Platform Architect - Inside IR35

Reply Ltd, City of Westminster

Platform Architect - Inside IR35

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Reply Ltd, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

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job Ref: 2b35e10d8245418690d3e546989941cc

Full Job Description

  • Leading the business application and integration architecture domain, ensuring it forms a strategically aligned technical architecture, and providing though leadership, marrying best practice and market trends, with the FCA context.
  • Defining and maintaining enterprise business application strategies and roadmaps which supports the realisation of Business and Technology Strategy.
  • Defining, documenting, and maintaining patterns, policies, standards, guidelines and principles for the business application and integration domain, ensuring that these can be adopted successfully by the Product Groups.
  • Providing architectural governance, by working with Product Groups and Programmes, and by chairing/participating in governance boards, to ensure solutions are aligned to the strategy and technology direction.
  • Interfacing with senior business and technology leaders, as trusted advisor, and expert, to influence and guide opinion and decision making, within the domain.
  • Developing a central repository of tools, data stores and artefacts to support the Strategy & Architecture function. Supporting the Community of Practice.

    Significant experience in applying architecture principles to affect changes to a business environment and application and integration architecture.
  • Experience of architectural governance processes and formal architecture methodologies and frameworks.
  • Experience working within or an appreciation of Infrastructure, Software and Platform as a Service (IaaS, SaaS & PaaS)
  • Experience of developing and promoting innovative technical strategies and demonstrating understanding of the interactions between people, processes and technology
  • Ability to take a holistic view of the organisation and its business needs ensuring cross functional considerations are accounted for
  • Ability to grasp issues of a business nature, apply strategic and innovative thinking to develop pragmatic solutions and assess the technical impact
  • Excellent stakeholder management at all levels, negotiating and influencing skills, with good consulting and relationship management skills working comfortably at all levels of the organisation across differing levels of technical capability.
  • 1. Experience of SAFe, Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps 2. Deep knowledge of a broad range of technology and technology trends
  • Knowledge of architecture frameworks, for example, TOGAF or Zachman.
  • Experience of working with multiple solutions service providers and reviewing and recommending sourcing options for delivering the target enterprise business application and integration platforms
  • Experience of API integration, containerisation and microservices
  • Experience of cloud technology platforms (AWS, O365, GCP)

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