Job Description

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Introduction

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Architect who is extremely passionate and versatile in learning new technologies very quickly and contributing at the strategic and tactical level. Some of the key responsibilities of the Lead Architect include working with a globally distributed Architecture Team to ensure you are all aligned with the strategy we are pursuing. At a Product team level, we expect you to be promoting a scalable architectural vision and strategy adhering to modern practices, and conducting high-level risk assessment and impact analyses, to safeguard our architecture governance and compliance, including non-functional requirements.

Overview of the role

Reporting to the Chief Architect, you will have technical ownership and lead on end-to-end architecture and solution development right from technology evaluation, running POC\'s and seeing them through to Production, while working very closely with engineering and product teams influencing technical decisions, features, and the roadmap.

We expect you as the Lead Architect to establish a strong understanding of the overall application portfolio, business priorities and success measures to design solutions using PaaS and SaaS components, in a DevOps/CI-CD environment using coding practices adhering to SOLID principles and Clean Architecture.

The Lead Architect building a strong relationships with our Technical Lead, Product Manager and Business Analyst is of utmost importance, as this is the group that will ensure business goals are met.

Requirements:

You will Research, Evaluate, and Prototype new technologies, tools, and products.

• Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of functional and non-functional quality.

• Develop deep relationships with key decision-makers, be an evangelist with customers, partners and external communities.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and define solution architecture.

• Maintain deep technical skills in key relevant areas and develop a good awareness of trends and competitive insights, while sharing this knowledge with the technical community.

• Provide technical guidance and leadership to other architects and developers.

• Lead the design and development of technology solutions that meet business needs.

• Participate in Design and Code Reviews, to ensure a high degree of quality and to ensure Standards, Patterns, and Architecture are maintained.

Skills / Proficiencies required

• Extensive experience in full stack software development, with minimum 80% hands on development contribution.
• Solid experience of the Azure cloud platform, and other cloud stacks.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure CosmosDB
• Feels comfortable with containerization and container orchestration with Kubernetes, preferably within a Microservices architecture.
• Expertise in C# and modern .NET.
• Skilled in cloud-based database technologies.
• Working knowledge of application security, performance, and resiliency.
• Experience with Angular and/or other frontend technologies (ReactJS/NodeJS).
• Good understanding of identity standards (OAuth, OIDC, SAML).
• Experience leading technical teams and managing projects.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture patterns, methodologies, and tools.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing, microservices, APIs, and data platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and deliver quality solutions.

About You

• You have a collaborative spirit and can work well in a changing, fast-paced environment while showing traits of empathy, humility, and respect for others.

• You have the ability to guide and provide leadership to others and set strong examples.

• You are a practitioner of Agile software development and can navigate the processes of a product and software team.

• You communicate clearly and can engage with confidence at both a technical and stakeholder level.

• You love learning from others and can elevate people to your level of knowledge.

• You understand the challenges of cloud-native, and multi-cloud architectures.

• You stay up to speed on new technologies and introduce them to other team members.

• You have a continuous improvement mindset and understand the importance of not letting analysis paralysis creep in when ambiguity is present.

• You act as both a mentor, as well as an evangelist - bringing others to a deeper understanding of a given technology or best practice.

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Benefits:

• We act with integrity
• We are curious about the world
• We are stronger together
• We seek to empower
• We find strength in diversity

International: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office but we are all dealing with our 16 offices worldwide on a daily basis.

Hardworking but sociable: our staff know how to work hard but also how to enjoy themselves! We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours and regular socializing including frequent after work meet ups, summer and Christmas parties and a whole range of sports and other groups to be involved with.

Committed to making a difference: We think that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights, amongst many other activities.

Opportunities to grow: we offer extensive training and development opportunities at all levels. The vast majority of our managers and directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Euromonitor International does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.

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