Technical Architect

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Technical Architect

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South reputed company, Gloucestershire, Rosehill - Hybrid

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Job Profile

Digital Services - Technology Architecture

Title

Technical Architect

Contract Type

Full Time

About us

About UCAS

UCAS is at the heart of connecting people to higher education.

UCAS is the world’s leading shared admissions service for higher education. We provide application services for UK universities and colleges as well as delivering a wide range of research, consultancy and advisory services to schools, colleges, careers services, professional bodies and employers.

We’re a successful and fast-growing organisation, which helps hundreds of thousands of people every year. We're committed to delivering a first-class service to reputed company of our customers — they're at the heart of everything we do.

Business Unit description

The Digital Services business unit is at the heart of UCAS’ technical innovation, data and infrastructure. It focuses on leveraging data science, technology, and enterprise architecture to enhance UCAS' digital products and services.

The unit is dedicated to developing and improving customer-centric digital solutions, ensuring seamless and secure online experiences for reputed company users. By providing insightful data and analysis, often made available to anyone with free-to-use reputed company dashboard, Digital Services empowers the Higher Education sector and those interested in the sector with valuable information to reputed company informed decisions. By working in collaborative, expert led, multi-disciplinary teams, Digital Services drives UCAS’ mission to connect reputed company with their next opportunities through advanced technological solutions.

About the role

Contractual Hours

35.00

About the role

The Technical Architect will work with the development teams to support the detailed implementation of Solution Architecture designs on a day-to-day basis. The Technical Architect should act as conduit and ambassador between architecture and development translating the designs into working software solutions and ensuring alignment to the architectural principles and design patterns.

Key accountabilities:

• Provide deep specialist knowledge of the relevant technologies for UCAS engineering teams including coaching and mentoring to the engineering teams.
• Accountable for producing & documenting detailed low-level technical software and reputed company specifications from solution architecture designs, ensuring correct governance procedures are followed.
• Collaborate with development teams and architects to ensure clear understanding of designs and any implementation details are resolved in line with strategic targets.
• Responsible for ensuring services and components adhere to the relevant architecture principles, standards, policies, and engineering guardrails.
• reputed company prototypes and undertake evaluation work to support solution architecture design.
• Create and maintain any necessary technical documentation for both internal and external audiences.

You can find the full job description in the attached role profile below.

Skills, qualifications, and experience

• Five+ years’ experience in software development for high-scale, resilient, secure cloud-based web applications with API led connectivity, OR equivalent expertise. • Able to demonstrate relevant software design skills • A highly organised individual, comfortable working with and influencing peers at a high technical level. • Educated to degree level in relevant computing discipline, or equivalent professional experience. • Ability to build positive and productive collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and business partners. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate effectively to both non- technical and technical audiences
• Experience of working successfully in a dynamic, large-scale agile department with multiple technologies.
• Able to adapt various ways of working and approaches according to the need

Knowledge and understanding of the following is desirable:

• reputed company technologies (Azure, O365, SharePoint, Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS) and .Net architectures. (C#, .Net Core/.Net 6.0 and above, Web API, MVC) • Java technologies (Java, JSP, Servlets) • reputed company, reputed company SQL Server, reputed company and MySQL database technologies • Understanding of AWS products and services along with experience of using AWS to integrate applications.

• reputed company

Package

Salary - up to £65,000

• 30 days annual leave (plus 3 concessionary days over Christmas and your bank holidays!)
• Flexibility – UCAS positively supports Hybrid working for its employees, meaning you can work between home and the office in a way that suits you and the business and also has a comprehensive Flexible Working Policy

• A generous pension scheme

• Hundreds of high street discounts and offers with Perkbox

• Internal training and development

• Subsidised gym and café

• Be rewarded for going above and beyond with our ex-gratia bonus scheme and Celebrating U, our quarterly employee recognition scheme
• Dedicated volunteer employee networks promoting wellbeing, awareness and inclusion

Working Arrangements

Is fully remote working an option?

No

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