Application Architect Ref. 1597

Key Responsibilities

• Gathering and interpreting requirements from the business and technical teams, including the implementation of proof of concepts to aid this process
• Working with Dev Ops teams and fellow architects to identify and design end to end architectural solutions, advising on and contributing to the implementation of application architecture and system/component interfaces
• Contributing to system roadmaps and future visions to help stakeholders understand where and how technology benefits them
• Using own experience, industry best practice and emerging trends, to initiate new ideas and conduct options analysis to recommend optimum solutions
• Designing interface specifications, writing high level design and detailed design for chosen solutions
• Being involved in the implementation of new technologies and methods

The Person

We are looking for passionate leaders in the technology world who are excited to take the initiative, be creative and drive engineering change across the intelligence agencies. You should have experience of successful application design and integration in large scale enterprise organisations. With demonstrable technical expertise, you will have the ability to design solutions and evaluate the merit of different technical options and approaches.

You will need strong communication skills to explain the impact of application architecture to the business and technical community, and the desire to work collaboratively by sharing ideas and experience across the wider architecture team.

It is essential that you have a development background in a high-level language (Java, Javascript or C#). Knowledge of Go, Scala, Clojure, F#, Erlang, Elixir or Haskell would also be advantageous. You will need to understand distributed architectures and be experienced in agile delivery methods, preferably with two years or more experience in a DevOps or Agile environment.