Technical Architect

Summary

Join Amber Labs, a cutting-edge technology consultancy, as a Technical Architect working remotely with occasional office visits in Newcastle. You will lead technical design, ensuring high quality and adherence to architecture principles. Collaborate with agile teams to create cost-effective solutions and implement approved designs. Responsibilities include identifying and sharing architecture patterns, creating solution options, making technology choices, and contributing to a positive digital culture. This role requires bridging technical and non-technical communication, demonstrating technical breadth and systems design expertise, understanding constraints, and translating business problems into technical designs. Amber Labs offers various benefits, including private medical insurance, a company pension plan, generous annual leave, access to Perkbox, an employee referral program, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• Bridging the gap between technical and non-technical - Able to listen to the needs of the technical and business stakeholders and interpret between them. Capable of proactive and reactive communication
• Technical breadth - Has a deep understanding of the technical concepts required in their role and understands how these fit into the wider technical landscape. Understands the limitations of digital technology
• Systems Design - Designs systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity. Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures they are applied effectively. Reviews the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology
• Understanding Constraints - Works with and challenges senior stakeholders. Can prioritise and mitigate constraints, and can turn them into an advantage. Is able to adapt the approach depending on the constraints
• Turning business problems into technical designs - Designs technical solutions by dealing with problems that span different business areas. Works across multiple services or a single large or complicated service. Draws links between problems in order to reach common solutions
• Prototyping - Sees prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. Establishes design patterns and iterates them. Knows a variety of methods of prototyping and chooses the most appropriate ones. Knows how to version and host a prototype
• API and Event Based architecture design patterns, including pub-sub and data streaming
• Architecting events based architecture across multiple data centres and public clouds
• API Gateway and micro-gateway patterns and capabilities such as traffic control, security, logging, monitoring and authentication e.g. Kong API Gateway
• Agile/DevOps delivery methodologies and best practice
• Microservice and API-Led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice
• Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools and best practice
• COTS, Relational databases

Responsibilities

• Lead, deliver and support technical design of a product or part of a shared platform to meet user needs and business objectives
• Lead on ensuring high quality of technical design, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles and roadmaps
• Build relationships and work collaboratively with Digital professions in agile delivery teams to create VFM solution designs that meet user needs
• Engage with Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Lead Solution Architects and engineering teams to implement the solutions according to agreed and approved architecture designs
• Deliver product solutions and be accountable for product architecture in alignment with engineering
• Identify, capture, share and iterate architecture patterns to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture
• Implement architecture patterns creating reference architectures as real-world working examples of successful architecture design
• Create solution options and recommendations - during project discovery and inception phases to drive decision making on best solution design
• Make technology choices for products in conjunction with the enterprise architecture blueprint, contributing to the update of technology policies where appropriate
• Contribute to building an inclusive digital culture within the department

Benefits

• Receive private medical insurance through Aviva
• Enjoy the benefits of a company pension plan through Nest
• 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays
• Access Perkbox, a global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources
• Participate in a generous employee referral program
• A highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement
• Be encouraged to take bold steps and embrace a mindset of experimentation
• Choose your preferred device, PC or Mac
• Join a rapidly expanding start-up where personal growth is a part of our DNA
• Benefit from a flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes