Technical Architect in West Bromwich

Technical Architect
Salary: Competitive
Location: Bristol
About the role
We are looking for someone with experience as a Technical Architect or Senior Technical Lead looking for the next step up.
Responsibilities
We are looking for someone with experience as a Technical Architect or Senior Technical Lead looking for the next step up. You will be expected to have experience of working with complex enterprise-level software and smaller-scale solutions alike. You’ll need to have experience working with content management systems as well as a range of technology platforms, most of which are based upon .NET and Azure.
You will have the opportunity to lead a team of software engineers to deliver exciting digital products and services for really interesting clients across a wide range of industries, such as the Royal Navy, Honda Motor Europe, The UN Refugee Agency, the Ministry of Defence, and others.
The ability to solve problems you may not have encountered before in a considered, intelligent manner is a must.
Day-to-day, we’d expect you to be carrying out the below activities as part of your job:
Line managing approximately three other members of the engineering team
Mentoring and supporting your team, as well as the wider engineering team
Contributing to the wider effort to improve quality and ways of working in the engineering team
Writing code, either as part of working on a project or features & fixes for BAU
Writing code in C#, Java and front-end languages as needed
Peer reviewing code
Producing prototype / proof-of-concept work
Identifying appropriate technical solutions for clients and documenting them in technical design documents (where required)
Keeping up to date with Sitecore, Umbraco and Adobe Experience Manager in terms of latest developments and features
Keeping up to date with cloud technology (primarily Azure, AWS) and the architectural possibilities with those platforms
Helping to improve ways of working within the team – across all areas
We would expect the role to be 60% hands-on, with the remainder of the time split between line management and architecture work.
Requirements
We need you to be comfortable with the below technology:
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Excellent leadership skillsBroad experience and expertise in a range of technologies and platforms
HTML, CSS, Javascript – modern standards
.NET (primarily in a web context)
Experience with content management systems (e.g. Sitecore, Umbraco, Adobe Experience Manager)
Systems integration
Enterprise architecture patterns (e.g. SoA, microservices)
Enterprise security
Azure (e.g. web apps, service bus, function apps)
E-commerce
Bonus points if you also have specific experience with:
Salesforce integration