Technical Architect
Location:
Newcastle upon Tyne Work Pattern:
Remote with 1x a month in Newcastle office Security Clearance:
BPSS The Company: At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff. The Role: As a Technical Architect you will: Work with engineering teams, supporting the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of IT products and services. Share your knowledge and experience, blending technical knowledge, architecture, and development skills. Bring a breadth of understanding across a range of technical domains and depth of experience in at least one domain or specialism. Key Responsibilities: Lead, deliver, and support technical design of a product or part of a shared platform to meet user needs and business objectives. Ensure high quality of technical design, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles and roadmaps. Build relationships and work collaboratively with digital professions in agile delivery teams to create VFM solution designs that meet user needs. Engage with Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Lead Solution Architects, and engineering teams to implement solutions according to agreed and approved architecture designs. Deliver product solutions and be accountable for product architecture in alignment with engineering. Identify, capture, share, and iterate architecture patterns to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture. Implement architecture patterns creating reference architectures as real-world working examples of successful architecture design. Create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases to drive decision making on best solution design. Make technology choices for products in conjunction with the enterprise architecture blueprint, contributing to the update of technology policies where appropriate. Contribute to building an inclusive digital culture within the department. Requirements: Bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders; capable of proactive and reactive communication. Technical breadth with a deep understanding of the technical concepts required in the role and how these fit into the wider technical landscape. Systems Design: Designs systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. Understanding Constraints: Works with and challenges senior stakeholders, prioritising and mitigating constraints. Turning business problems into technical designs across multiple services or a single large service. Prototyping: Sees prototyping as a team activity, establishing design patterns and iterating them. Technical Skills: API and Event-Based architecture design patterns, including pub-sub and data streaming. Architecting events-based architecture across multiple data centres and public clouds. API Gateway and micro-gateway patterns and capabilities such as traffic control, security, logging, monitoring, and authentication (e.g., Kong API Gateway). Agile/DevOps delivery methodologies and best practices. Microservice and API-Led architecture and integration design tools, techniques, and best practices. Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools, and best practices. COTS, Relational databases. Benefits: Join a rapidly expanding start-up where personal growth is a part of our DNA. Benefit from a flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes. Receive private medical insurance through Aviva. Enjoy the benefits of a company pension plan through Nest. 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays. Access Perkbox, a global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources. Participate in a generous employee referral program. A highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement. Be encouraged to take bold steps and embrace a mindset of experimentation. Choose your preferred device, PC or Mac. Diversity & Inclusion: Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes: Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees. Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation. Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies. What Happens Next? Our Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants, which may include a third and final stage if deemed necessary.
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Newcastle upon Tyne Work Pattern:
Remote with 1x a month in Newcastle office Security Clearance:
BPSS The Company: At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff. The Role: As a Technical Architect you will: Work with engineering teams, supporting the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of IT products and services. Share your knowledge and experience, blending technical knowledge, architecture, and development skills. Bring a breadth of understanding across a range of technical domains and depth of experience in at least one domain or specialism. Key Responsibilities: Lead, deliver, and support technical design of a product or part of a shared platform to meet user needs and business objectives. Ensure high quality of technical design, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles and roadmaps. Build relationships and work collaboratively with digital professions in agile delivery teams to create VFM solution designs that meet user needs. Engage with Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Lead Solution Architects, and engineering teams to implement solutions according to agreed and approved architecture designs. Deliver product solutions and be accountable for product architecture in alignment with engineering. Identify, capture, share, and iterate architecture patterns to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture. Implement architecture patterns creating reference architectures as real-world working examples of successful architecture design. Create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases to drive decision making on best solution design. Make technology choices for products in conjunction with the enterprise architecture blueprint, contributing to the update of technology policies where appropriate. Contribute to building an inclusive digital culture within the department. Requirements: Bridging the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders; capable of proactive and reactive communication. Technical breadth with a deep understanding of the technical concepts required in the role and how these fit into the wider technical landscape. Systems Design: Designs systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. Understanding Constraints: Works with and challenges senior stakeholders, prioritising and mitigating constraints. Turning business problems into technical designs across multiple services or a single large service. Prototyping: Sees prototyping as a team activity, establishing design patterns and iterating them. Technical Skills: API and Event-Based architecture design patterns, including pub-sub and data streaming. Architecting events-based architecture across multiple data centres and public clouds. API Gateway and micro-gateway patterns and capabilities such as traffic control, security, logging, monitoring, and authentication (e.g., Kong API Gateway). Agile/DevOps delivery methodologies and best practices. Microservice and API-Led architecture and integration design tools, techniques, and best practices. Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools, and best practices. COTS, Relational databases. Benefits: Join a rapidly expanding start-up where personal growth is a part of our DNA. Benefit from a flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes. Receive private medical insurance through Aviva. Enjoy the benefits of a company pension plan through Nest. 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays. Access Perkbox, a global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources. Participate in a generous employee referral program. A highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement. Be encouraged to take bold steps and embrace a mindset of experimentation. Choose your preferred device, PC or Mac. Diversity & Inclusion: Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes: Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees. Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation. Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies. What Happens Next? Our Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants, which may include a third and final stage if deemed necessary.
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