Description

Boost IT is made up of people who are motivated to improve the world and who are passionate about technology. Our vision focuses on the skill to bring people together around complex problem solving for our clients, creating sophisticated solutions.

People are our most important asset and the reason for our business. We are proud of our strong culture, which challenges the status quo and always searches for the best solution for our clients. We believe technology can lead to a positive change in society, connect and inspire and, ultimately, lead to a better future.

BOOST IT. DOING IT. BETTER

Tasks

• Establishes and leads the technology strategy and technology roadmaps that enable the business.
• Partners with the Product Owners to align the roadmap with the technical design and strategy.
• Provides oversight at the portfolio level; influencing decision-making and prioritizing the business and architecture backlog for the programs and teams.
• Designs and develops IT architecture (integrated process, methodology, framework, software/applications, data, information, and technology) scalable solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.
• Provides consultation and collaborates with Market CIO, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short-range product features.
• Collaborates closely with the East and West (E/W) Regional Architecture and Applications team on delivering global capabilities aligned with GRM East and West strategic business priorities.
• Recommends and drives innovative solutions, which anticipates the future direction of the business, its drivers and technology strategy.
• Provides consultation on leveraging new and existing software and technology.
• Leads teams, may have overall leadership responsibility for product architecture and design.
• Reviews and ensures major architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible and cost-effective solutions.
• Works with or leads technical teams to identify functional requirements that drive architecture and technology to meet customer needs and enables business capability.
• Participates with application and infrastructure design architects to provide guidance for development and releases.
• Develops strategies and architectures which support advanced security topics such as Vulnerability Lifecycle Management, Identity Management, Intrusion Detection, Authentication, Authorization and Auditing.
• Consults with application development and infrastructure development teams to fit systems to architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate customer/stakeholder needs.
• Responsible for prototyping complex, cross platform business solutions to validate newer technologies.
• Recommends emerging scalable and reusable technical solutions to increase market share and reduce operational costs.
• Analyzes the technology industry and market trends to determine potential impact on the business.
• Influences technology direction and/or adjustments to incorporate into business plans.
• Influences the selection of hardware and software product standards and the design of standard configurations; makes significant contributions to market-centric technology roadmaps and architectural principles and frameworks.
• Develops and manages effective collaborative relationships with other departments, groups, peers, and subordinates (data mgmt., security, and infrastructure).
• Leads retrospectives and defining opportunities for experiments and POC`s.
• Facilitates cross-team/train learnings, communication and alignment.

Requirements

• Architecting cloud-based data platforms using a wide range of the Azure Services including Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory and Azure Blob storage.
• Building conceptual, logical and physical data models optimised for analytical use cases.
• Defining data architecture framework, standards and principles.
• Mapping data from source to target and establishing current & future state based on business data requirements.
• Providing Quality Assurance, reviewing the development.
• Working Knowledge of Data Modelling Tools
• Working in an agile environment
• Participate in sprint planning, estimating stories, providing proposed solutions and identifying stories that are not ready for planning Skills
• Good knowledge of Azure Services including Azure Databricks, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory , Azure Blob storage and Power BI
• Good knowledge of Azure DevOps Pipelines is ideal but knowledge of any other Enterprise product/tool for CI/CD is also considered, e.g.: Terraform, Jenkins, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; with the ability to explain complex problems in a simple and effective manner.
• Strong peer and senior stakeholder management skills and engagement with exec level sponsors.

If you are interested please send me your CV to [email protected]