Technical Architect

We are seeking a dynamic and technically proficient Technical Architect to join our team and contribute to the continued advancement of INSTANDA, reporting directly to our Head of Architecture. In this role, you will take the lead in guiding engineers within agile teams as they develop our groundbreaking SaaS products. Collaboration with our broader technology team, including Product, Quality Assurance, Business Analysts, and Platform Support, will be essential. We seek an individual capable of enhancing our existing .NET MVC platform while also spearheading technological advancements to align with our future growth objectives.

This role is fully remote.

• Design end to end technical solutions to implement new features on our platform.
• Estimate effort, timescales and costs to deliver.
• Work collaboratively with Developers, Quality Engineers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts, etc.
• Take accountability for architectural designs, and manage stakeholders to ensure that designs are implemented to plan.
• Help define non-functional requirements for changes to the platform.
• Guide proof of concepts for new features / frameworks / tools / products
• Implement Architecture processes across the Engineering function
• Advise on Cloud Architecture and DevOps practices
• Support and advise Development Scrum Teams on large platform changes
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with architectural design
• Champion architecture design patterns and technology choices
• Toolset Analysis
• Review designs and collaborate with the Architecture community
• Lead Technical Design Authority meetings on a rotational basis with the architecture team.
• Able to balance delivery pressures with moving to new technologies

Requirements

Essential

• 3+ years of professional software architecture experience
• Experience developing web applications and services
• Object Orientated Programming principles
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong stakeholder management skills both upwards and downwards
• Ability to effectively organise, prioritise, and delegate work

Technology that you are likely to be working with includes:

• Monolith and service based architectures
• Event driven architecture
• Azure Cloud Services/Infrastructure
• Database technologies such as SQL Server, Cosmos DB
• Containers and associated hosting technologies
• ASP.net Core / MVC

Desirable

• Knowledge of the insurance industry would be an advantage, but not essential.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance, in addition to public holidays.
• For every year of service you complete, we’ll give you an additional days holiday (max. 5 days)
• One Dynamic Day per month on top of your holiday allowance to spend time doing the things you want to do or simply catching up with life admin.
• Remote & Hybrid approach varying with the nature of your role.
• All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme.
• Life cover; income protection and participation in the company pension scheme
• £100 per month to put towards wellness activities.
• Annual learning & development allowance of £1,250 and free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platforms