Technical Architect

4 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom Yell Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Architect to join the Engineering team here at Yell. We have big plans for our team and product, and we are looking to add to our passionate, diverse, and ambitious team to help make our mission a reality.You will be part of a small, focused, and highly collaborative team within Yell Architecture, looking to define and own the cloud and on-premise architectures across Yell.

**The Role**

As Technical Architect you will be responsible for Achieving the organisation’s goals by collaborating with the software development teams to build scalable software that fits the business needs.You will work with engineers to establish and document architecturalprinciples, ensuring standards evolve with emerging technologies and adding in mechanisms to drive adherence.

Working with the software development team to ensure DevSecOps and quality practices are at the core of our development, whilst Coordinating with the software development team to ensure our systems run smoothly and are built with maintainability in mind.

Driving quality development of new features in an agile environment whilst continuously monitoring and reacting to user and technological changes.

Building and maintaining technical relationships with key external suppliers, promoting deep understanding of their products across the Software Development team, and leveraging their features to produce meaningful improvements in business, customer andemployee experience.

**Responsibilities**

Development of microservices in a containerised cloud environment, to lead cross component technical design, produce clear architectural documentation and communicate clearly plans and risks to business stakeholders.
Lead, develop and mentor technical people reaching out across multiple technical teams, building strong working relationships to share good practice, co-operating on cross team features, and driving a good end-to-end customer experience.
Thrive in a lean product / agile environment and work with the teams to continually improve our processes practices so that we can build, measure and learn rapidly.
Encourage the engineers they work with to understand the architectural standards and best practices and work autonomously within them, while regularly reviewing and updating them to meet the needs of their team.
Lead robust code review, testing and automated testing procedures.
Regularly communicating architecture and technical decisions to business stakeholders and technical team members
- We are keen to hear from a wide range of people with different backgrounds and levels of experience._

**Requirements**:
A hands-on multi-disciplinary technologist that likes getting problem solving across multiple tech streams. We predominately use Java for our micro services but our full stack includes vueJs, SwiftUI, Kotlin, MongoDB, Aurora, Snowflake, Marklogic, SAP CloudPlatform Integration, Oracle, SqS and many more
A demonstrated track record of learning and adapting to new technologies
A thought leader who believes in SOLID principles of clean code in a simple style using designs that follow our architecture standards.
A strategic thinker that plans and reviews with the wider business
Deeply appreciative and passionate about all aspects of the user experience
Experience of mentoring and developing technical team members to lead good technical delivery practice
Communicate difficult technical concepts clearly to various key business stakeholders
Have worked in an Agile Scrum based environment using a modern ticketing driven system and implementing CI/CD concepts
Have designed REST/CRUD Microservice environments using containers and AWS
Understand how users interact with modern messaging systems

**Nice to have**

Experience building and maintaining chat bots at volume
Google Business Messaging and/or Apple Business Chat and/or Whatsapp and/or SMS
NLU experience, Clustering, Classification, Extraction
Java coding experience
LivePerson Conversation Cloud, Intent Manager and Conversation Builder
IBM Watson Assistant and/or Microsoft Luis and/or Google DialogFlow and/or RASA
HumanFirst.ai or QBox
Atlassian Jira/Confluence
Multiprocessing Large Data Frames in Python
Selenium
Jenkins
PowerBI or other data visualisation tool.

Here at Yell are embracing diversity in all its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all colleagues to feel empowered to perform their best work with us. This is integral for our mission to Grow, Evolve & Transform.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disabilitystatus.

We seek people from diverse backgrounds to join us and become part of an inclusive company where you can feel like you truly belong.

We look forward to hearing from you


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