Technical Architect - Contract

Our client, a renowned fitness brand, has been recognized as one of the top 50 places to work by Glassdoor. With prestigious awards for best flexible working and mental health support, the company fosters a culture of innovation, creativity, and collaboration. Working in their stimulating environment is not only rewarding but also fuels passion for driving success and contributing to a healthier, happier world. They are currently seeking a Technical Architect to join their exceptional Product and Engineering team on a contract basis, which can be on a 6-month fixed-term contract or a 3-month day rate basis.

Responsibilities:

As Technical Architect you will be responsible for delivering an appropriate technical design for a project, with a prioritised backlog of user stories and engineering tasks, as needed to implement the design. Your valuable input will be instrumental in achieving the goal of becoming an industry-leading, fully headless, cloud-native, and always-available architecture.

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Produce documented Solution Architecture
• Produce documented message sequence diagrams and design system artifacts as appropriate.
• Produce a documented set of non-functional requirements.
• Run and deliver workshops to ensure that development teams understand the final solution.
• Strongly advocate for cutting-edge tools and practices while maintaining a practical approach to address legacy systems' challenges.

The successful candidate should be a highly skilled technologist with a talent for producing clear documentation and design artefacts, along with strong expertise in cloud technologies. Their experience includes internet facing cloud systems, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, SQL Server or other databases and APM tools. Additionally, they will have recent experience of designing distributed applications and event driven systems and have a strong background in modern web application development practices. The role would suit someone with the experience and gravitas of a Software Architect, Infrastructure or Cloud Architect.

Whilst this contract would be on a hybrid basis, the expectation would be to work from the Croydon office once or twice per month as required.