Infrastructure Solutions Architect

**We entertain our customers in new and exciting ways.**
We're a tech and digital company that quickly grew to become a market leader in the betting and gaming world. How? By understanding what our players want, and then giving it to them. Bigger. Bolder. Better.
Our Sky heritage means 'better' runs through us like a stick of rock. Today we have more than 1,400 colleagues - and every single one of us takes the responsibility and the opportunity to create amazing experiences for our players and that demands better tech,better products & better offers.
We've doubled in size over the last five years. And we're only just getting started.
At Sky Betting & Gaming you get the chance to become even better than you've ever been. It's a place where you can be who you really want to be and grow the way you want to grow. Everything we've done - better - has got us to where we are today. It's made usone of the Top 100 Best Companies to work for 6 years in a row.
Tomorrow, we can go even further because at Sky Betting & Gaming, better is just the beginning.
INTRODUCING Flutter UKI Infrastructure Solutions
As part of the UKI Infrastructure Strategy and Solutions function, you'll be responsible for providing solution design, technical planning and consultancy to the UKI technology tribes and business. With the establishment of the Flutter UKI Centres of excellenceand wider UKI divisional operating model the team will play a critical role in providing integration solutions to support the business mobilisation. The team will also contribute significantly to the delivery of UKI Infrastructure roadmaps including designof solutions to support public cloud adoption across the division. By its nature Infrastructure is a collection of diverse technical domains, the team play its part by providing solutions that integrate these domains and meet the objectives of the business.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
The Solutions Architect is a key role in the delivery of scalable, reliable on-premise infrastructure and public cloud platforms across Flutter UKI. Working closely with technical stakeholders across the division you will design and document solutions capableof meeting the challenging requirements for availability, stability and scalability necessary to support a rapidly growing online gaming and betting business.
Your key responsibilities will include:

- Contribute to the infrastructure platforms & public cloud platforms roadmap by identifying how solutions based on latest products/services can deliver the UKI infrastructure strategic vision
- Technical ownership of the end to end solution, providing technical leadership during project planning & delivery
- Produce practical designs and solutions for complex demands and requirements
- Ensure that solution designs are aligned to the UKI architectural principles and can meet demands of high-volume large-scale workloads
- Deliver fit for purpose solutions by ensuring that functional and non-functional requirements are well understood by all stakeholders
- Seek opportunities to remove technical debt from infrastructure platforms and reduce complexity
- Maintain high quality solution documentation, detailed drawings and plans
- Communicate effectively through face to face interaction, presentation and consumable documentation, both at a deep technical level and for senior non-technical audiences
- Work with 3rd party vendors and internal teams to evaluate how new hardware/software services will deliver on solution requirements
- Provide consultancy to UKI stakeholders on project and discovery engagements
- Collaborate with other architects & designers across Flutter to deliver end to end solutions
- Mentor junior staff as required and knowledge share with stakeholders
- Contribute to technical implementation plans and providing guidance to project teams
- Support the PPB/SBG Infrastructure engagement leads to triage technical requirements for new demand
- Provide accurate estimation for cost, effort and risk
- Contribute to the wider UKI architectural community

HOW YOU WILL DO IT
Working as a design authority across on private and public cloud infrastructure platforms you must be able to produce high quality designs which meet the functional and non-functional requirements identified by stakeholders, demonstrating how these have beenmet clearly. A key part for this roll is the ability to collaborate with wide set of stakeholders both highly technical & non-technical. For larger initiatives you will be required to set technical direction and provide guidance when solving complex problems.

HELPING YOU TO LIVE YOUR LIFE, BETTERYou will have the opportunity to work as part of highly skilled and friendly team that will value your input. The team are more than happy to share their vast knowledge and help you settle into the role. In no time atall you'll be contributing to the Flutter UKI technology roadmap working with stakeholders to identify how we turn long term vision into practical solutions.