Principal/Senior Principal Architect : DevOps - IFS Cloud Infrastructure (IFS Technology)

The Principal/Senior Principal Architect (“SPA”) within Cloud Infrastructure will own the overall architecture accountability for one or more specialist areas within the portfolio of the team. The role of the SPA is to design and communicate complex pipelines and associated capabilities to deliver a whole range of IFS capability to our customers as SaaS.

The SPA will work with a broad set of stakeholders including product managers, engineering leaders, program managers and dev ops engineers.

The occupant of this role diagnoses and solves significant, complex and non-routine problems; translates practices from other markets, countries and industries; provides authoritative, technical recommendations which have a significant impact on business performance in short and medium term; and contributes to company standards and procedures, including the IFS Technical Reference Architecture.

This role actively identifies new approaches that enhance and simplify where possible complexities in the IFS suite. The SPA represents IFS as the authority in one or more technology areas or portfolios and acts as a role model to develop experts within this area.

What is the role?

• Provide technical leadership for design and development of software and in particular automated deployment pipelines to meet functional & nonfunctional requirements
• Adopt a hands-on approach to design and implement the architecture runway for teams
• Set the technical agenda working closely with the Engineering and Product Management leadership
• Ensure maintainability, security and performance in any and all components by applying well-established engineering/architectural principles
• Ensure software quality complying with shift left quality principles
• Conduct peer reviews & provide feedback ensuring quality standards
• Engage with requirement owners and liaise with other stakeholders
• Contribute to improvements in IFS products & services
• Provide multi-horizon technology thinking to broad portfolios and platforms in line with desired business needs.