engineering collaborators across the organisation including CxOs.You’re an authority for an architecture domain with deep and broad knowledge of technology, methodology and assurance techniques.
Cloud platform technologies covering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services on Azure, GCP and AWS.Hybrid hosting architecture of cloud and tradition platforms including Midrange Unix and Mainframe technologies.API architecture standards including OpenID Connect profiles, API gateways, microservices including event driven architectures.Data trends including relational, NoSQL databases, data warehouses and data lakes.Designing critically important systems which have challenging service parameters, for example RPO/RTO Zero.Broad appreciation of cyber security (e.g., zero trust) and the architectural implications it has on application design.Modern progressive technologies – e.g., machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain etc.