Responsibilities:

* Working as part of a high performing team candidates will be responsible for migrating, developing and deploying new Cloud applications for a variety of Defence and Cyber Security Programmes.* Working with well-understood technologies you will translate business visions, goals, objectives and high-level commissioning requirements into system designs and solutions.* You will take ownership of solutioning activities for major opportunities within delivery programmes and manage the solution design process from initial concepts through to transition into operations.* You will own the end to end solution architecture for allocated projects, identifying and engaging all stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams that need to contribute.* You will develop elements of technical strategy, roadmaps and vision that align to board approved business cases, policies and wider Enterprise standards.* You will make design trades and decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity.* You will provide Technical Design Authority and Governance for technical solution architectures for allocated programmes and projects.* You will resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions.* You will maintain effective relationships and deal openly with all key stakeholders, taking into account the needs of all stakeholders.* You will provide technical consultancy for new initiatives, to assist in the definition of business requirements or technical strategies.* You will ensure proposed solutions are aligned with key non-functional requirements relating to, amongst other things, resilience, availability, performance, and scalability.* You will provide hands on leadership to protect scheduling commitments and outcomes.Essentials Skills and Experience:* Skilled in Agile methodologies and tools including Scrum, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence.* Strong experience with Cloud technologies and services (AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform).* Good knowledge of CI/CD practices with Jenkins, GitLab and/or GitHub* IaC development with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible and/or Puppet.* Good knowledge of container technologies and orchestration engines Docker / Rocket Kubernetes / OpenShift.* Knowledge and/or experience with Zero Trust and Micro Services Architectures.* Proficient in Java and other languages such as Python.* Experience in full-stack system design.* Experience in testing frameworks.* Experience in developing on Linux and/or Windows platform development.* Experience with Oracle Relational Databases and Mongo.* Designing solutions that fit within business and technical constraints.* Familiarity with DevOps and DevSecOps philosophies, including secure design and implementation.

Desirable Skills:

* Hands on Leadership experience providing clear guidance and architectural vision.* Planning, coordinating software development activities.* Self-driven and self-motivated.* Taking ownership of assured outcome delivery.* A superior attention to detail.* Strong analytical, problem solving and organisational skills.