Fantastic career growth opportunity as the first member of an Architecture function for an award winning Digital Agency. This role is anticipated to grow into the Head of Department.

Supporting increased client demand for cloud architecture, delivering high and low level architecture designs across multiple vendor platforms.

The Role:

• Responsible for cloud architecture, design and engineering
• Often working on the middle tier between app’s and customers back-end systems making apps performant
• Overall leadership of the future cloud architecture practice
• Work with external partners
• Continuously measure and identify opportunities to improve methods and work
• Working with client tech teams and speaking at workshops and events
• Coaching and mentoring less experienced Architects and Engineers

Knowledge & Experience:

• Architecture skills in varied cloud tech (i.e. AWS, Azure, Any Openstack, Google Cloud, IBM Bluemix)
• Knowledge of varied programming languages such as JavaScript, .NET, Java, PHP, etc.
• Background in engineering and architecture with current cloud and DevOps experience
• Knowledge of mobile technologies (Swift/Android/Xamarin)
• DevOps tools/techniques and design (Jenkins, GIT, cloud based DevOps technologies)
• Security design and best practice
• Big Data Modelling design and implementation
• Defining service level agreements (SLA’s) in the cloud
• Microservice design , common cloud based API management techniques
• Interface definition with knowledge of documentation tools such as Swagger
• Design Research authority
• Large scale / high volume environments
• The ability to create high level and low level architecture design documentation for AWS, Google, Azure
• Enterprise roadmaps

Start-up experience would be highly desirable, as would a good understanding about emerging touchpoints and interfaces e.g. IoT, sensor, VR, AI etc.