TESTQ Technologies Limited

Application Architect
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📅 Date Posted

Jan 30, 2025

💼 Job Type

CONTRACTOR

📍 Location

Glasgow

💵 Rate

Unknown

Description

• Evidence of strong process, technical and team leadership skills, with a passion for delivering leading edge designs and inspiring a culture of technical excellence and innovative solution design.

• Experience of navigating the complex landscapes of technologies, 3rd party suppliers (driving the procurement process), internal and cross-government (or similarly complex) teams.

• Management & delivery of complex service solutions within time, cost and quality targets, ensuring solutions are robust, resilient, and appropriately implemented, tested and documented.

• Work in digital technologies and approaches including cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/cloud native), common front and back end technologies, software defined infrastructure, continuous delivery and DevOps. AWS cloud experience preferable.

• Design hybrid solution and migration path for on-prem / cloud services.

• Experience of owning and contributing to the technical roadmap and strategy.

• Experience in anticipating and advising on future technology changes that present opportunities for the application or service.

• Ability to communicate clearly in a language which meets the needs of different users/stakeholders through selecting the appropriate channels & formats and managing expectations whilst adapting to stakeholder's reactions with flexibility.

• Identifying process improvements and defining best practice, inspiring teams to follow it.

• Understanding of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles

• Mentor team of varied experience levels

• Certification – preferably in TOGAF, Oracle, AWS Solution Architect Associate/Professional or similar

Essential Skills:

• SME & Expertise in varied Architecture Landscape touch points of both On-Prem & Cloud; Hybrid; varied Programming Languages; Infrastructure(DR); Security; CI/CD; Scalability ; Resilience; Performance

• Expertise in Relational/Oracle; NoSQL Database concepts

• Experience in Oracle PL/SQL; SQL Developer; Toad & DW DBA knowledge; gap analysis; performance analysis proposing solutions based on varied product evaluations in current market

• Strong Architectural & hands-on experience in Oracle; MongoDB & DynamoDB

• Ability to evaluate run POC suggest to Business & Tech stakeholders products fit for purpose addressing performance other bottlenecks in BAU system

• Strong background in Integration technologies platforms such as Mulesoft

• Expertise Integration patterns involving files(using FTP SFTP MoveIT); MQ CDC Message Bus Hub Spoke Pub/Sub

• Experience implementation Security standards Data Transit Rest such as TLS SSL Data Encryption

• Knowledge MQ AMQ concepts such as RabbitMQ Oracle MQ

• Expertise Knowledge Data Management workflow integration such as Data Lake ETL Data Ingestion Sharding Data Stream Data Catalogue Data Cleansing Data Analytics Batch Scheduling

• Implementation knowledge principles ACID SOLID OWASP

• Knowledge UK GDPR PII PCI-DSS data standards

• Implementation designs related Batch processing patterns involving Talend Databricks Snowflake or similar

• Experience running GDPR related projects involving Data Sourcing Validations Integration Data Disposition Auditing Reporting

• Ability treat Data Asset Architect provide Solutions aligned it

• Strong working knowledge Java 8+ Clean Architecture Mockito Java Spring Spring Boot Spring Batch Apache Camel

• Needs possess expert depth breadth knowledge regarding multiple technologies inter-relationships e.g.: Web applications Java Oracle.

• Extensive experience working Java microservice architecture containerisation enterprise integration patterns data storage highly available distributed products.

• Cloud native delivery skills following open standards Containers As a Service/PaaS/IaaS AWS CDK Fargate Secrets manager Lambda ECS EKS S3 MongoDB Atlassian Serverless Functions data insight solutions.

• Experience designing systems integration re-use using frameworks/standards technologies design patterns API Gateways REST Message Brokers token-based security.

• Expertise Auth Auth principles tools SAML OpenID OAuth JWT OKTA AWS Cognito Hashicorp Vault

• Designing solution leading digital delivery teams using Agile DevOps methodologies ensure automation delivery pipelines flowing development testing infrastructure code automated deployment

A demonstrable record designing solutions key non-functional requirements including cyber/security policies resilience logging errors scalability abiding SLA

Experience creating guiding Architecture Artefacts Tech/Arch Roadmap/Strategy High Level Design LLD Estimation Product Evaluation Matrix Gap Analysis Performance Matrix

Enterprise Architecture knowledge practical exposure TOGAF Zachman

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