Principal DevOps Architect

CAPABILITY / JOB FAMILY GROUP: Platforms

JOB FAMILY: Platform Architecture

JOB PROFILE TITLE: Principal Platform Architect

MANAGEMENT LEVEL: Principal

JOB PROFILE DESCRIPTION

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:

As a Principal Platform Architect (Principal) for Kainos, you’ll be accountable for leading

the delivery of cloud platforms and solutions enabling business transformation which

delight our customers and positively impact the lives of users worldwide. As a technologist

you will be inquisitive and will embrace new technology.

You will provide leadership as part of multi-disciplinary agile teams building a shared

understanding of the outcomes the solution must deliver, the technical landscape and

complexity surrounding you and your teams' designs to help teams make informed

decisions.

You’ll foster and build relationships with senior stakeholders to establish architectural

principles, strategic direction of platform being delivered including a firm understanding of

functional and non-functional needs.

You will play a leading role in the Kainos Platforms Capability, driving technology direction

and advancement. You will also guide others in the capability to support their career

journeys, you too will be supported on your career journey, enabling you to achieve your

ambitions.

As a technical leader, you will collaborate with colleagues to establish development of

blueprints and standards, foster customer relationships, contribute to account strategies

and actively share your subject matter knowledge, act as a technology ambassador for

Kainos.

MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS

• Proven experience of leading the delivery of platforms underpinning large scale

cloud transformation (e.g. migration to cloud environments, modernisation of

applications harnessing cloud, deployment of web-based applications).

• You will have experience leading and making technology decisions including

execution of delivery driving positive customer outcomes.

• Experienced in building and fostering relationships with stakeholders including at

executive and C-level senior stakeholders, translating technology information as

appropriate to drive effective decision making.

• Have experience with public cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, GCP (spanning

IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)

• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in

managing, coaching and developing members of your team and wider

community.

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• Have pro-actively developed business across an account with sales and account

managers.

• Experience in managing others, setting objectives, giving feedback and leading

performance reviews.

• Actively sharing thoughts and views on technology.

• Experience of helping to bring challenging projects back on track.

• Previous accountability in creation and promotion of new products or services to

meet the organisational strategy.

• Have participated in technology communities.

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.

These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team

and culture.

ABOUT US

At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big

challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier.

We build strong relationships with our customers and go beyond to change the way they

work today and the impact they have tomorrow.

Our two specialist practices, Digital Services and Workday, work globally for clients across

healthcare, commercial and the public sector to make the world a little bit better, day by

day.

For more information, see kainos.com.