Job Description
Pre Sales Application Architect
Basingstoke/hybrid (once per week on site)
£65k plus 15% bonus, £6k car allowance and 10% DV Bonus
SC and DV Security Clearance is required for this role.
I am looking for a Pre Sales Application Architect for a client of mine who are a leading IT Systems Integrator operating within the UK defence sector. You will be responsible for the creation of design artefacts that enable the provision of Applications using industry standard methodologies. You will work closely with Solution Owners and Project Managers to ensure that solutions are in-line with approved designs and meet the customer requirements.
If you have a handful of the below skills / experience, we would love to discuss this role with you further.
Transferable skills and experience:
General
* Design Modelling, ideally with Archimate (BizzDesign preferred)
* Requirements Modelling / Capture techniques such as User Stories and Use Cases.
* AWS General / Usage
* Azure Cloud General / Usage
* VMWare General/Usage
* Technical Leadership & Design
* DevSecOps tooling and practices
* Application Security Testing
* SAFe (scaled agile) Processes
Data Integration Focused
* Data Pipeline Orchestration, and ELT tooling such as Apache Airflow, Apark, NiFi, Airbyte and Singer.
* Message Brokers, streaming data processors, such as Apache Kafka
* Object Storage, such as S3, MinIO, LakeFS
* CI/CD Pipeline, Integration, ideally Azure DevOps
* Python Scripting
* API Management Solutions
Automation Key Skills
Experience in the Design / Configuration / Usage in a number of the following –
* Low-code Platforms, such as Power Platform, Appian, UiPath, Blue Prism
* RPA and Automation solutions
* Experience in Business Process Analysis
* Software, Applications, APIs
Apps Design and Integration Key Skills
Experience in the Design / Configuration / Usage in a number of the following –
* Software / API / Web Design and Development
* Database Design and Data Modelling
* Architectural Patterns such as OO, Cloud-native and Microservices.
* Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium / Robot Framework
DevSecOps Key Skills
Experience in the Design / Configuration / Usage in a number of the following –
* CI/CD Pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps
* IaC code tooling, including Terraform, Ansible, Harbor
* SCA/IAST/DAST tooling, e.g. Black Duck, Coverity, Codesight, JFrog, Snyk
* Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium / Robot Framework
* Test Management Tooling ideally Azure Test Plans
* Secure Secrets Management, ideally Azure DevOps and Hashicorp Vault