Campaign Technical Architect


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Accenture Ireland

Listed on

13th March 2017

Location

Dublin

Salary/Rate

Excellent

Salary Notes

Excellent

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Our team

The CIO organisation is a global team that provides internal technology to support Accenture. Our mission is to seamlessly empower a highly effective high-performance workforce by providing best in class technology and employee experiences. We bring the latest research, methods and technologies together to deliver at scale across a global enterprise.

We are passionate about learning, innovation and technology. We are positive, experimental and adaptable. We use lean processes and strive to continuously improve everything that we do. We strive for a work environment that is happy, collaborative and productive.

We are currently building a new next generation software engineering team in Dublin. The team will be performing high-quality custom development using the latest technologies, lean agile and DevOps enabled processes, and a Cloud/Mobile/API first approach. This is a great time to join and be part of a new and growing team. It is an exciting opportunity to build strong technical skills in the latest technologies, to learn best practice software engineering techniques, to work in a state of the art innovative environment and to work with great people.

Location

We are based at The Dock, Accenture’s global centre for innovation in Dublin. The Dock is a living, breathing innovation hub as an accelerator to help unlock value by design. Operating across all stages of the innovation spectrum, the working environment is open and interactive.

As the Technical Architect, you’ll be responsible for defining the overall technical structure of systems. You’ll act as technical project manager, overseeing IT assignments that are aimed at improving the business, and ensuring that all technical aspects of projects run smoothly.

Responsibilities:

-Serves as a technical design authority and recommends build decisions for software components

-Provides technical leadership and mentoring to teams in an agile custom development environment

-Participates in rapid application development and agile processes to deliver new web/mobile/cloud/API/security components

-Sets architectural vision and direction across a number of development teams

-Drives architecture and the design of enterprise mobile/web/API solutions at scale

-Works collaboratively with other central architects

-Ensures adherence with central enterprise architecture frameworks and standards

-Gains approval for architecture acceptance from the central architects community

-Documents architecture views and deliverers architecture artefacts required by the delivery process

-Proposes solutions that fulfil business needs and follows architecture standards and best practices

-Collaborates with agile/feature teams and project teams by providing governance guidelines and architecture principles

-Assess and adopt new technologies as required

-Hands-on participant in architecture Proof of Concept activities and performance tuning software

-Organises educational activities for the application developers

-Identifies opportunities for process and tool improvements and drive them from concept to implementation

-Develops cohesive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders

-Synchronise with non-technical teams to deliver product releases smoothly, and to manage multiple projects simultaneously

-Works with vendors and stakeholders to identify technical risks, constraints and dependencies

-Works closely with the product management and development teams to rapidly translate the understanding of customer data and requirements to technical solutions

-Individual and team learning and development

Basic qualifications

Requirements

-Computer Science (or similar) degree

-4+ years experience in a Technical/Solution Architect role

-Solid technical background with skills in multiple programming languages

-Understanding of web, mobile, cloud and API development concepts and patterns

-Experience working with developers, scrum masters, product owners and other technical architects

-Ability and passion to quickly learn and implement new technologies as required

-Ability to communicate and work in a team in a fast paced Agile Scrum environment

-Strong oral, written and presentation skills with all level of stakeholders

-Solid understanding of Agile Scrum and SDLC principles

-Ability to work effectively under pressure with competing priorities

-Ability to bring analytical rigour and structure and effective solutions to poorly-defined problems

-A solid track record of architecting and designing large-scale high-throughput solutions

-Proven ability to assess and recommend architectures, technologies and vendors, with an understanding of multiple options for architectures

Nice to have

-Knowledge of JavaScript, Node.js, AngularJS, Ionic, Cordova or JSON an advantage

-Understanding of automation testing, DevOps, test driven development, continuous integration, continuous delivery, progressive web applications or micro-services an advantage

-Experience with security best practices and technologies such as OAuth an advantage

-Experience with cloud technologies (such as AWS, AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, MS Azure) is desirable

-Experience with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS) an advantage

-Hands-on experience with open source software and programming languages is desirable

-Very good conflict resolution skills

-Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence others

-Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills

-Ability to drive development of solutions, from architecture to design and development, including mentoring developers

-Certification in Agile an advantage

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions"underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network"Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Please note that Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity. Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

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