Senior – Principal Consultant - Architecture

• Manage architectural risk, trade-offs and technical decision-making

Technical & Cloud Architecture

• Design scalable, secure and resilient supportable cloud-native solutions

• Define infrastructure, platform and application architectures

• Support migration and modernisation initiatives across legacy and cloud environments

• Establish engineering standards, patterns and automation approaches

• Provide assurance on technical designs and implementation practices

• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automation and modern engineering practices.

Integration, Automation & Emerging Technology

• Design modern data platform architectures

• Define integration patterns, API strategies and event-driven architectures

• Support the effective integration of applications, platforms and services

• Support data governance, analytics and AI-enabled transformation initiatives

• Promote responsible adoption of AI, automation and emerging technologies

• Identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness through technology innovation

Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership

• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders

• Facilitate workshops and architecture reviews

• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Mentor consultants, engineers and junior architects

• Contribute to business development, bids and capability growth initiatives

Skills and Experience:

Architecture & Design

Experience in one or more of:

• Enterprise Architecture

• Solution Architecture

• Technical Architecture

• Cloud Architecture

• Data Architecture

• Integration Architecture

• Platform Architecture

Demonstrable experience delivering architecture services across large-scale transformation programmes.

Cloud Platforms

Experience with one or more major cloud platforms:

• Microsoft Azure

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Knowledge of:

• Cloud adoption frameworks

• Landing zones

• Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures

• Cloud governance and cost optimisation

• Knowledge of cloud governance, operational controls and well-architected practices.

Infrastructure & Automation

Experience with:

• Terraform

• Bicep

• CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as Code

• Configuration management

• CI/CD pipelines

• GitHub

• Azure DevOps

• GitLab

Knowledge of:

• Knowledge of DevOps, automation and modern engineering practices

• Platform engineering

• Site Reliability Engineering principles

Data & Analytics

Experience with technologies such as:

• Databricks

• Microsoft Fabric

• Azure Data Factory

• Synapse Analytics

• Snowflake

• BigQuery

• Redshift

• Kafka

• Apache Spark

Knowledge of:

• Data modelling

• Data governance

• Data integration

• Data migration

• Data warehousing

• Master Data Management

Applications & Integration

Experience designing solutions using one or more of the following approaches: API-led architectures

• REST APIs

• Event-driven architectures

• Microservices

• Service-oriented architectures

• Integration platforms

• Containerisation technologies

Technologies may include:

• Kubernetes

• Docker

• OpenShift

• MuleSoft

• Boomi

• Kong

• Apigee

Delivery & Ways of Working

Strong understanding of:

• Agile delivery

• SAFe

• Lean approaches

• Architecture governance

• Design Authority processes

• Technical assurance

• User-centred design principles

• Government Digital Service (GDS) standards

Additional Technologies (useful but not essential):

• Power Platform

• Azure OpenAI

• OpenAI Services

• Kubernetes

• OpenShift

• MongoDB

• PostgreSQL

• SQL Server

• Neo4j

• Elastic

• Event Hub

• Service Bus

• Kafka

• Confluent

• GraphQL

• FinOps

• Platform Engineering

• AI/ML Operations (MLOps)

• Data Mesh

• Data Products

Benefits at i3Works:

• Private healthcare/medical cover & Group life insurance

• Annual bonus scheme (dependent on personal and company performance)

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing by 1 day per each calendar year, after your 3rd anniversary with the company– rising to a maximum of 30 days + bank holidays).

• Enhanced Reservist Leave – up to 10 days paid.

• Annual leave purchase scheme (up to 5 days per year)

• 6% company pension contribution

• £250.00 annual donation towards a charity or grassroots organisation of your choice

• Personal wellness benefit of £120.00 per month, access to unlimited 1-1 counselling support and a wealth of wellbeing and support resources

• Enhanced parental leave

• Electric car leasing salary sacrifice scheme

• Cycle to work scheme (save 25-39% on a bike and accessories)

• Paid qualifications for employees at all levels

• Internal Employee Networks, regular social events throughout the year and charity fundraising activities to get involved with if you wish.

At i3Works we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

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