Digital Architect

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Technology professionals implement and lead highly complex technology projects. Working with clients, they design, develop and deliver innovative technology solutions that drive high performance. These professionals may build, test, install and maintain software across a variety of projects and industries, working with leading enterprise applications such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft and Oracle or with custom-built applications, and they are involved in a wide range of challenging global technology projects.

As a Digital Architect you are situated within the Digital Service Unit. You manage a wide and diverse range of digital marketing and ecommerce projects, from complex long-term platform replacement projects to smaller extensions to existing solutions. 

This role is to provide architecture expertise in building solutions across multiple digital channels including mobile, tablet, portals and web. You’ll recognise and have the experience of building true multi-channel solutions.

Depending on the business needs your role may include presenting to key internal digital stakeholders, working on project bids, through to working on delivery projects. You’ll be expected to define the technical solution, manage key technical risks and help shape the delivery of our solutions. In particular you’ll have experience architecting solution to meet high performance, availability and security requirements

- Governing the integration of all solutions and their integration patterns.

- Providing expertise and consulting to all projects within our delivery function about integration, interfaces and data flows and technologies.

- Creating, designing and reviewing solution architecture documents at high quality standards

- Researching new technologies to optimize the current solutions and to make them sustainable for the future, applying in-house standards and market best practices

- Consult with new projects to provide Digital Marketing architectural guidance.

- Act as technical resource for configuration choices, implementation planning and implementation challenges.

Requirements:

- 4-8 years experience in / demonstrable experience in architecture for digital channels projects 

- 4-8 years experience in / demonstrable strong mobile-specific architecture skills, experienced across mobile/tablet application platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, and/or Hybrid applications) 

- 4-8 years experience in working with middleware and integration approaches with various web services and message exchanges (i.e. JSON & REST, or also SOAP & XML) 

- 4-8 years experience in / where candidates should be able to link the architecture to the User Experience and UI; possibly possessing some familiarity with using prototyping tools (e.g. Axure, Fluid UI) 

- 4-8 years experience in / where candidates should have released a minimum of 1 mobile app to a public/enterprise store 

- 4-8 years experience in / with technical understanding of key Responsive Mobile technologies and typical toolkits and libraries used to implement 

- 4-8 years experience in / with knowledge of the latest advances and trends in mobile and web technologies 

- Good knowledge in the following platforms and technologies: data architecture and integration, solution architecture, technical components and integration patters, particularly in the areas of Salesforce.com Portfolio, Web content management, Marketing Automation, SEO/SEM, Digital Assett Management, Social Media.