Technical Architect

Roles & Responsibilities

. Create Standards, Patterns, reusable Components/Building Blocks for consumption by clients vendors and project teams.

. Creation and continuous refinement of all the following: Standards, Patterns, Building Blocks, best practises, guidelines, technical specifications, and architecture visions containing at a minimum: mapping to policy clauses, quality attributes, diagrams, associated risks, technical and system requirements.

. Ensure Standards and policy clauses and/or requirements are mapped to the building blocks for traceability and automated compliance baseline achievement.

. Collaborate with clients project teams to understand their business objectives, technology ecosystem, and architect Cloud solutions use standard components and patterns.

. Lead the end-to-end solution suitability assessment/discussion, architectural analysis, and implementation planning in tandem with vendor architects.

. Perform Solution design, guidance, and review, including technical feasibility assessments, effort estimation, architectural decision-making, and ensure adherence to best practices, industry frameworks and organisational standards.

. Collaborate with the other architect team members to identify technical risks and challenges, proactively addressing them in the aforementioned Standard approaches and Patterns.

. Remain up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluate their potential impact on clients solution architectures, and present findings with recommended ways forward.

Job Requirements:

. Bachelor's Degree in Computing Science or equivalent

. Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in IT/ Consulting domain

. Minimum 5 years of working experience in an Architect role including designing, building, and maintaining complex, cloud-based solutions.

. AWS Solutions Architect certification (Professional level preferred)

. Proven success in leading/guiding small teams who are not your direct reports, to decompose complexity into smaller components and tasks, use well-understood, documented, engineered components (and Solution Building Blocks) with approved configurations, communicate and obtain alignment on the standard way forward.

. Familiarity with the principles and rationale behind disciplined Enterprise Architecture

. Knowledge of configuration management systems (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

. Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code (principles, tools, best practices) e.g., Terraform, Pulumi or equivalent.

Good to have skills:

. Working experience with other Public Clouds (Azure or GCP)

. Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Containers, Lambda, DynamoDB, EC2, Fargate, S3, SQS

. Demonstrated scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, or Shell)

. Microsoft Server OS and related technologies: Microsoft SQL Server, IIS, and Active Directory

. Deploying, monitoring and administration of SQL/NoSQL Database Engines

. Experience in conducting pre-sales and/or executive level presentations or workshops.

. Designing CI/CD DevSecOps pipelines (e.g., AWS Developer Tools, GitLab, Jenkins)

. Ability to collaborate closely with sales and delivery teams to provide pre-sales support.