Digital Architect

You will be the go-to person for day to day technical guidance. You will assist our extended teams take concepts from inception to delivery while also laying the foundations and creating roadmaps to unlock our potential in creating omnichannel experiences for our guests.

Requirements

The Digital Solution Architect’s work is varied and challenging, and includes the following: 

• Developing and maintaining the architecture roadmap across all digital channels working with business leaders to deliver best in class solutions 
  
• Present findings & recommendations to IT Architecture Forum, identifying where the proposed solution does not adhere to architecture principles 
  
• Ensuring that all licensing implications are understood and documented in support of the detailed solution design
  
• Build market & sector knowledge to ensure awareness of potential solutions / solution providers and share knowledge with other IT teams to enable engagement with the business
  
• Work with 3rd party solution providers to produce roadmaps for architecture components
  
• Identifying opportunities for decommissioning legacy systems and document licensing implications
  

What we would like to see from you:

• Five years’ experience in a similar role
  
• An infectious passion for technology
  
• Experience building and maintaining APIs
  
• An understanding of Microservices, distributed architectures and scalable environments
  
• Experience building solutions using the Adobe Experience Cloud with a particular focus on AEM and Adobe Campaign 
  
• Experience building Mobile Apps (Firebase, Flutter experience preferable)
  
• Experience in cloud computing (GCP and/or Azure preferable)
  
• An understanding of Customer Identity Management
  
• ITIL foundation – Appreciation of ITIL and Service Design techniques - Desirable 
  
• Demonstrable experience of working within an Agile environment 
  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with a focus on being able to translate complex data concepts to non technical people
  
• Ability to influence key stakeholders and work together to make change happen
  
• Knowledge and understanding of corporate policy and business strategy
  
• The ability to produce, manipulate, implement or enhance all architecture concepts, roadmaps, principles or effective strategies
  
• The ability to think laterally and constructively question established process
  
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously