Agile Web Software Architect

One of the world's premiere management consulting firms with some 8,500 consultants across 89 locations in 50 countries. The Firm provides a full spectrum of consulting services primarily to large corporations but also to governments, international institutions, and non-profit organizations. These organizations include 100 of the top 150 global companies, touching every major industry.
Client's Digital Labs combines unparalleled business knowledge with a world-class Agile development process to offer distinctive support for enterprise IT enablement. Our highly skilled system architects and development managers configure software packages and build custom applications, creating the foundation for rapid and cost-effective implementation of systems that maximize value from day one.

Despite being part of a large, multinational organization, clientworks more like a small startup company. Our development teams are small, flexible and employ agile methodologies to quickly provide our consultants with the solutions they need. We combine the latest open source technologies together with traditional Enterprise software products.

Our office culture is casual, fun and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.

Role Description:

As a Software Architect you would be involved in leading agile implementation and transformation projects at fortune 500 companies. You would be a core member of the consulting team with responsibilities that range from shaping and implementing strategic products to ensuring that client's craft stays on the leading edge of technology.

Key candidate attributes:

The Software Architect has a real passion for software development. Well qualified candidates will have contributed to open source projects, have participated in some technical community or interest group or have written or spoken in public about their technical ideas. Despite having over 7 to 10 years of experience, a Software Architect will still be an active learner: tinkering with new open source libraries, using unfamiliar technologies without a lot of supervision and learning new programming languages in their spare time, etc. Lastly, the individual would also have a strong understanding of key agile engineering practices to guide senior client IT leaders on improvement opportunities in their engineering practices.

Skills Required:

The Software Architect would have an excellent knowledge of many of these web development technologies: Ruby on Rails, Java, PHP, Perl, SQL, HTML, .Net, JavaScript or CSS.
Engineering practices such pair programming, continuous integration, test driven development and incremental design should be second nature to the Software Architect. She or he should be using testing frameworks such RSpec, JUnit or Selenium on a daily basis and writing code without tests should be unimaginable. At the same time, a successful candidate will not only be a good learner, but a good teacher. They should inspire their peers and more junior team members to learn and expand their skill set, guiding them in the right direction.

Finally, candidate will have good communication skills and be able to explain complex technical issues in plain English to a variety of stakeholders and clients.

Role Requirements:

Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent area
Minimum of 7-10 years' experience in software development
Strong command of English language (both verbal and written)
Agile experience
Experience with building consumer quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
Strong application development knowledge of any of the following technologies: XML, Javascript, Oracle, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, .Net, Java, UNIX, HTML, CSS, Perl, or PHP
Infrastructure knowledge including Single Sign On, LDAP, LAMP, Search Technologies
Experiences of engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security
Knowledge of agile software development process
Familiarity with performance metric tools
Non-technical competencies
Strong analytical and problem solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
Enjoys and gets energized by complex problem solving and ability to push the innovation on solutions
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and IT executives on technology decisions
Excellent leadership skills and enjoys teaching / mentoring others
Ability to work under pressure, manage client expectations effectively and not get
overwhelmed by client pressures on team
Distinct customer focus and quality mindset
Ability to manage own learning and contribute to functional knowledge building
Ability to work both independently and in various team settings

Salary: £50 - £55 per hour

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