Technology Architect, Principal
DMW Group, United Kingdom
Job Description
The Opportunity
Are you a passionate and experienced technologist with a track record of transforming organisations through technology? You thrive on tackling large, complex challenges, where technology cuts across all dimensions of a business. It’s not only about your ability to set out clear strategy and handle the intricacies of executing it: it’s about what you can contribute to the growth of our world-class architecture practice. It’s about the freedom you get to shape your career in a small, independent firm.
As a Principal Architect at DMW you will be responsible for everything from setting out high-level strategy through designing and delivering modern technology solutions for our clients. You will design end-state architectures, transition states and roadmaps at a project and portfolio level while ensuring these align with strategic objectives, requirements and industry trends. You will work with delivery and engineering teams to deliver architectures, diving down to the lowest level of detail as appropriate to ensure success.
At other times, you will be using your experience and broad knowledge of trends in technology and industry to form a viewpoint for a client in the shape of an assurance report or a proposal. You will use your stakeholder management skills and understanding of senior dynamics to influence executives and leadership teams towards achieving the best outcome for their business.
You will often be the first port of call for organisations experiencing a critical technical or architectural issue, will need to familiarise yourself with unfamiliar technologies at pace, and recommend appropriate urgent interventions.
We’re growing fast, so we’re looking for people who thrive on developing and nurturing others, while continuing to build their own expertise and maintaining our collaborative culture.
Here’s what you will do
As a Principal Architect at DMW you will be responsible for everything from setting out high-level strategy through designing and delivering modern technology solutions for our clients. You will design end-state architectures, transition states and roadmaps at a project and portfolio level while ensuring these align with strategic objectives, requirements and industry trends. You will work with delivery and engineering teams to deliver architectures, diving down to the lowest level of detail as appropriate to ensure success.
At other times, you will be using your experience and broad knowledge of trends in technology and industry to form a viewpoint for a client in the shape of an assurance report or a proposal. You will use your stakeholder management skills and understanding of senior dynamics to influence executives and leadership teams towards achieving the best outcome for their business.
You will often be the first port of call for organisations experiencing a critical technical or architectural issue, will need to familiarise yourself with unfamiliar technologies at pace, and recommend appropriate urgent interventions.
We’re growing fast, so we’re looking for people who thrive on developing and nurturing others, while continuing to build their own expertise and maintaining our collaborative culture.
Hours
This is a permanent role within our Technology function. We consider flexible ways of working that allow the best outcomes for our people and clients. Working closely with our clients is key to successful outcomes, with opportunity to travel across the UK and Internationally.
Requirements
- Experience leading teams of architects in delivery of complex multi-m value solutions, or portfolios in mixed green/brown-field environments
- Technically minded, pragmatic, and passionate about technology evidenced through ongoing experience in hands-on building, prototyping and orienteering of new technology
- An understanding of the current technology drivers, trends and concerns that impact business, industry and society today
- Experience of client facing roles where you have built relationships with executive and leadership stakeholders, conducted workshops and shown ability to influence others through a mixture of technical expertise, emotional intelligence and political awareness
- Experience as a client-facing technology architect, able to help our clients assess their current technology maturity and shape a comprehensive, end-to-end digital blueprint and technology roadmap, taking into account organisational, commercial and funding considerations
- Experience working in ambiguous environments, judiciously removing ambiguity to achieve impact Deep, up-to-date experience across a number of technical domains/paradigms (e.g. cloud, microservice), alongside a firm grasp of IT and technology fundamentals
- Able to bring to bear knowledge of architectural patterns, technology components, vend