Technical Architects

Aker Systems
Sefton, United Kingdom
9 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Remote
Sefton, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Data analysis
Azure
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Security
Computer Security
Continuous Integration
Software Design Documents
DevOps
Open Source Technology
Commercial Software
SAP HANA
Software Systems
Data Streaming
Google Cloud Platform
SC Clearance
Data Lake
Kubernetes
Data Management
Cloud Migration
Docker

Job description

Aker Managing Architect is primarily a client delivery, management, and growth role, expected to be 90% or more of the time across one or more client assignments.

  • Technical Leadership: Part of the client leadership team as the Client CTO for assigned projects/services, supporting the Client Delivery Director, Client Account Director and the delivery team to ensure we deliver against all client deliverables and payment milestones.
  • Lead Architect: Lead solution, data, cloud, service and security architects/engineers during design and delivery projects and services, and responsible for delivering design documents and other key artefacts to support governance and delivery.
  • Senior Influencer: Need to be a leader and able to influence through excellent communication skills. You will relish collaboration and embrace challenges. You will understand the nuances of business and be driven to find new solutions for our clients' biggest problems.
  • Team-Focused: Expected to build effective working relationships with delivery team members and Aker customers and operate without supervision as the technical lead across multiple projects and platforms and mentoring less-experienced client team members as required.
  • Capability and Growth: Aker is a fast-growing business, so for any remaining % of time when not on client work, it is contributing to the future success of Aker by helping develop capabilities and supporting the other functions such as Sales and Product, and always looking to help grow existing accounts., At Aker we work as a team; we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help to solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion., A leading consulting firm is seeking a Strategic Sales & Bid Director to support their Public Sector Pensions team. Responsible for driving strategy for securing large deals, this role demands strong stakeholder management and effective collaboration across teams. Ideal..., Our Principal Technical Architects are responsible for leading and delivering strategically significant, complex client engagements across our portfolio of clients. We believe that great delivery stems from a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs, strong...

Requirements

The applicant who possesses knowledge and experience of Public Sector (Central Government) and understands their governance and security processes, preferably across multiple government departments, is strongly preferred.

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don't hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. Due to the nature of the projects, British citizenship is required., The successful candidate will need to have experience as a lead or managing architect across these core areas:

  • Delivery - designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, particularly in streaming and cloud-native solutions.
  • Data Platforms - designing modern data platforms with appropriate architecture covering Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Data Lake etc.
  • Data/Analytics - solving enterprise data and analytics problems using technology
  • Cloud - hands-on Public Cloud experience in either AWS/Azure/Google, both their 'services' and 'how' to work in the cloud such as DevOps-centric approach
  • Security - having worked in sensitive data environments and ideally have experience facing off to cyber security specialists.

The successful candidate will meet all of the following essential criteria:

  • Demonstrable experience in designing large scale cloud migration projects/programmes with open source and commercial software within AWS, Azure, GCP or hybrid
  • Experience in operating within a multi-disciplined team and clearly communicating complex technology solutions to technical and non-technical people
  • Experience designing event processing and async messaging architectures
  • Experience applying latest technologies to solve complex problems and to develop innovative data and analytical solutions
  • Working knowledge of cloud orchestration and containerisation technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Working knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code
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Benefits & conditions

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About the company

Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations. In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a 'One to Watch' on the Sunday Times Tech Track. The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories. We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work. As Managing Architect, you will be passionate about digital, data and technology-led transformation, unlocking innovation for our clients, and providing leadership throughout the client engagements., D365 CE Solutions Architect Up to £115k + Bonus Enterprise benefits London, Birmingham or Leeds + Majority Remote The Company... We are proud to partner with a global system integrator and leading Microsoft GSI partner about to undertake what will arguably be UK's..., General Manager / Sales Director Dahlia Recruitment - Life Sciences are partnered with a rapidly growing Medical Device company to recruit for a General Manager / Sales Director to achieve Strategic Business Goals through Sales, operational oversight, financial management..., At SPD Technology, we bring together a team of like-minded people who are driven by the desire to bring value through their work, united in their commitment to high performance and delivering custom, cutting-edge tech solutions that drive clients' growth. We empower our..., Join to apply for the Chief Revenue Officer role at Canonical 3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Join to apply for the Chief Revenue Officer role at Canonical Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Canonical is a leading provider of open...

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