Senior Solutions Architect

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We have an outstanding opportunity available for a Senior Architect within our Technology division, working closely with key stakeholders across our entire business. The role will be placed within our Architecture team and work with our development teams to deliver innovative and high-quality technology solutions.

This is an outstanding career opportunity within a market-leading global business. We have a supportive culture, with a keen focus on innovation, technical excellence, career development and a desire to continually improve. The ideal candidate would be someone who can work with various stakeholders within technology, product, data science, and can think from a “customer first” perspective. They should thrive on business and technical transformation, solving complex problems, and be capable of mastering a large and complex technology estate consisting of the latest and greatest in technologies as well as legacy systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working with our Product team to help build the vision and translate that vision into deliverable solutions.
• Creating high level designs for technical solutions.
• Identifying common patterns and reuse opportunities.
• Researching and investigating new technologies.
• Providing guidance and decision support to development teams during implementation.

Required skills and experience

• 10+ years of experience in software, network, or systems architecture
• 5+ years of cross-entity product architecture experience with proven track record of successful enterprise impacts
• BS Engineering/Computer Science + advanced degree or equivalent experience required
• Master level knowledge in architectural design and knowledge of architectural governance.
• Proven experience of leading complex projects and customer relationships.
• Deep understanding of programming languages, coding, and development best practices with extensive software development experience using C# or Java.
• Extensive experience with Sql and NoSql database technologies such as SqlServer, Postgres, MySql, MongoDB, MarkLogic, etc.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing event-driven service-oriented and microservice architectures. Kafka experience is especially desirable.
• Proven ability to work with external vendors to understand/communicate vendor technology strategy in the context of our architecture, as well as future engineering architectural strategies.
• Solid working knowledge in Networking and Infrastructure Architecture.
• Solid working knowledge with DevOps, automated deployments, containerisation and orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes)
• Experience in designing and implementing cloud native and serverless solutions using AWS or Azure.
• Advanced organization/project planning, time management, and change management.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and customer service skills. Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills applicable to a wide audience including senior and executive management, customers, etc.
• Strong ability to develop architectural business cases tied to enterprise strategy.
• Strong research skills.

· Experience working in an Agile environment.

Desirable skills:

Experience with both Windows and Linux operating systems.

Experience in MarkLogic and/or MongoDB database experience.

Experience in creating Data Lakes and Data Warehouses.

Experience using Kafka.

Experience in creating micro-front end architectures.

Machine learning, AI, big data, and Data Science experience.

So who are RBI and ICIS?

ICIS is part of Reed Business Information (RBI); we use leading edge technology to deliver market leading information and online data services to business professionals worldwide. Customers have access to our high-value industry data, analytics, information and tools. Our strong global brands hold market-leading positions across a wide range of industry sectors including banking, petrochemicals and aviation where we help customers make key strategic decisions every day.

RBI people are driven by an environment focussed on innovation, passion for our products, and collaboration - where working in an agile manner is par for the course. RBI is part of RELX, a FTSE100 global provider of data, information and solutions for professional customers; RELX has recently been ranked by Forbes as #53 in their Top-2000 Global Employers.

How important is technology to ICIS?

Technology is a central part of the ICIS business. The technology team provides the online products and systems to collect and distribute ICIS data to our global audience. We also create innovative sources of new insight – for example modelling of power demands, processing of European gas flows or tracking/predicting in real-time worldwide ship movements. We use modern technologies, work almost exclusively in the cloud and focus on agile development approaches.

What’s it like to work here?

Outstanding - you’ve probably already got a feel for what we do and the technology we’re involved with but what differentiates us from the crowd is our culture. We’re an agile, dynamic and forward thinking organisation who understand the importance of looking after our staff. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products, providing our employees with interesting challenges for their personal and career development whilst also striking the right balance between work and family life.

And what about your career?

Career development is important to us and we take our personal development plan (PDP) process very seriously; we want you to learn and progress quickly in the direction you want to go and we will provide you with the training and support to achieve that at the right pace. Career wise our company is made up of many leading online businesses so you can develop in three dimensions, vertically through the business, across different brands, and across different functions (if you fancy a change). We’re an increasingly international business and are often able to offer overseas opportunities either as secondments or on a permanent basis.

RBI is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Women in Technology:

RBI is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 24% of our Technology workforce are women, this is much higher than the UK average of 17%.

We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:

• Mentoring scheme for women in technology.
• Women’s network forum.
• Regularly run events for school girls, related to careers in technology, inspiring the next generation of girls in tech.

RBI proudly support the Tech Talent Charter. Click on the link to find out more: http://www.techtalentcharter.co.uk/