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TESTQ Technologies Limited
Application Architect
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