Full-Time Principal Architect (Application Architecture)

Architects design digital blueprints for client projects. They create scalable, efficient, and secure IT systems to ensure alignment with business goals before, during, and after development.

Our Architects possess a blend of technical expertise, strategic vision, and strong communication skills. As a Principal Architect in Application Architecture at Endava, you'll spearhead the specification and design of information systems across diverse business needs, ensuring seamless compatibility with both enterprise and solution architectures. This role demands a refined blend of autonomy and collaborative prowess, steering project success and influencing key stakeholders internally and externally.

Your contributions will extend beyond mere technical expertise, encompassing a deep understanding of business operations and client needs, thereby shaping the very foundation of our project outcomes.

Responsibilities:

1. Comprehensive Design Leadership: Lead the design process for information systems, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business objectives.
2. Physical Design Translation: Effectively translate logical designs into physical implementations, considering environmental constraints and performance requirements.
3. Strategic Leadership: Act as a primary influencer among team members, clients, and suppliers, guiding resource allocation and strategic decision-making.
4. Proactive Communication: Champion robust collaboration among stakeholders, facilitating effective communication on project objectives.
5. Advocacy for Best Practices: Advocate for best practices in software development and architectural design, upholding high standards in client interactions.
6. Complex Landscape Navigation: Navigate complex social and technical landscapes, making judicious decisions balancing competing interests.
7. Advanced Application Architecture: Demonstrated software design and development experience with leading technologies, programming languages, frameworks, databases, servers, networking, cloud infrastructure, containerization, and application security.
8. Integration: Experience in software integration utilizing technologies such as ESBs, MQs, API Gateways, and streaming/event processing software.
9. Process: Proficiency in Agile, DevOps, TDD methodologies, and familiarity with development tools.
10. Testing: Awareness of various testing and release management practices.
11. System: Demonstrated proficiency in systems design, using GoF patterns and modern methodologies.
12. Implementation: Strong familiarity with various patterns such as OOP, FP, SmartUI, CQRS, REST, SOLID, etc.
13. Exceptional Communication: Articulating complex technical concepts with precision, and proficiency in diagraming systems (RAIDs, C4s, sequence diagrams, data flow).
14. Team Leadership: Leading distributed teams across North America and the world.
15. Interpersonal Skills: Proficiency in both spoken and written English, capable of engaging effectively with clients and stakeholders.
16. Systems Assessment: Advanced understanding of information systems concepts and the systems development life cycle.
17. Professional Standards: Familiarity with corporate, industry, and professional standards.
18. Educational Foundation: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

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