Input Output is hiring a
Technical Architect in United Kingdom

Summary

The Technical Architect at IOG is responsible for making technical decisions for products, designing solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements, providing technical leadership to development teams, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to turn user needs into technical requirements. They must have a deep technical understanding of problems and solution spaces, support agile software development practices, and ensure that recommended software engineering principles are followed.

Requirements

• A Degree in Computer Science/Engineering
• A minimum of 5 years of industrial/commercial development
• A minimum of 3 years as technical architect
• A minimum of 3 years as leader of a software development team
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms
• Experience working together with scientists, researchers and formal methods specialists
• Proven aptitude in: Writing and Oral Communication, Organization, Problem-solving

Responsibilities

• Take ownership and accountability for the technical decisions of a product
• Design solutions (products, components, features, libraries, ...) that satisfy functional and non-functional requirements
• Provide technical leadership and oversight to development teams
• Collaborate with the Product Owner, technical leads, and researchers to turn user needs into technical requirements
• Support agile software development practices
• Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution
• Provide technical advice in decisions related to work prioritization
• Review acceptance criteria of critical tasks assigned to developers
• Communicate technical details with scientists, researchers, and developers
• Summarize technical details about proposed solutions to management and business decision-makers
• Contribute to the work breakdown and allocation decisions to get the best out of team members
• Ensure that recommended software engineering principles are followed
• Distinguish features and enablers and proactively recommend work on enablers to allow the future implementation of features
• Define subsystems and their interfaces, allocating clear responsibilities to subsystems
• Establish and raise awareness of critical non-functional requirements

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO
• Medical Benefits