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CAPABILITY / JOB FAMILY GROUP: Platforms
JOB FAMILY: Platform Architecture
JOB PROFILE TITLE: Platform Technical Architect
MANAGEMENT LEVEL: Consultant
JOB PROFILE DESCRIPTION
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:
As a Platform Technical Architect in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for leading
teams developing high quality solutions on public cloud which delight our customers. As a
technical leader on a project, you’ll work with customer architects to design, automate,
build and support modern digital service platforms, advising on estimated effort and
technical implications of user stories and decisions. It’s a fast-paced environment and
you’ll be trusted to make sound, reasoned decisions as you continually learn and apply
new technologies and approaches with talented colleagues.
Your key responsibilities will include:
• Working as part of a wider team - You’ll provide leadership working alongside
colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security
capabilities to design solutions of the highest quality which meet all non-functional
requirements.
• Using technology for positive impact – You’ll keep appraised of the latest
technologies and ensure we employ them appropriately for maximum user and
business benefit.
• Being objectively opinionated – As a respected voice within Kainos and beyond,
you’ll offer your opinion and critique to improve our solutions. You’ll proactively
share knowledge internally within Kainos and more widely in industry.
• Developing Kainos as a Business – You help Kainos to qualify and win new
opportunities.
• Providing technical leadership – You’ll provide technical leadership on delivery and
support projects which may sometimes require you to be hands-on and to take
difficult, but necessary decisions.
• Being a role model – You’ll support your colleagues and foster a DevOps culture in
all that you do by embodying the Kainos values. You’ll be the person people look
up to – people trust your decisions because they are transparent and justified. You’ll
be passionate and committed to ensuring Kainos projects are successful.
• Putting people first & developing others – You’ll manage, coach and develop a
small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and
assisting in their career development. You’ll also provide direction and leadership
for your colleagues as you solve challenging problems together.
• Being Adaptable – You’ll mould yourself to customer engagements and stretch to
learn new skills as needs arise; through this you’ll be supported by talented
colleagues across Learning & Development and Architecture.
MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to simply and
clearly communicate technical design in conversation, documentation and
presentation to a technical and non-technical audience.
• We all work in teams here in Kainos – You’ll need a proven experience of team
leadership and supporting a DevOps culture in delivering complex projects.
• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in
managing, coaching and developing junior members of your team and wider
community.
• Demonstrable personal ownership of:
o Building and operating modern digital service platform (or significant
portions thereof) including architecture, estimation, planning, non-functional
requirements and Continuous Improvement activities using modern agile
techniques.
o Implementing robust security controls and monitoring solutions across
infrastructure and application components.
o Making effective decisions within fast-moving delivery environments.
• Significant expertise in:
o Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting modern
digital service platforms in production environments.
o Utilizing the latest Continuous Delivery techniques for releasing operationally
ready software to production.
o Use of automation tooling and proficient in one of the following: Powershell,
Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy.
o Using public cloud platforms - including SaaS or PaaS offerings - to solve
business problems (AWS or Azure).
• Demonstrable experience in:
o Using the latest container orchestration platforms including Kubernetes.
o Applying configuration management, infrastructure
provisioning and automation tooling to solve business problems.
DESIRABLE
• Third level – or equivalent - qualification in a related discipline.
• Obtained certification with a public cloud provider (AWS/Azure).
• Obtained certification relating to a particular area of specialisation e.g. Kubernetes
CKAD.
• Experience of Cloud Native Tooling and Approaches.
• Active participation in both internal and external communities of practice.
WHO YOU ARE:
Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive
impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect
from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to
display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when
dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to
complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience.
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