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Principal Architect

Employer
Aker Systems
Location
Remote
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
20 Jul 2022

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Clearance Level
SC
Sector
Central Government, Public Sector
Job Type
Permanent

Job Details

Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations.  Aker builds and operates ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.

In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track.  The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories.

Most recently in September 2021, we were successfully acquired by a new investor (Abry Partners) who have a deep industry expertise in our field to support us in the next part of our journey and as we continue to grow and diversify as a business.

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply.  We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you do your very best work.

Duties & Responsibilities

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role.  If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years. 

Aker Systems deliver secure cloud hosted solutions into the public and private sectors, we are rapidly expanding and are looking to hire a Principal Architect to lead the architecture and support our client deliveries for our Public Sector clients and/or Financial Services. 

The successful candidate will need to have lead architecture experience which includes Security, Data, Cloud infrastructure, Service and Solution selection, with extensive experience in the Public Sector/and or Financial Services. You will be leading designs through from start to finish incorporating everything from technology to solution, assurance, governance, and security (pen testing) - Not from a hands-on perspective but from a lead design perspective. You will need to be client facing and be able to make complex designs seem simple to customers. 

Key Tasks:

  • Lead solution, data, cloud and security architects during design and delivery projects and services 
  • Support the research and develop high level and detailed solution designs 
  • Monitor technical deliverables against the designs, manage and report on design divergences 
  • Contribute to technical Change Requests 
  • Maintain and monitor solutions against Non-functional requirements, design principles and patterns 
  • Support solution option analysis and provide architectural recommendations 
  • Maintain the As-Is design against the build identifying design branches to be included into the core Aker product set 
  • Capture the technology stack and map to the architecture 
  • Closely collaborate with and guide the DevOps and application development teams 

Core Competencies

  • Experience and strong understanding of financial services domain, including compliance requirements
  • Skilled in designing distributed, event driven systems
  • Platform and application development
  • Has recently lead design activities on services that reside on AWS, Azure, GCP or hybrid environments
  • Has the ability to work in and has strong knowledge of agile development and modern CD/CI approaches
  • Has worked in public sector environments and understands their governance and security processes
  • Understands how security design is integrated into the solution design
  • Experience in defining enterprise-scale critical data platforms and services

Will need extensive experience in: 

  • Delivery - designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, particularly in streaming and cloud-native solutions
  • Data - solving enterprise data and analytics problems using technology
  • Cloud - hands-on Public Cloud experience in either AWS/Azure/Google, both their 'services' and 'how' to work in the cloud such as DevOps-centric approach
  • Security - having worked in sensitive data environments and ideally have experience facing off to cyber security specialists
  • Sector - initial focus is Public Sector (Central Government), and ideally Financial Services or other industry background to expand into 

Aker Systems Attributes

At Aker we work as a team, we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed.  There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes.  You are always part of the wider Aker.  We help out our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks.  We run towards problems and help solve them.  Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.

In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), Company Paid Medical Insurance, Life Assurance (4x times basic salary), Pension scheme, Perks at Work, Cycle Scheme, Tech Scheme and Season Ticket Loan. Plus, a list of voluntary benefits including Dental Insurance, Critical illness cover, Virtual GP.  

Equal Opportunities

Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.

Company

We move highly sensitive data into the public cloud. Our products enable the transformation of systems into ultra-secure, scalable and powerful cloud based environments. We build and manage enterprise scale data infrastructures which deliver data securely, at speed wherever it is required.

Company info
Website
Telephone
02036339901
Location
The Stanley Building
7 Pancras Square
London
London
N1C 4AG
GB

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