Senior Solutions Architect

Location:
Isleworth
Job Type:
Permanent
Industry:
Digital Workspace
Job reference:
BBBH146230_1635265144
Posted:
over 2 years ago

Senior Solutions Architect

Want to do the best work of your life? This is an exciting position for an experienced Solutions Architect to join one of Europe's leading media and entertainment brands. With over 24 million customers in 6 countries, you'll have the opportunity make your mark within a truly exciting and technology driven environment.

You will be reporting to the Head of Architecture within the Content Broadcast and Platforms department part of the Engineering area. In this role, you will be accountable for the definition of solution designs which balance the needs of the business with the evolution of the technical landscape.

This team uses the latest tech to create, process and distribute the best entertainment. They are a unique blend of talent covering both engineering and operations with more than 2500 people across Europe and connect customers to more of what they love all day, every day. You'll be joining a proactive, forward-thinking, and collaborative team setting the standard for excellent innovation.

What you'll do:

  • Working with business leaders at an ideas stage to ensure they are aware of how technology can help them meet their business challenges, including supporting the product streams in the maintenance and construction of their roadmaps.
  • Creating and delivering innovative end-to-end solution designs that are cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, secure, cost-effective, multi-tenant, highly responsive, scalable, highly available, and resilient.
  • Ensuring solution designs align with prevailing technology strategy, and the relevant technology and corporate policies (such as cyber security, data management and retention, etc.).
  • Supporting delivery teams with aligning to department technical strategy and technical governance processes.
  • Facilitating the resolution of conflicted architectural decisions and mitigating key technical risks across delivery teams; providing rapid feedback and transparency in the key architectural and technical decisions process.
  • Providing expertise on Open-Source tools and systems and thought leadership around DevOps practices.
  • Articulating and evangelising the overall mission & vision of the department, and best practices to help spread acceptance within the delivery teams.

What you'll bring:

  • Previous experience of working within large enterprise organisations
  • Hands on, demonstrable experience in designing complex solutions using cutting edge IT technology and software. This must span the software engineering and systems engineering aspects of the technology, being up to date in the emerging trends as detailed in the Technology and Standards Appendix.
  • Understanding and delivery experience of building public-cloud and hybrid-cloud compute, containers and serverless architectures.
  • Experience of using DevOps software development methods within the IT, Media & Entertainment or Telecoms industries to deliver iterative solutions.
  • Demonstrable track record in software engineering working within a software delivery organisation.

Benefits

  • A generous pension package
  • Private healthcare
  • Discounted mobile and broadband
  • Be part of an organisation recognised as an 'Inclusive Top 50 Employer' and a 'Times Top 50 Employer for Women'
  • Six subsidised restaurants on site
  • A subsidised gym and private cinema

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