Solutions Architect
Hybrid / Dublin City Centre
1
Negotiable
Ref: E18112SD
Job Description
My client is looking to hire an IT Solution Architect to work with our Digital Business on an initial 6 month daily rate contract with a view to extension.
Job Responsibilities
Reporting to Senior IT Architect, the focus areas for this role are:
- Responsible for the architecture of the digital estate; supporting the evolution of the Architecture and the migration to the Cloud (MS Azure PaaS).
- Ensure compliance of solution architectural designs with the target architecture and relevant policies, such as security or change management
- Closely works with all areas of IT and project teams to serve as the central point of communication for all decisions / questions around the architecture of the digital systems.
- Liaise with business representatives to understand and support both the business strategy and the short-term needs of business
- Support and enforce the Architecture governance process and is responsible for the production and quality of the key artefacts.
- Support the implementation of the Cloud strategy and the compliance with Group binding principles.
- Support the transition of IT to Agile methodologies.
- Assess new technologies or alternate options by conducting proof of concept style investigations
- Conduct reviews of existing solutions and identifies risks and potential improvements (e.g. cost, efficiency or simplification)
- Engages with third parties where required
Experience Required
- Design of reliable, scalable, secure production web sites
- Cloud concepts
- Microsoft product stack (.NET and associated languages and frameworks, MS-Azure, VSTS,…)
- Modern Web technologies, e.g.
- Web apps on Azure
- Common JS frameworks: React, Angular, JQuery,.
- Bonus: Android or iOS apps
- Security concepts (encryption, authentication, firewalls,), and mitigation of security threats (injection, DoS)
- Service oriented and microservices architectures (ideally in a C# environment)
- Architecture templates and concepts
- Desirable:
- Databases (relational), plus Common persistence frameworks for .NET: Entity Framework
- Non-relational databases: e.g. NoSQL, document, key-value, graph
- Big Data technologies, R, Python, Spark,
- Network / infrastructure
- TOGAF
Educational Requirements
Relevant 3rd level qualification
Working Hours & Benefits
40 Hour Working Week
