Senior Architectural Technologist

Salary: £45,600 – £54,000 per year

Purpose of the Role:

We are looking for an individual who is hands on and can drive innovation and maintain a delivery schedule to our customers.

The individual will be the primary contact for the technology and delivery lead and ensure that projects are delivered in a timely, controlled and predictable manner. in charge of the core growing development team ensuring that development projects are planned and completed on time. The core skills highlighted below and ensure continuous improvement to processes are aligned with the group procedures and processes.

In this high-profile role, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end delivery of complex system solutions, through delivering a combination of waterfall/Agile projects. You will use your strong interpersonal skills to identify and engage with project stakeholders and then manage all ongoing communications to ensure all stakeholders are kept informed at an appropriate level. This role is not solely focused on project delivery. As the technical architect you will be the driving force for ensuring team operations are focused on tasks in hand.

You will also be responsible for coaching the team to self-organise and create high-value products and remove impediments to progress and quality. This role is a senior, highly skilled and as an experienced member of the department, as such, you will be expected to take on additional responsibilities beyond the scope of the immediate job. These will be agreed on an individual basis.

As an Individual:

You will have excellent skills in C# and full application development life cycle.

You will have experience working with stakeholders at various levels.

You will highly value quality and have great attention to detail.

You will have experience of Microsoft development stack Visual Studio/TFS/GIT/Jira.

You will have experience of UI development and may have experience of MVVM and WPF.

You will have experience of Microsoft SQL.

You may have experience of Microsoft SQL Reporting.

You may have experience of Azure DevOps & Insights.

You may have experience with CRM systems.

You will have a drive to learn and research exciting tech areas. This will help expand the skill sets of your team and provide the best experience for end users.

Key Responsibilities / Activities:

Managing the end-to-end delivery of complex system solutions, establishing and controlling project constraints and scope.

Managing relationships and communication with all project stakeholders.

Agreeing approach to delivery within the delivery project team.

Leading and coaching the project team as appropriate and according to the needs of the individual project.

Providing clear ownership for and visibility of the resolution of all project risks and issues.

Lead improvements to the efficiency and effectiveness of the project delivery / Managed Service and contribute to the identification of areas of improvement.

Ensuring the decisions made on project approach are documented and comply with internal standard and procedures.

Providing regular, constructive feedback to project team members.

Providing progress updates to the client and internal teams.

Overall management of the programme of work agreed with the client.

Develop and maintain effective and proactive relationships with the customers, their suppliers and third parties.

Maintaining and developing processes, standards, tools and reporting and their documentation and proactively reviewing the service provided to the customer.

Essential Skills and Experience:

TFS/GIT/Jira/Azure DevOps.

8+ years enterprise.NET development

Visual Studio (c# DotNet Core)

WCF (or similar)

WPF (or similar)

WF (or similar)

3+ years web technology development, including;

HTML 5

Web page design skills not as important

JavaScript

Angular 1 or Angular 2

NPM

Gulp

jQuery

AJAX

Websockets

Material Design Libraries

Angular

Google

Other

Web service development and integration

SOAP & XML

REST & JSON

3+ years development personnel management

Team leading

Time management

Communication skills

Development / developer level

Management

Client level

Flexibility in working approach

Working knowledge and understanding of current best practices in (with demonstrable application);

DDD

Micro services

DI

TDD

CI

CD

OO design

Excellent grasp of abstraction

Testing and Performance

Penetration testing

4+ years working experience and understanding of;

Microsoft SQL Server

Application deployment

Cloud hosting and strategies

Desirable Tools, Skills and Experience:

of leading CRM software development

Umbraco

ASP.Net

CSLA

IIS

Windows Services and deployment

Established company with ambitious plans for growth
Opportunities for development within the company
Expanding company offering excellent career prospects
Market leaders in their field
Friendly working environment
Modern offices
Personalised training and development program

Free parking