Architect in Basildon, Essex

Architect
9 Months initial contract
£523 per day (Inside IR35)
Hybrid - 1-3 days on site in Basildon

My client in the motor industry are looking for an enthusiastic self-starter to join their Enterprise Architecture team with a passion for solving complex technical challenges. The ideal candidate will have come from a strong development background.

Responsibilities:
- Deliver high level and low-level architecture designs and solutions to support the eCommerce journey within Europe, aligned with Global Enterprise Architecture guidelines
- Provide architectural guidance to support cloud migration and cloud native development within Google Cloud Platform
- Lead architecture discovery to develop and mature product technical roadmaps and strategy aligned with business vision
- Facilitate technical and process reviews with global team members, presenting recommendations and guiding teams through implementation
- Participate in functional global and local architecture guilds, cloud centre for excellence groups and peer reviews of cross domain solutions

Skills Required:
- Ability to architect front end applications and other back-end services in Google Cloud Platform, using GCP native services (e.g. Cloud Run, GKE, Functions etc.)
- Strong technical skills with good knowledge of front-end architecture frameworks, patterns, and technologies, SPAs, REACT, Angular, Spring, jQuery etc.
- Strong understanding of micro frontend patterns and implementation including management of custom elements, web components etc.
- Strong Project Management skills including Agile delivery
- Non-Functional Requirements analysis, testing and subsequent system fine tuning, to design architectures to meet scalability, availability, and reliability goals
- Interoperability standards and methods of exchanging data effectively and securely (REST and GraphQL APIs, Web Services, Authentication and Authorisation processes)
- Robust understanding of security protocols and best practices
- Desire to learn and work with multiple teams, systems and technologies while working closely with colleagues within Enterprise Architecture globally
- Strong communicator, recognising your audience and adapting the approach used to communicate technical and non-technical information

Desirable Skills:
- Background in Software engineering -
Knowledge of other cloud platforms- AWS, Azure etc. and relevant other platforms or hosting solutions, e.g. PCF, Containers, Kubernetes
- Understanding of Content Management Systems, especially AEM
- Understanding of project management and product management tools, e.g. Rally, JIRA
- Skills in event driven architectures and associated technologies, e.g. KAFKA, PubSub etc.

Experience Required:
- Proven experience architecting solutions within GCP
- Experience in designing or implementing micro-frontends, back end micro-services and/or service layers
- Design and management of APIs
- Previous work within Cloud migration and digital transformation or modernisation projects
- Proven experience managing delivery of solution proposals to time, scope, and budget constraints within formal delivery methodologies, e.g. Agile, Product-Driven

Experience Preferred:
- Experience with content management solutions, specifically Adobe Experience Manager
- User Experience and Product Design, and development and evolution of conceptual designs to facilitate project scoping and design
- Experience with event driven architectures

Education Preferred:
- Architecture qualifications (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman)
- GCP Cloud Certifications, e.g. Cloud Architect
- Project Management and/or Software lifecycle management

Additional Information :
- The immediate team is based in Essex and is operating a Hybrid working program, and it is expected that the successful applicant will be onsite 1-3 days per week, to be agreed with the hiring manager.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.