Lead Technical Architect

Our client is currently seeking a Lead Technical Architect to join a new team as a heavy hitter in technology, leadership and someone equally comfortable with customers. This is a  permanent position. 

Responsibilities: 

• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Perform strong and constructive code reviews
• Working in collaboration with our customer – as a trusted technical advisor
• Build upon and enhance current end to end architectural design
• Design, develop and unit-test in accordance with established standards
• Tech lead for a team of 4 – 5 experienced engineers
• Perform Scrum Master role within the team

Skills and Experience: 

• 10+ years proven experience with the design and development of multi-tier software solutions
• Experience leading teams, coaching, mentoring team members
• A collaborative approach to finding solutions – value direct communication with customers rather than tools and processes
• Has the confidence to challenge decisions when needed and propose alternatives, both to the team and the customer
• Skilled at performing code reviews with Gerrit/Git/GitHub
• Display strong technical/architectural understanding
• High level of innovative thinking and self-motivation to drive results
• Passionate about code quality and coding best practices

Essential:

• Hands on Kubernetes implementation experience
• Design and development of software application stacks into Kubernetes
• Hands on AWS cloud  (Route53, IAM, S3, Batch, EKS)
• Fluent at a senior developer level in Java 8 & JavaScript/Typescript
• Track Record of practicing TDD using tools like Cucumber, Jest, Junit
• Experienced in Microservices architecture design and development
• Excellent knowledge of API design patterns and standards
• Experienced in creating Single Page Web Applications using React