Head of Architecture

1 day ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom ITV Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Architecture to join our Advanced Advertising Technology team at ITV. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for shaping and harmonising our application architecture capabilities and solution designs across our delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain a robust technical architecture framework that aligns with our product roadmap and mission objectives.
  • Establish and promote best practice design and architecture standards across our engineering teams.
  • Identify and nurture our architecture competency, introducing and maintaining an efficient delivery capability over the long term.
  • Define and communicate a clear cloud architecture vision, aligning with our product roadmap and mission objectives.
  • Build a diverse, supportive, excellence-focused architecture culture and discipline across delivery teams.
  • Develop our expertise and know-how by coaching and mentoring across our delivery teams and establishing personal training programs.
  • Line management of our architecture team, mentoring, mapping career pathways, training/upskilling, and conducting performance reviews.
  • Develop and implement AWS-based cloud solutions with a primary focus on security, scalability, and appropriate performance throughput.
  • Collaborate with other heads of department and individual scrum leads and teams to oversee the physical architecture/design, define and promote the architecture/infrastructure requirements, define and own the architecture/infrastructure related governance and change management processes.
  • Establish an overall architecture culture and ways of working that nurtures and evolves robust technical best practices and standards, devSecOps mindset, practices, and tooling.
  • Be the primary contact for the Group Architecture team and contribute to and support their initiatives and processes.
  • Cross-functional collaboration with heads of department to align architecture and infra-focused test strategies and practices to promote automated testing spanning both functional and non-functional (security, scalability, and performance, etc.).
  • Align the architecture team's goals and priorities with the engineering teams' related service KPIs, incident KPIs, DORA metrics, etc.
Requirements
  • Hands-on extensive experience with AWS services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Step Functions, WAF, EventBridge, Cognito, etc., with a strong understanding of AWS networking, security, and identity management services.
  • Deep knowledge of AWS Well-Architected Framework and best practices for designing and building scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions on AWS.
  • Deep understanding of microservices and serverless architectures, and how to build them out.
  • Proven track record in designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud architectures on AWS, particularly serverless/microservice-based solutions.
  • Fulfilled a mentorship role encouraging professional growth of engineer/architect personnel.
  • Knowledge of digital marketing and advertising industry.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
  • Good understanding of data governance, data privacy, and security principles.


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