Lead Technical Architect

What you'll do

• Manage and mentor software teams delivering applications and systems for end users
• Advocate for the team and share practices, ideas and successes with other product delivery teams
• Provide technical leadership across workstream discussions ensuring seamless collaboration
• Participate in brainstorming and solution design sessions with Solution Architects and Developers
• Drive the team to agreed outcomes and a technical way forward
• Work with Product team to solve business problems with software in the shortest sustainable lead-time
• Explain technical solutions clearly to business and technical audiences
• Create the Technical Vision and Roadmap for the Platform Team
• Ensure team composition and skills are adequate, line manage Engineering Leads, mentor and coach them
• Guide teams in modern web application software development practices
• Publish, communicate, and maintain the technical vision and roadmap for the Workstream
• Ensure user experience aligns to Product vision and meets acceptance criteria and delivery timescales
• Ensure platform services are scalable, resilient, well documented and easy to consume and maintain
• Collaborate with Architecture, DevOps, Security teams across geographies and timezones
• Deliver secure, reliable, robust, scalable code using automation and CI/CD pipelines and Agile practices
• Lead teams in diagnostics, debugging, testing, deploying, and troubleshooting to drive quality and business value
• Enable an empowered team model and manage workload and stakeholder expectations
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and assess their impact and benefit
• Ensure solution design is reviewed effectively and conforms with NFRs, Security and Data Privacy guidelines
• Implement software engineering best practices such as pair programming, clean code, CI/CD, pyramid testing within Scrum
• Ensure code quality, test practices and code reviews are conducted to a high standard

Requirements

• Proven experience managing small software teams and mentoring engineers in enterprise web development and services development using loosely coupled systems
• Highly experienced in agile test driven software development
• Passionate about writing well-crafted clean code and comfortable working in an agile environment
• Ability to write high-quality code across modern JavaScript based programming languages and frameworks
• Knowledge and experience of delivering solutions using a microservice architecture with RESTful protocols and frameworks such as Express, NestJS and GraphQL
• Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging programming languages, frameworks, and platforms
• Knowledge and experience of implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Knowledge and experience of hosting in cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS
• Working experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Good experience of working in a Microsoft Azure environment
• Extensive experience in building applications and web services in MERN (Mongo, Express, React, Node) using Webpack, Typescript, GitHub
• Experience with Redis, Okta, OpenID is a distinct advantage
• Extensive experience of code quality, test, CI/CD and package managers such as Jest, Lint, Brigade and Helm
• Experience of Kafka, n8n and event driven architecture
• Experience of leading teams in delivering software and platform services
• Good working knowledge of GraphQL APIs (federation using Wundergraph), ABAC solutions (Symphonic or equivalent), CMS platforms (Strapi or equivalent)

Tech stack