Job Description

Posted 4 weeks ago

Our client, a renowned fitness brand, has been recognized as one of the top 50 places to work by Glassdoor. With prestigious awards for best flexible working and mental health support, the company fosters a culture of innovation, creativity, and collaboration. Working in their stimulating environment is not only rewarding but also fuels passion for driving success and contributing to a healthier, happier world. They are currently seeking a Technical Architect to join their exceptional Product and Engineering team.
Responsibilities:
As Technical Architect you will be responsible for hands-on engineering where your expertise in web, cloud, and data technologies will be put to the test, tackling fascinating challenges. Your valuable input will be instrumental in achieving the goal of becoming an industry-leading, fully headless, cloud-native, and always-available architecture. Collaborating with Product, Engineering, Platform, and Site Reliability teams, you will be the subject matter expert in Digital and Azure Cloud Engineering, you'll guide the company towards architectural best practices while balancing cutting-edge tools with a practical approach to legacy systems.
Duties will include, but are not limited to:
* Actively participate in engineering tasks and solutions, applying expertise in web, cloud, and data technologies to address various challenges.
* Play a key role in driving the transition to an industry-leading, fully cloud-native, and always-available architecture, leveraging your extensive experience in Azure cloud technologies.
* Work closely with Product, Engineering, Platform, and Site Reliability teams to maintain the platform and applications roadmap. Foster collaboration and ensure alignment between different teams.
* Maintain a strategic vision for the technology landscape and guide the development cycle towards the desired target architecture.
* Strongly advocate for cutting-edge tools and practices while maintaining a practical approach to address legacy systems' challenges.
The successful candidate should be a highly skilled technologist with a talent for producing clear documentation and design artefacts, along with strong expertise in cloud technologies. Their experience includes internet facing cloud systems, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, SQL Server or other databases and APM tools. Additionally, they are proficient in programming or scripting languages like C#, JavaScript/TS, bash, PowerShell, or python, and have a strong background in modern web application development practices. The role would suit someone with the experience and gravitas of a Lead Software Developer, looking to build their career in the direction of architecture. Those with a background as a Lead Engineer, Lead Developer, Lead DevOps or Technical Lead with solid experience of software design, should feel strongly encouraged to apply