Job reference #6170_8605689

iHCM – Technical architect

Based in our Bristol offices, our delivery teams are rebuilding our core platform to leverage technology that will deliver a customer experience they expect, and we think they deserve.

This is a rare chance to deliver a step change in business productivity, not just a run of the mill project. It’s a technical challenge and a professional opportunity to do something you can be enormously proud of, not just a job. If that is what you’re looking for and you can deliver what we need, we’d really like to speak with you.

The Role

• Provide leadership, technology design expertise, direction, coordination, and consultation, in the development, integration, launch, scaling, and maintenance of new and existing products and solutions.
• Promote use of innovative new technology and best practices for new product and solution development initiatives.
• Influence and govern current and strategic architectural blueprints.
• Promote architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency aligned with business strategy.
• Identify key interactions and entities across the value chain, including suppliers, business processes and clients.
• Identify and manage issues of interdependencies among business areas and core technology architecture.
• Document the business operating model and create operational and strategic views of the business that facilitate decision-making and coordination throughout the value chain and among diverse initiatives.

A typical day in the life of the role will consist of one or many of the following;

• Define how a solution will be constructed: which existing Solution Building Blocks will be integrated, how they will be integrated, how they will be secured and what gaps in capability need to be filled.
• Serve as design authority at a project level by understanding the business goals and technology constraints and designing appropriate solutions that map to the organization’s enterprise architecture.
• Articulate high-level directives, goals, strategies, and turn them into actionable steps that can be understood deep within the organization.
• Ensure initiative and project alignment with business and IT goals.
• Leverage the most value from existing investments but commissions new solution building blocks as necessary.
• Apply globally-agreed upon standards from Foundation strategy whenever possible. Ensures business solutions have an enterprise and strategic perspective but develops locally-applied technology where local perspectives are a better fit for purpose.

Required skills / experience

• Bachelor’s degree; preferably in a quantitative field.
• Excellent knowledge of C#, ASP.Net and/or ASP.Net MVC
• Strong knowledge of REST API principle and guidelines
• Strong knowledge on securing web applications — OAuth, SAML etc.
• Working knowledge of RDBMS e.g. MS SQL.
• Enterprise Architecture experience and understanding of impact of strategy, process capability and governance on business performance.
• Strong collaboration, exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills including presentation skills and the ability to interact with global technical and functional teams including the business.
• Customer focused, action oriented and committed to driving quality results.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new processes and technologies in order to meet business needs and drive business value.
• Strong ability to resolve conflicts with the ability to influence and drive consensus.
• Must be a team player and be able to work collaboratively with and through others.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

You will also have some experience of, or a desire to learn about the following:

• Saas, PaaS, IaaS eg. AWS, Azure
• Continuous delivery and / or DevOps
• NoSQL eg. MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra
• Willingness and ability to mentor staff
• Message Queue systems e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Version control solutions e.g. Git, Mercurial
• JavaScript, CSS, HTML5 and major UX frameworks such as Angular

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