Technical Architect- Digital- Agile/Open Source/Ruby- Manchester

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT DIGITAL SERVICES- TO WORK ON AN EXCITING 6 MONTH CONTRACT ROLE WITH OUR GOVERNMENT CLIENT BASED NEAR MANCHESTER.

The successful candidate will provide hands-on technical leadership, in the development, operation and ongoing improvement of COMPLEX, DIGITAL SERVICES serving millions of users.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

Comprehensive and recent experience designing and implementing complex software systems, ie is an active software developer currently engaged in architecting and building high-volume digital services.

Proven capability in managing technology implementation projects and in presenting to/working with stakeholders at every level of seniority.

Focused on strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction.

Knowledge of AGILE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, in particular determination of vision, objectives, goals and success criteria.

Hands on experience of software development (TECHNOLOGY STACK- RUBY/PYTHON ETC)

Experience organising and performing prototyping and proof of concepts.

Experience with Agile methodologies (TDD, SCRUM, Kanban, etc).

Experience designing and implementing scalable and robust approaches to caching, security and databases (including relational, EG MYSQL, POSTGRESQL, AND NOSQL, EG CASSANDRA, MONGODB).

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

Open source technology stacks

Focus on scalability in approach

Deadline for this opportunity is Monday 20th October. For further information please apply online in the first instance.

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