Technical Solutions Architect

Technical Solutions Architect

Salary £100,000+ per annum

Our client currently have an excellent opportunity for a Technical Solutions Architect. You would be part of a dynamic and exciting team within our central London office in a hybrid role earning a competitive salary of £100,000+ per annum.

As a Technical Solutions Architect with ECP you'll be responsible for design and implementation of best-in-class software architecture.

The role is responsible for defining the architecture across a blend of in-house bespoke solutions and 3rd party products and helping to shape the longer-term strategic architecture for the organisation. It will also involve understanding key business processes and consider approaches to delivering the required capabilities, including identifying and assessing new technologies.

You will be assisting the head of business solutions on developing architecture strategy and target architecture model. You will be working closely with delivery team members to coach and promote best-practice solution architecture as well as supporting business analysts and product owners in planning and story-mapping for new development. You will act as technical design authority (TDA) for delivery of technical stories and produce technical documentation artefacts to support the delivery process.

In this role you would be responsible for:

• The design and implementation of best-in-class software architecture
• Produce and communicate clear technical designs which meet the business strategic needs.
• Ensure that all work undertaken by you and your colleagues is of the highest quality and meets the agreed standards for software delivery.
• Participate actively in all team ceremonies (daily stand-up, team retros, sprint reviews, story-mapping, backlog refinement) helping the entire delivery team be the best that they can.

Essential skills:

• C# .NET Core, REST API Design and Development, API Management
• Document or No-Sql database solutions (particularly ElasticSearch)
• Messaging and microservices based architecture (Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions)
• Formal architecture documentation and diagramming techniques (BPMN, UML, Wireframing)
• Test and behaviour driven development strategies (TDD, BDD, Gopher)
• Agile Delivery Methodologies, SCRUM, SCRUMBAN
• Working in an agile environment using JIRA and Confluence
• Experience working in a data-centric organisation

Desirable skills:

• React Front End development
• React.Native cross-platform mobile application development
• Android development (Java/Kotlin/Dagger2)
• Image Processing, ANPR (automated number plate recognition) and OCR library implementations
• IoT relay control systems
• Networking security (Firewalls and network traffic control)