Development Architect

We’re looking for a Development Architect to join our IT team. You will co-ordinate, manage and advance the architecture and technical aspects of the company’s internally developed systems.
This role can be **remote**with the need to travel to our Milton Keynes or Leighton Buzzard offices twice a month.
IT Solutions & Development comprises of the following key areas:

- Application Development
- Online Development
- Data Development
- Business Solutions

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Design and oversee designs for systems integration for internally developed systems
- Keep up-to-date regarding best practices in software development and deployment
- Ownership of best practice coding across Developers
- Contribute to improve the overall development processes and methodologies followed by development teams
- Contribute to and help decide on future systems development platforms / key architecture decisions
- Contribute to up-skilling the team through guidance and training

**Experience & skills**:
**Essential**:

- Excellent skills in SQL Server
- Experience and understanding in high performing architectures in an enterprise environment
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Team working mentality
- Experience feeding data to internal and external sources
- Knowledge of architecture design tools

**Desirable**:

- An understanding and / or experience of working in Cloud technologies such as Azure
- Knowledge of event based / Microservice architecture
- WPF

**Personal Attributes**:

- Willingness to own issues and chase them through to completion, communicating effectively and in a timely manner, throughout
- Helpful, courteous and experienced in dealing with user issues and frustrations with in a high-pressure environment
- Good team communication, with experiences in sharing and presenting new ideas and approaches with the team
- Willingness to learn, adopt and advance team best-practices, procedures and qualitative standards

**Connells Group** is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK and as of March 2021 also encompasses Countrywide.Founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,200 branches nationwide, the Groupcombines residential sales and lettings expertise with a range of consumer and corporate services including new homes, mortgage services, conveyancing, EPC provision, surveying, corporate lettings, asset management, land & planning, LPA receivers and auctions.