Digital Architect - Technical/Agile Leadership - Java, Cloud, Devops

DIGITAL ARCHITECT - TECHNICAL/AGILE LEADERSHIP - JAVA, CLOUD, DEVOPS - LONDON

We're looking for an experienced Architect to join this huge greenfield digital project and provide technical leadership as well as management and refinement of Agile processes.

The ideal candidate will come from a Java Development background but have a wider technology agnostic experience and at least 2 years of Architecture experience (SOA, SOAP, REST), TOGAF certified ideally. Experience with other modern programming languages would be a bonus (such as Ruby, Python, Scala, Clojure, Groovy). Strong experience working across multiple projects would be ideal, web projects and would be favourable.

Must have a solid understanding and appreciate of the DevOps culture, continuous deployment etc and the associated configuration management tool such as Puppet, Chef, etc.

The successful candidate will have significant experience working in, leading, and setting up strong Agile environments. You will have an understanding of multiple methodologies under the Agile' umbrella and know where, how and why each works best (TDD, BDD, Scrum, KanBan, Lean, DSDM) and how they contrast with more traditional Waterfall/SSADM methods.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Java Development/Architecture
- Ruby, Python, Scala, Groovy, Clojure
- Experience working with high volume, large scale, public facing websites
- TOGAF certified.
- Team leadership, mentoring and guiding technical teams
- Agile Leadership
- Scrum, KanBan, Lean, TDD/BDD, Continuous Integration, DSDM
- DevOps, Puppet, Chef
- Excellent communication skills

If you consider yourself to be a strong Senior Technical Architect and are looking for your next opportunity on a highly demanding, large scale, digital project in the centre of London then please apply for this role.