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Technical Architect

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Technical Architect

£80,000 - £95,000 per annum + remote working options + benefits

Hampshire - Remote working available

Technical Architect is required by a market leading company based in Farnborough, Hampshire who are also offering remote working options. My client is looking for an experienced Software Architect to drive the technical direction of a greenfield project of a legacy product to a cutting edge modern and scalable platform. The Technical Architect will take ownership in spearheading the architecture and decision making throughout the team utilising best practice with a strong emphasis on security and data protection given the industry you will be working in. The Software Architect will have a strong background in software development and work closely with the development manager, product owners, business analysts and development team to rebuild the product architecture for their SaaS product.

The successful Technical Architect will have extensive experience working with a PHP and AWS products. You will be joining at an exciting period of growth where the business is going through legacy transformation and play a pivotal role in the greenfield projects taking place.

Key Responsibilities

  • Awareness of latest data protection and security threats and ensure that security considerations are at the core of all design decisions, mitigating system and data integrity risks
  • Design and build database schemas which allows scalability
  • To apply a modular microservices approach to all architecture design, ensuring stable, saleable, and maintainable solutions
  • Maintain a development and infrastructure strategy, to decide whether we can inherit existing code and/or support legacy code bases in future developments.
  • Create, update, and maintain product architecture and high-level design documentation for all products.
  • To contribute regularly to discussions regarding internal process and system improvements to ensure maximum efficiency across the company. Including suggesting technical solutions to problems.
  • Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.
  • To proactively drive innovation with new ideas and options made available by new technologies.

Key Skills

  • 5 years leading greenfield software architecture projects
  • SaaS product architecture experience
  • Experience working on and designing secure and data sensitive platforms
  • Design and delivered enterprise level software products from inception to delivery
  • 3+ years working with AWS
  • Experience in incorporating large databases with integrity and scalability
  • Excellent documentation and oral communication skills.
  • Knowledge of PHP, microservices, MySQL development environments
  • A technologist at heart - keeps up with technology industry trends and developments.
  • A champion of best practice, and innovation

This role offers someone the opportunity to lead the technical architecture of a market leading, successful, and established SaaS product. You will have the opportunity to build the product from the ground up utilising cutting edge technologies with a high performing development team at your disposal. If you're interested in a role of this nature, please contact PhilipMeehan@SpectrumIT.co.uk or call 02380 765 289.

Keywords: Software Architect, Technical Architect, Solution Architect, SaaS, Product Architecture, AWS, PHP, Software Design, Security, Data, Database, Scalability, Microservices, Best Practice, Remote Working, Hampshire