Job Description
About Us
Leighton: 30 years and counting. Experienced and agile. Trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands. We develop and deliver custom software. We use technology to make money, save money, create efficiencies, integrate systems, solve problems. To help our customers thrive. We have a pool of talent. To manage projects. Test to high standards. Create user experiences for every type of user. We include, include, include. Our service is personal. We know your name. We can do amazing things with tech. We’ve got the talent. We decide what is best for our customer together.
Our Values
The Leighton culture defines how we do business and how we interact with our colleagues and customers. It makes us unique and provides us with a competitive advantage
* We act with honesty and truth, always!
* We collaborate to bring our purpose to life in a caring and supportive way
* We nurture our amazing people to be the best version of themselves
* Passionate about what we do, proud of what we achieve
* Our curiosity inspires the amazing
The Role
We’re looking for a Platform Architect to join the team and help us work with our customers to deliver against their roadmap to shape our customers platform architecture and mature their architectural processes and ways of working. Moreover, to serve as a professional consultant to our external partners that may need support with their integrations into the platform.
This role will require you to liaise with the various people within the product community, understanding and influencing product roadmaps at a macro level to ensure that the technical capabilities that we are delivering on the platform for our customers are correctly scoped and prioritised. In addition to, liaising with our customers commercial teams to improve and support new or ongoing customer partner integrations. Whilst improving their existing ways of working.
As such you must be a natural technical leader who is comfortable communicating with and influencing a range of stakeholders including Department Heads, Product Owners, Partner Managers and Technical Leads.
You will also be involved with strategic platform initiatives, providing solution architecture support as required where you will provide technical leadership to customer product teams and their wider business.
Other responsibilities will also include leading architectural best practises for our customers product teams including domain modelling and well architected reviews to drive continuous improvement in the teams as we look to mature their best practises. We're looking for someone with great communication skills who is passionate about what they do, that can bring ideas to the table and help contribute and shape the roadmap for our customer teams.
This is a senior technical role and would suit someone with a strong technical background who has previously worked as a Solutions Architect / Tech Lead. Ideally you would be a:
* Team player with great communication skills, comfortable engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Problem solver who loves a good challenge and can take ownership of an issue through to resolution.
* Self-starter that takes pride in their work, trusted to consistently produce high quality, well documented solutions.
* Innovator, always willing to explore new ideas and try out new technologies.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
* Strong Software Engineering and Architecture background.
* Solid understanding of cloud architectures and design patterns.
* Familiarity with the AWS Well Architected framework.
* Experience with domain modelling best practises.
* Great communication skills, comfortable presenting to technical and non-technical audiences.
* Stakeholder management and the ability to influence at all levels.
* Proficiency at generating high quality technical and non-technical documentation.
* Prior experience working in an agile, product focused organisation.
Behaviours
* An open and genuine communicator
* Able to take responsibility for your actions
* Always learning and wanting to improve
* Takes responsibility for own development
* Love what you do
* Value and support your team
* Embrace who you are
* Open minded and willing to explore new ideas
What We Offer
We value our team and to attract exceptional people, we offer an excellent package! In 2023 we were recognised as one of the Best Workplaces in Tech by Great Place to Work UK, the global authority on workplace culture.
As a Leighton employee you can look forward to:
* A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience.
* A contributory pension scheme
* 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
* A flexible approach to working hours
* Continuous personal development, career path and training
* And more....
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