Technical Architect

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT - AWS/RESTFUL WEB SERVICE API

My Client, a market leading broadcast/media company, are currently recruiting for a Technical Architect on an initial 6 month contract. The Technical Architect will need to be familiar with architecting, and working with teams that have successfully delivered, highly available and massively scalable micro web services that when combined, provide calling clients with a rich and variable set of business functionality.

The role will particularly appeal to those whose experiences have shown them that architectural vision is best delivered through a consensual, iterative approach - inclusive of stakeholder and engineering input. With this in mind the Technical Architect must have a strong understanding for developing API services and client development against those services.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- To work with business and technical stakeholders in order to understand functional and technology requirements and constraints, to enable delivery of a coherent architecture vision.
- To interpret product and project requirements and co-ordinate within an agile delivery process, between engineering and product leadership, to deliver architecture to support delivery of the product roadmap.
- To promote industry leading architecture best practises not only within the community, but across the wider Digital community.
- To develop architecture and engineering staff by providing feedback, guidance and support where necessary.
- To engage with 3rd parties where necessary to determine whether 'buy vs build' is the correct path.
- To support engineering and architecture management to own and progress the architecture in accordance with the wider Digital architecture governance and principals

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE:

- AWS experience deploying code
- Working with ID products would be advantageous
- RESTful Web service API experience in support of highly available and scalable services.
- Experience as technology leader in the architecture of web-scale technology platforms and applications with multiple millions of transactions per day (high-volume, horizontally scalable)
- Experience of architecting large scale technology solutions delivered using agile delivery methods
- Experience architecting and delivering message-riven distributed systems.
- Commercial experience of engaging and working with 3rd parties

If the role is of interest please submit your CV in the first instance.

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT - AWS/RESTFUL WEB SERVICE API