Azure Cloud Architect

Summary :

We exist to simplify the lives of Britain’s businesses. Using our applications, critical operational tasks are done right first time, allowing organisations to look forward and thrive with confidence. We are the largest privately held software company in the UK and the third largest in Europe. Always looking to the future, we are now embarking on a major project to build out new cloud-based applications and services, leveraging the latest technologies and tools.

You will be working in the our HR and Payroll product platform, playing a critical role in building IRIS’ next generation of cloud-based, customer-focused payroll software. You will be helping to set the code standards and patterns that will be used across our new application suite, working with embedded UX, QA and DevOps experts to build re-usable services and components.

This is an exciting opportunity to steer the architectural vision in collaboration ourHR and Payroll product platform teams. The Architect must have a passion for the latest cloud technology and be excited to steer the technical design of solutions, ensuring that they align with the company architectural cloud vision, principles, and standards.

The architect will collaborate with the agile teams acting as the architectural enabler for effective cloud infrastructure and applications, they will ensure that a modern cloud-based architecture is implemented and coach the teams on best practices for effective cloud-based applications.

The architect will mentor other engineers/architects and be pro-active with a strong architectural voice in the team and ensure that products that are secure, performant and scalable

Responsibilities :

Design and Implementation

• Ensure solution designs align with company cloud architectural vision
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering to evolve the architectural backlog
• Work with Development Managers to build roadmaps on how to deliver cloud solutions in an agile manner
• Work with Product Owners to ensure that technical improvements are prioritised appropriately
• Gather architecturally significant requirements for major projects
• Design and document architectural solutions
• Implement and govern an architecture framework
• Code proof of concepts and core application areas

Quality

• Ensure cloud architecture is designed to be maintainable and easily extendable to meet future requirements
• Ensure Security policy is always adhered to
• Be involved in maintaining the KPIs/metrics around technical standards for the development teams
• Steer the development teams to ensure their implementation is technically sound and aligned with the cloud architecture framework

Planning, Organizing & Delivery

• Ensure cross team dependencies are understood and managed
• Ensure architectural blockers are removed from teams
• Ensure technical roadmaps are always current and up to date

Initiative, Innovation & Change

• Maintain an ongoing awareness of emerging trends in cloud and related technology arenas that could influence new projects
• Continuously look for ways to improve effectiveness and productivity and provide innovative solutions to difficult problems

Must Have:

• Multiple years of developing and architecting in cloud.
• Experience of designing full-stack architectures (multi-tier, so UI/UX, middle tier and persistence tier)
• An API-first approach
• Deep understanding of REST APIs
• Understanding of different software design patterns e.g Multi-tier, Micro service, Event driven

Desirable:

• Extensive experience of cloud SaaS platforms
• Strong foundations in security considerations