Platform Tech Architect & Cloud DevOps Lead

Job Information

CAPABILITY / JOB FAMILY GROUP:
Platforms

JOB FAMILY:
Platform Architecture

JOB PROFILE

TITLE:

Platform Technical Architect

MANAGEMENT LEVEL:
Consultant

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:

As a Platform Technical Architect in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for leading teams developing high quality solutions on public cloud which delight our customers. As a technical leader on a project, you’ll work with customer architects to design, automate, build and support modern digital service platforms, advising on estimated effort and technical implications of user stories and decisions. It’s a fast-paced environment and you’ll be trusted to make sound, reasoned decisions as you continually learn and apply new technologies and approaches with talented colleagues.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Working as part of a wider team - You’ll provide leadership working alongside colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security capabilities to design solutions of the highest quality which meet all non-functional requirements.
• Using technology for positive impact – You’ll keep appraised of the latest technologies and ensure we employ them appropriately for maximum user and business benefit.
• Being objectively opinionated – As a respected voice within Kainos and beyond, you’ll offer your opinion and critique to improve our solutions. You’ll proactively share knowledge internally within Kainos and more widely in industry.
• Developing Kainos as a Business – You help Kainos to qualify and win new opportunities.
• Providing technical leadership – You’ll provide technical leadership on delivery and support projects which may sometimes require you to be hands‑on and to take difficult, but necessary decisions.
• Being a role model – You’ll support your colleagues and foster a Dev Ops culture in all that you do by embodying the Kainos values. You’ll be the person people look up to – people trust your decisions because they are transparent and justified. You’ll be passionate and committed to ensuring Kainos projects are successful.
• Putting people first & developing others – You’ll manage, coach and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development. You’ll also provide direction and leadership for your colleagues as you solve challenging problems together.
• Being Adaptable – You’ll mould yourself to customer engagements and stretch to learn new skills as needs arise; through this you’ll be supported by talented colleagues across Learning & Development and Architecture.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to simply and clearly communicate technical design in conversation, documentation and presentation to a technical and non-technical audience.
• We all work in teams here in Kainos – You’ll need a proven experience of team leadership and supporting a Dev Ops culture in delivering complex projects.
• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing junior members of your team and wider community.
• Demonstrable personal ownership of:
  • Building and operating modern digital service platform (or significant portions thereof) including architecture, estimation, planning, non‑functional requirements and Continuous Improvement activities using modern agile techniques.
  • Implementing robust security controls and monitoring solutions across infrastructure and application components.
  • Making effective decisions within fast‑moving delivery environments.
• Significant expertise in:
  • Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting modern digital service platforms in production environments.
  • Utilising the latest Continuous Delivery techniques for releasing operationally ready software to production.
  • Use of automation tooling and proficient in one of the following:
    Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy.
  • Using public cloud platforms – including SaaS or PaaS offerings – to solve business problems (AWS or Azure).
• Demonstrable experience in:
  • Using the latest container…