Technical Architect; AWS and Microservices

About the Job you are considering:

We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect to provide technical leadership for a mature enterprise application landscape supporting ongoing operations maintenance enhancements and modernization initiatives

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

The role will be responsible for ensuring platform stability driving continuous improvement governing architecture decisions supporting production operations and enabling delivery teams to implement business and technical changes efficiently and securely

The successful candidate will act as the technology leader across application support enhancement delivery cloud operations Dev Sec Ops  practices and longterm technology roadmap planning.

AWS and microservices experience in Mandatory

• Own the overall application architecture and technical roadmap
• Ensure architectural integrity across production non-production and integration environments
• Review and approve solution designs for enhancements change requests and platform upgrades
• Drive technology simplification standardization and technical debt reduction
• Establish and enforce architecture principles standards and engineering best practices
• Provide technical guidance to delivery and support teams

• Support stable operation of business critical applications
• Lead analysis of recurring production issues and identify strategic remediation opportunities
• Drive platform improvements focused on reliability performance maintainability and operational efficiency
• Evaluate and recommend modernization opportunities for legacy components
• Ensure sustainable support models and operational readiness across environments

• Provide architectural guidance during major incidents and problem investigations
• Review root cause analyses and ensure implementation of permanent fixes
• Support incident problem and change management processes
• Ensure application availability resilience disaster recovery and business continuity requirements are met
• Drive proactive monitoring observability alerting and operational automation initiatives

• Partner with business and product stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Support estimation impact assessments and solution planning for enhancements
• Ensure new functionality aligns with architectural standards and nonfunctional requirements
• Govern release readiness and deployment strategies

• Lead cloud architecture reviews and platform optimization initiatives
• Guide infrastructure upgrades platform migrations and service improvements
• Drive implementation of cloud native practices where appropriate
• Ensure platforms are secure scalable resilient and cost efficient

• Champion Dev Sec Ops  culture and automation first practices
• Improve CICD maturity deployment reliability and release automation
• Promote secure software development practices
• Drive adoption of automated testing code quality controls and engineering metrics
• Enable continuous improvement through measurable engineering outcomes

• Ensure architecture complies with organizational security and compliance standards
• Participate in security reviews threat assessments and vulnerability remediation planning
• Support audit governance and regulatory requirements
• Establish securitybydesign principles across the application lifecycle

• Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level
  2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.
  
  As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
• Please opt in during the application process.

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