<strong>Description:</strong><br /><br />- Work with the functional architect and CTO to provide architectural blueprints across the business.<br />- Work closely with the development teams to communicate the big picture, integration API's across the system landscape.<br />- Production of roadmaps that communicate the application strategy across functional areas, including the legacy system decommissioning roadmap. Current state to future state.<br />- Help to promote a culture of Agile & XP across the organization.<br />- Be seen as a technical design expert in the team, working with developers to create a rock solid architectural foundation.<br />- Work with business stakeholders to define solutions.<br />- Map business outcomes to business processes to applications to the infrastructure that supports it.<br />- Perform an active role in identifying the need for and evaluating emerging technologies.<br />- Develop and maintain technical standards and engineering processes.<br />- Design complex parts of in house built solutions, responsibility for communicating the design to developers and reviewing the outcome.<br />- Contribute to technology selection, technology evaluation, vendor selection.<br />- Produce roadmaps showing current to future state.<br />- Produce architectural blueprints.<br />- Produce innovative designs, following through to their implementation.<br /><br /><strong>Requirements:</strong><br /><br />· Bachelor's Degree or CFGS in Computer Science<br />· Prior experience as a tech lead or as a an architect.<br /><br /><strong>Technical skills:</strong><br /><br />· Cloud<br />· Client Server<br />· Messaging<br />· SOA<br />· Microservices<br />· Mobile<br />· Big Data<br />· C#<br />· Distributed systems<br />· HA/DR<br /><br /><strong>Competencies:</strong><br /><br />· Identifies trends, and has the ability to see both the big picture but also understands the details<br />· Ability to tackle extremely complex problems.<br />· Demonstrates professional expertise<br />· Follows through to deliver results<br />· Proactive, drives projects, processes and people to deliver results<br />· Strong client orientation<br />· Works to deliver high quality service<br />· Develops good working relationship with internal customers<br />· Takes ownership of own decisions and actions - successes and mistakes<br />· Acts as a role model - practice what they preach<br />· Communicates and instills the company culture and values<br />· Promotes and advocates integrity<br />· High level of English