Senior Software Engineer | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform | Distributed Systems Up to £100,000 per annum plus bonus and stock Hybrid in London office G olang, Rust, C, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud Native, Distributed systems Are you a Senior Software Engineer with considerable cloud/infrastructure experience? Looking to join a company who are solving genuine problems that disrupt an industry? Interested in working with the best talent on the market and having a real impact on projects? If so I'm partnered with a very exciting cloud startup who have received record funding and are looking for innovative Senior Software Engineers to join their ambitious team! With a new CTO who has spent much of their career building out a world leading cloud platform, the team are growing fast and they're looking to attract the best talent on the market. Having received huge investment, they are on a journey to truly disrupt the industry and are not held back by any Legacy code or old customers. This means that they're able to build out state-of-the-art, Greenfield code which can focus on being the worlds most accountable and sustainable cloud provider . What they're looking for in a Senior Software Engineer: Tech agnostic but preferable experience working with Golang, Rust or C/C++ Experience working on software infrastructure or building cloud native software Experience working with high scale, distributed systems Understanding of systems design and how different components interact If this sounds like you, feel free to apply and I can run through more details! Senior Software Engineer | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform | Distributed Systems Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.
May 15, 2024
Full time
Senior Software Engineer | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform | Distributed Systems Up to £100,000 per annum plus bonus and stock Hybrid in London office G olang, Rust, C, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud Native, Distributed systems Are you a Senior Software Engineer with considerable cloud/infrastructure experience? Looking to join a company who are solving genuine problems that disrupt an industry? Interested in working with the best talent on the market and having a real impact on projects? If so I'm partnered with a very exciting cloud startup who have received record funding and are looking for innovative Senior Software Engineers to join their ambitious team! With a new CTO who has spent much of their career building out a world leading cloud platform, the team are growing fast and they're looking to attract the best talent on the market. Having received huge investment, they are on a journey to truly disrupt the industry and are not held back by any Legacy code or old customers. This means that they're able to build out state-of-the-art, Greenfield code which can focus on being the worlds most accountable and sustainable cloud provider . What they're looking for in a Senior Software Engineer: Tech agnostic but preferable experience working with Golang, Rust or C/C++ Experience working on software infrastructure or building cloud native software Experience working with high scale, distributed systems Understanding of systems design and how different components interact If this sounds like you, feel free to apply and I can run through more details! Senior Software Engineer | Sustainable Cloud Native Platform | Distributed Systems Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.
Job ID: AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Prototyping Engagement Manager (PEM) to lead the end-to-end lifecycle of developing prototypes with AWS customers in the UK and Ireland. This role is part of the AWS EMEA PACE (Prototyping & Customer Engineering) team and will work closely with sales and solutions architecture leadership to identify high-priority customer prototyping opportunities, qualify, scope, and manage these opportunities. PEM works in partnership with Prototyping Architects (PA) to manage & deliver prototyping engagements primary focusing on Generative AI, Data Analytics, Modernization & Edge/IoT. The role is based in London and will might require regular travel within UK and Ireland, as well as occasional travel in EMEA. AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services. Key job responsibilities - Proactively identify customer prototyping opportunities working in close collaboration AWS account teams. PEMs dive deep to understand the customer's business as well as their technical architecture to identify opportunities or gaps that require use of emerging technology. - Work with go-to-market stakeholders in UKI (country leadership, account teams ) to develop a healthy pipeline of high impact prototyping opportunities - Establish the scope and define a working setup in collaboration with technical as well as business stakeholders of a prototype. Dive deep with selected customers to ensure positive long term returns of prototyping investments for customers and Amazon - Lead the design and execution of prototypes with prototyping architects, account teams and other stakeholders - Help customers structure their technical and organizational resources to ensure maximum benefits from adoption or leverage of the AWS cloud - Develop extensive executive and senior technical relationships within client organizations; being viewed as a trusted advisor for innovation and cloud technology - Capture learnings as well as customer feedback from engagements and drive those learnings into the wider organization to improve services and products. - Support the development of reusable assets and other artefacts leveraging the outcomes from prototypes About the team The AWS Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team offers a direct customer engagement program, working with customer development teams over a number of weeks, to help accelerate the design and delivery of pre-agreed and representative use cases from their roadmap. Over the course of an engagement, PACE delivers tailored co-development sessions, aligned to the customer team's specific enablement needs, with a focus on building cloud-native workloads. Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship and Career Growth We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: London, GBR BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams - Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules - Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design - Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps - Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management - Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules - Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice () to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial (tel:). If calling from Ireland, please dial (tel:). Posted: April 11, 2024 (Updated about 3 hours ago) Posted: April 3, 2024 (Updated 1 day ago) Posted: April 11, 2024 (Updated 1 day ago) Posted: April 15, 2024 (Updated 1 day ago) Posted: March 25, 2024 (Updated 1 day ago) Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.
May 08, 2024
Full time
Job ID: AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Prototyping Engagement Manager (PEM) to lead the end-to-end lifecycle of developing prototypes with AWS customers in the UK and Ireland. This role is part of the AWS EMEA PACE (Prototyping & Customer Engineering) team and will work closely with sales and solutions architecture leadership to identify high-priority customer prototyping opportunities, qualify, scope, and manage these opportunities. PEM works in partnership with Prototyping Architects (PA) to manage & deliver prototyping engagements primary focusing on Generative AI, Data Analytics, Modernization & Edge/IoT. The role is based in London and will might require regular travel within UK and Ireland, as well as occasional travel in EMEA. AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services. Key job responsibilities - Proactively identify customer prototyping opportunities working in close collaboration AWS account teams. PEMs dive deep to understand the customer's business as well as their technical architecture to identify opportunities or gaps that require use of emerging technology. - Work with go-to-market stakeholders in UKI (country leadership, account teams ) to develop a healthy pipeline of high impact prototyping opportunities - Establish the scope and define a working setup in collaboration with technical as well as business stakeholders of a prototype. Dive deep with selected customers to ensure positive long term returns of prototyping investments for customers and Amazon - Lead the design and execution of prototypes with prototyping architects, account teams and other stakeholders - Help customers structure their technical and organizational resources to ensure maximum benefits from adoption or leverage of the AWS cloud - Develop extensive executive and senior technical relationships within client organizations; being viewed as a trusted advisor for innovation and cloud technology - Capture learnings as well as customer feedback from engagements and drive those learnings into the wider organization to improve services and products. - Support the development of reusable assets and other artefacts leveraging the outcomes from prototypes About the team The AWS Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team offers a direct customer engagement program, working with customer development teams over a number of weeks, to help accelerate the design and delivery of pre-agreed and representative use cases from their roadmap. Over the course of an engagement, PACE delivers tailored co-development sessions, aligned to the customer team's specific enablement needs, with a focus on building cloud-native workloads. Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship and Career Growth We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: London, GBR BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams - Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules - Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design - Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps - Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management - Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules - Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice () to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial (tel:). If calling from Ireland, please dial (tel:). Posted: April 11, 2024 (Updated about 3 hours ago) Posted: April 3, 2024 (Updated 1 day ago) Posted: April 11, 2024 (Updated 1 day ago) Posted: April 15, 2024 (Updated 1 day ago) Posted: March 25, 2024 (Updated 1 day ago) Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.
We believe in better. And we make it happen. Better content. Better products. And better careers. Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky. What you'll do Help to build applications that are core to Sky's market leading AdSmart platform Champion the departments adoption of Cloud technologies Work with the Automation Tester to ensure we deliver well tested applications with a robust CI/CD pipeline. Mentor Junior and Associate Software Engineers Engage with the wider AdTech and Sky developer communities. What you'll bring Demonstrable experience of delivering secure, performant, applications in a variety of languages (C#, DotNET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript), and SQL in a cloud-based environment (GCP/AWS) Good experience of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes clusters and cloud native tools like Big Query, Cloud Composer, Cloud Build (or their AWS equivalents). Complete dedication to excellent Software Engineering standards. An appetite to expand your horizons, to look at new technology and assess how best to use it. Team overview Sky Advertising Technology provides innovative solutions to Sky's Advertising opportunities including the industry leading AdSmart - that allows our clients to accurately target their adverts to relevant households. As a Software Engineer, you'll be helping to build those systems and be part of the migration of AdTech systems into the Cloud! Content technology and innovation Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content! The rewards There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster: Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate A generous pension package Private healthcare Discounted mobile and broadband A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences Inclusion & how you'll work Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky. We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process. Your office space Osterley Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon. We'd love to hear from you Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It's a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. But better doesn't stop at what we do, it's how we do it, too. We embrace each other's differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet. If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
Dec 12, 2022
Full time
We believe in better. And we make it happen. Better content. Better products. And better careers. Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky. What you'll do Help to build applications that are core to Sky's market leading AdSmart platform Champion the departments adoption of Cloud technologies Work with the Automation Tester to ensure we deliver well tested applications with a robust CI/CD pipeline. Mentor Junior and Associate Software Engineers Engage with the wider AdTech and Sky developer communities. What you'll bring Demonstrable experience of delivering secure, performant, applications in a variety of languages (C#, DotNET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript), and SQL in a cloud-based environment (GCP/AWS) Good experience of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes clusters and cloud native tools like Big Query, Cloud Composer, Cloud Build (or their AWS equivalents). Complete dedication to excellent Software Engineering standards. An appetite to expand your horizons, to look at new technology and assess how best to use it. Team overview Sky Advertising Technology provides innovative solutions to Sky's Advertising opportunities including the industry leading AdSmart - that allows our clients to accurately target their adverts to relevant households. As a Software Engineer, you'll be helping to build those systems and be part of the migration of AdTech systems into the Cloud! Content technology and innovation Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content! The rewards There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster: Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate A generous pension package Private healthcare Discounted mobile and broadband A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences Inclusion & how you'll work Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky. We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process. Your office space Osterley Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon. We'd love to hear from you Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It's a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. But better doesn't stop at what we do, it's how we do it, too. We embrace each other's differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet. If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
We believe in better. And we make it happen. Better content. Better products. And better careers. Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky. What you'll do Help to build applications that are core to Sky's market leading AdSmart platform Champion the departments adoption of Cloud technologies Work with the Automation Tester to ensure we deliver well tested applications with a robust CI/CD pipeline. Mentor Junior and Associate Software Engineers Engage with the wider AdTech and Sky developer communities. What you'll bring Demonstrable experience of delivering secure, performant, applications in a variety of languages (C#, DotNET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript), and SQL in a cloud-based environment (GCP/AWS) Good experience of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes clusters and cloud native tools like Big Query, Cloud Composer, Cloud Build (or their AWS equivalents). Complete dedication to excellent Software Engineering standards. An appetite to expand your horizons, to look at new technology and assess how best to use it. Team overview Sky Advertising Technology provides innovative solutions to Sky's Advertising opportunities including the industry leading AdSmart - that allows our clients to accurately target their adverts to relevant households. As a Software Engineer, you'll be helping to build those systems and be part of the migration of AdTech systems into the Cloud! Content technology and innovation Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content! The rewards There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster: Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate A generous pension package Private healthcare Discounted mobile and broadband A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences Inclusion & how you'll work Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky. We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process. Your office space Osterley Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon. We'd love to hear from you Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It's a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. But better doesn't stop at what we do, it's how we do it, too. We embrace each other's differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet. If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
Dec 10, 2022
Full time
We believe in better. And we make it happen. Better content. Better products. And better careers. Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky. What you'll do Help to build applications that are core to Sky's market leading AdSmart platform Champion the departments adoption of Cloud technologies Work with the Automation Tester to ensure we deliver well tested applications with a robust CI/CD pipeline. Mentor Junior and Associate Software Engineers Engage with the wider AdTech and Sky developer communities. What you'll bring Demonstrable experience of delivering secure, performant, applications in a variety of languages (C#, DotNET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript), and SQL in a cloud-based environment (GCP/AWS) Good experience of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes clusters and cloud native tools like Big Query, Cloud Composer, Cloud Build (or their AWS equivalents). Complete dedication to excellent Software Engineering standards. An appetite to expand your horizons, to look at new technology and assess how best to use it. Team overview Sky Advertising Technology provides innovative solutions to Sky's Advertising opportunities including the industry leading AdSmart - that allows our clients to accurately target their adverts to relevant households. As a Software Engineer, you'll be helping to build those systems and be part of the migration of AdTech systems into the Cloud! Content technology and innovation Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content! The rewards There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster: Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate A generous pension package Private healthcare Discounted mobile and broadband A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences Inclusion & how you'll work Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky. We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process. Your office space Osterley Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon. We'd love to hear from you Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It's a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. But better doesn't stop at what we do, it's how we do it, too. We embrace each other's differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet. If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
We believe in better. And we make it happen. Better content. Better products. And better careers. Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky. What you'll do A primary responsibility of this role is contributing to and defining the One Platform North Star vision and roadmap; focussing on componentisation, building and integrating common platforms that can be scaled and deployed across the Group, whilst ensuring that the technology landscape is aligned to the strategic and operational goals of the CBP department, and more widely within CTI, Sky and Comcast. You will act as a "glue" across all functional and operational domains, providing a birds-eye view of the CBP architecture, whilst balancing business, technology and organisational considerations. Collaborate with senior executives to assign clear accountability for each component to operations and technology delivery cross-functional teams. Work with operations and delivery teams to perform high-level solution designs and reference models which balance the needs of the business with the evolution of the technical landscape. Advise and support senior executives on technical choices and associated risks and opportunities on build, buy, extend, customise and deprecate strategies. Collaborate with operations and delivery teams to refine and reformulate the technology strategy (and stated goals), based on continuous learning about what customers require, and what innovation and new technologies make that vision possible. Contribute to the architecture & technology guardrails and principles within the department to drive the decision process, and govern their lifecycle, intervening where required to collaboratively address any shortfalls. Be pragmatic with architectural decisions and mitigating key technical risks across operations and delivery teams adopting trade-offs. What you'll bring A critical thinking and transformative attitude with a pragmatic view of the immediate horizon. A collaborative self-starter that can respond positively to a constantly evolving environment. Able to communicate sophisticated and detailed issues expertly and articulately to all audiences within the organisation, making complex things simple to understand. Confident communication and networking skills being expected to present to executives and across senior levels of the organisation. Extensive experience in technology leadership roles within large enterprise media organisations using DevOps software development methods, with a focus on broadcast digital and video technologies. A track record in software engineering working within a software delivery team. Preferably from a coding and cloud computing background. Be able to "see around corners" and be able to zoom out and see the bigger picture. Able to forge the connection between business and technology by balancing business, technical and organisational considerations. Team overview You will be reporting to the Head of Architecture within the Content Broadcast and Platforms (CBP) department part of the CTI Engineering unit. You will be member of an established team that has end-to-end responsibility for enterprise architecture providing on going recommendations, design guidance and collaboration with our technology delivery teams as well as operations and cloud native partners, to transform the CBP department from vertical silos to teams that contribute to a set of consolidated and shared components. The enterprise architecture team, reporting into the Group Director of CBP, will deliver based on the following core principles: Componentisation - breaking key outcomes into components with designated accountability, facilitating both operational excellence and adaptability to change Empowerment - cross-functional teams must be empowered with responsibility for the processes and technology within each component Influence - strategy becomes both a top-down and bottom-up exercise The members of the CBP enterprise architecture team will assist and provide the required consultancy to guarantee consistency, standardisation and interoperability of components and solutions across CT&I, Sky, Comcast and external collaborators. Content technology and innovation Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content. The rewards There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster: Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate A generous pension package Private healthcare Discounted mobile and broadband A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences Inclusion & how you'll work Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky. We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process. Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon. We'd love to hear from you Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It's a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. But better doesn't stop at what we do, it's how we do it, too. We embrace each other's differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet. If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
Dec 01, 2022
Full time
We believe in better. And we make it happen. Better content. Better products. And better careers. Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky. What you'll do A primary responsibility of this role is contributing to and defining the One Platform North Star vision and roadmap; focussing on componentisation, building and integrating common platforms that can be scaled and deployed across the Group, whilst ensuring that the technology landscape is aligned to the strategic and operational goals of the CBP department, and more widely within CTI, Sky and Comcast. You will act as a "glue" across all functional and operational domains, providing a birds-eye view of the CBP architecture, whilst balancing business, technology and organisational considerations. Collaborate with senior executives to assign clear accountability for each component to operations and technology delivery cross-functional teams. Work with operations and delivery teams to perform high-level solution designs and reference models which balance the needs of the business with the evolution of the technical landscape. Advise and support senior executives on technical choices and associated risks and opportunities on build, buy, extend, customise and deprecate strategies. Collaborate with operations and delivery teams to refine and reformulate the technology strategy (and stated goals), based on continuous learning about what customers require, and what innovation and new technologies make that vision possible. Contribute to the architecture & technology guardrails and principles within the department to drive the decision process, and govern their lifecycle, intervening where required to collaboratively address any shortfalls. Be pragmatic with architectural decisions and mitigating key technical risks across operations and delivery teams adopting trade-offs. What you'll bring A critical thinking and transformative attitude with a pragmatic view of the immediate horizon. A collaborative self-starter that can respond positively to a constantly evolving environment. Able to communicate sophisticated and detailed issues expertly and articulately to all audiences within the organisation, making complex things simple to understand. Confident communication and networking skills being expected to present to executives and across senior levels of the organisation. Extensive experience in technology leadership roles within large enterprise media organisations using DevOps software development methods, with a focus on broadcast digital and video technologies. A track record in software engineering working within a software delivery team. Preferably from a coding and cloud computing background. Be able to "see around corners" and be able to zoom out and see the bigger picture. Able to forge the connection between business and technology by balancing business, technical and organisational considerations. Team overview You will be reporting to the Head of Architecture within the Content Broadcast and Platforms (CBP) department part of the CTI Engineering unit. You will be member of an established team that has end-to-end responsibility for enterprise architecture providing on going recommendations, design guidance and collaboration with our technology delivery teams as well as operations and cloud native partners, to transform the CBP department from vertical silos to teams that contribute to a set of consolidated and shared components. The enterprise architecture team, reporting into the Group Director of CBP, will deliver based on the following core principles: Componentisation - breaking key outcomes into components with designated accountability, facilitating both operational excellence and adaptability to change Empowerment - cross-functional teams must be empowered with responsibility for the processes and technology within each component Influence - strategy becomes both a top-down and bottom-up exercise The members of the CBP enterprise architecture team will assist and provide the required consultancy to guarantee consistency, standardisation and interoperability of components and solutions across CT&I, Sky, Comcast and external collaborators. Content technology and innovation Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content. The rewards There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here's a taster: Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate A generous pension package Private healthcare Discounted mobile and broadband A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences Inclusion & how you'll work Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky. We've embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You'll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process. Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon. We'd love to hear from you Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It's a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. But better doesn't stop at what we do, it's how we do it, too. We embrace each other's differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet. If you believe in better, we'll back you all the way. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
Short Description We're looking for a visionary Cloud Native Architect / Principal Engineer to join our fast growing Public Sector team. They will be responsible for defining and enabling the organisational strategy and approach to Cloud Native, focusing on culture, process, practices, and tools to increase the organisation's ability and capability to deliver applications and services at high velocity and in a sustainable manner. They will understand key technologies in the Cloud Native domain and have experience in using these to deliver cloud native, large-scale nationally critical projects. They will have the ability to lead and influence the organisation's overall Cloud Native strategy and approach, engaging effectively with cross functional teams, and senior stakeholders across the UK government to build supportable, sustainable and reliable services. Job Responsibilities You'll be working closely with our Public Sector Sales team as a Cloud Native subject matter expert, undertaking a key role to strengthen our digital capability and help expand our Public Sector digital footprint. The role will be focused on developing opportunities, supporting the sales & solutioning process and aiding the conversion of digital opportunities with both new and existing customers; as well as working with the delivery organisation to mobilise resources and advise on the delivery of the win. This will include providing thought leadership to our customers and within our organisation, as well as raising our profile within the digital and open source community. Innovation is at the heart of all we do, which is why you'll be utilising a variety of Open Source and proprietary cloud technologies to achieve the best possible outcomes. Qualifications • An ability to define a clear Vision and Strategy and to promote and advocate it's adoption across a diverse range of stakeholders, • A proven track-record in leading implementation of Cloud Native strategies and transformation at scale, • An ability to lead from the front, inspiring and motivating others towards a common goal, • Strong expertise in cloud native and virtualisation platforms (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMWare, etc.), operating systems (Linux, Windows), infrastructure automation (Ansible, Chef, Packer, Puppet, Terraform, etc.), and application hosting technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, etc.). • Solid understanding of the practical application of DevOps/SRE philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code, and leading infrastructure and operations teams in an Agile/Lean/Continuous Delivery environment • Experience in designing and architecting enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms with a focus on security • Understanding of the issues our end users face and experience working with them to create robust, scalable, elegant, flexible and relevant solutions that truly transform industries • Experience working directly with senior IT groups in an advisory role • Experience working with CTO/CIO/COO to create technical strategies • Experience contributing to the professional community as a speaker, author or online contributor • Ability to work in a variety of client settings and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment • An active interest / background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) • Experience in SDLP (software delivery lifecycle process), its optimisation and process enablement; Test automation and Service Virtualisation and Infrastructure and Application monitoring. • A strong understanding of software development (Java, Python, Ruby) combined with expertise in design of on-prem/off-prem/hybrid architectures utilising modern technologies and approaches: API's Micro-services, Containers, PaaS, SaaS. • Comfortable in leading and working across disciplines alongside client and other suppliers to create technical solutions or, where required able to define and communicate solutions alone and with minimal supervision. • Enthusiastic about technology, and able to learn and adapt quickly in a fast-moving environment, being able to assess and evaluate emerging concepts and apply them to a clients context, • A strong presenter, who is able to communicate complex ideas and concepts, tailoring approaches to align to stakeholder of varying levels of technical ability • Able to convey ideas and concepts in written form to support large scale bids and opportunities Why you? If you have a passion for everything Cloud Native (DevOps / SRE / Cloud Architecture), love working in Public Sector and making a positive difference to the Country through delivering some of the most important digital transformations such as Future Borders, Digital Courts, Future Farming, Digital Defence, Digital Policing, Digital Transport.
Sep 19, 2022
Full time
Short Description We're looking for a visionary Cloud Native Architect / Principal Engineer to join our fast growing Public Sector team. They will be responsible for defining and enabling the organisational strategy and approach to Cloud Native, focusing on culture, process, practices, and tools to increase the organisation's ability and capability to deliver applications and services at high velocity and in a sustainable manner. They will understand key technologies in the Cloud Native domain and have experience in using these to deliver cloud native, large-scale nationally critical projects. They will have the ability to lead and influence the organisation's overall Cloud Native strategy and approach, engaging effectively with cross functional teams, and senior stakeholders across the UK government to build supportable, sustainable and reliable services. Job Responsibilities You'll be working closely with our Public Sector Sales team as a Cloud Native subject matter expert, undertaking a key role to strengthen our digital capability and help expand our Public Sector digital footprint. The role will be focused on developing opportunities, supporting the sales & solutioning process and aiding the conversion of digital opportunities with both new and existing customers; as well as working with the delivery organisation to mobilise resources and advise on the delivery of the win. This will include providing thought leadership to our customers and within our organisation, as well as raising our profile within the digital and open source community. Innovation is at the heart of all we do, which is why you'll be utilising a variety of Open Source and proprietary cloud technologies to achieve the best possible outcomes. Qualifications • An ability to define a clear Vision and Strategy and to promote and advocate it's adoption across a diverse range of stakeholders, • A proven track-record in leading implementation of Cloud Native strategies and transformation at scale, • An ability to lead from the front, inspiring and motivating others towards a common goal, • Strong expertise in cloud native and virtualisation platforms (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMWare, etc.), operating systems (Linux, Windows), infrastructure automation (Ansible, Chef, Packer, Puppet, Terraform, etc.), and application hosting technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, etc.). • Solid understanding of the practical application of DevOps/SRE philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code, and leading infrastructure and operations teams in an Agile/Lean/Continuous Delivery environment • Experience in designing and architecting enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms with a focus on security • Understanding of the issues our end users face and experience working with them to create robust, scalable, elegant, flexible and relevant solutions that truly transform industries • Experience working directly with senior IT groups in an advisory role • Experience working with CTO/CIO/COO to create technical strategies • Experience contributing to the professional community as a speaker, author or online contributor • Ability to work in a variety of client settings and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment • An active interest / background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) • Experience in SDLP (software delivery lifecycle process), its optimisation and process enablement; Test automation and Service Virtualisation and Infrastructure and Application monitoring. • A strong understanding of software development (Java, Python, Ruby) combined with expertise in design of on-prem/off-prem/hybrid architectures utilising modern technologies and approaches: API's Micro-services, Containers, PaaS, SaaS. • Comfortable in leading and working across disciplines alongside client and other suppliers to create technical solutions or, where required able to define and communicate solutions alone and with minimal supervision. • Enthusiastic about technology, and able to learn and adapt quickly in a fast-moving environment, being able to assess and evaluate emerging concepts and apply them to a clients context, • A strong presenter, who is able to communicate complex ideas and concepts, tailoring approaches to align to stakeholder of varying levels of technical ability • Able to convey ideas and concepts in written form to support large scale bids and opportunities Why you? If you have a passion for everything Cloud Native (DevOps / SRE / Cloud Architecture), love working in Public Sector and making a positive difference to the Country through delivering some of the most important digital transformations such as Future Borders, Digital Courts, Future Farming, Digital Defence, Digital Policing, Digital Transport.
A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.As a member of the team, you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems. Our Digital Platforms Practice PwC has formed a world-leading digital practice to help our clients define the next generation of banking. Leveraging our heritage in financial services, plus our experience at the forefront of digital banking today, we bring a unique perspective on how to turn new and emerging technology into cut-through customer propositions, and help tomorrow's leaders to build or recalibrate business models for success. PwC has unique assets to help clients get ahead in this new age of banking. These solutions give our clients access to premade digital platforms, ecosystems and business model blueprints, so that they don't have to start from scratch. This not only helps clients to accelerate digital transformation, but also gives leaders confidence that they are steering their business and business culture in the right direction to remain successful in the future. To support this rapid growth we are looking for people who enjoy the excitement of shaping new ideas and working as part of multi-disciplinary teams on complex challenges, where each project is likely to be different to the last. We are looking for candidates with the passion and commitment, intellect and experience that can enable our clients' success in the intensely competitive economic environment of the digital age. About the role There is significant market growth expected over the coming years in Financial Services banking digital transformation driven by the following factors: Banks have spent years on developing digital apps, but not digitised their underlying platforms. Cost reduction and need for agility is bringing this to the top of the agenda It is generally acknowledged that 'custom build' digital banks by incumbents is not a good strategy and that traditional 'core banking replacement' programmes destroy value. Covid has brought channel shift and digital capabilities front and centre. Migration to digital banking just accelerated this shift by 3-4 years Banks are now looking to transform using business led, cloud based ecosystem solutions that can be configured, deployed and adapted quickly. PwC has developed a unique and innovative set of assets, platforms and ecosystem partnerships to support our clients capitalising on that growth. Working with our clients' executive teams, our Senior Solution Architect will take the lead role in developing solution and technical architectures, business case development, as well as supporting the delivery of banking transformations by providing architecture oversight and leadership. They will provide architectural and technical leadership on programmes involving business critical multi-application environments that will enable and unlock new value streams within the client's technology base. They will have wealth of experience as an architecture lead on the delivery of multi-year technology delivery programmes at global, multinational clients or will have worked at tier 1 technology firms to lead the implementation of their solutions from an architectural perspective to clients. They will have led large, distributed, multi-disciplinary teams including partner teams, across the full life-cycle of a project, practising agile delivery methods and utilising 'new' technology such as AI, IoT, etc. They will be able to provide diagnostic leadership on current architectures and be the technical and solution lead in executive level client discussions at tier 1 financial services institutions in both proposal and delivery phases. The Senior Solution Architect will have extensive experience in architecting and delivering core banking transformation in financial services. They will provide oversight of the overall architectural design by bringing deep understanding of the technology trends in financial services and several years of experience as lead architect architecting and delivering cloud native, API enabled and data led architectures in the industry. They will quickly become a trusted advisor for our clients in the area of core banking transformation and customer/products migration and be able to advise and reach consensus on architectural decisions and technology choices at senior executive level. They will set themselves apart by being able to lead and provide oversight of the development of solutions for both emerging and often cloud based technologies and client legacy systems in a way that delivers value to the client and enables the client to move to an agile technology estate. They will advise clients and partners at executive and board level, guiding them as they make appropriate software and vendor choices to support this plan and apply several best of breed technologies to create an overall solution. Ultimately they will act as a senior technical advisor to our clients' executives and board as they seek to grow revenue, remove complexity, scale globally, reduce costs and set our clients for success in the digital age. Additional information Opportunity for working from home? (Yes) Amount of time client based (70%+) Opportunity for job sharing? (No) Need to travel/overnight stays away from home (Yes) Opportunity for flexible working (hours)? (Yes) Typical Amount of time PwC office based (20%) Requirements The Senior Solution Architect will have a proven track record advising Banking & Capital Markets clients on how to transform their organisations through leading on business case development, taking lead roles in developing solution and technical architectures as well as supporting the delivery of banking transformations by providing architecture oversight and leadership. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will: Have an extensive history of leading the development of solution architectures of large technology enabled business transformations encompassing the wide range of multi-disciplinary skills required to deliver change through emerging technologies; Be a trusted adviser, with a track record of advising senior executives and company boards on executing value led technical transformation within leading organisations; Have 15+ years' experience as a technical/solution architect - with a successful track record of designing and delivering complex programmes including emerging technologies underpinned by cloud components and API, in one or more industries The candidate will have experience in all of the following areas: Industry Knowledge: Experience and understanding of the Financial Services industry, including knowledge of the technological capabilities required, challenges and vendor landscape. Core Banking Technology: deep understanding of the market and vendors, strengths and weaknesses as well as supporting capabilities (e.g. payment, accounting, risk, product management) API and Integration: extensive experience in API and ecosystem integration architectures, design patterns, API platforms and technology landscape. Digital Architectures: Architecting end to end digital solutions for business and operational teams leveraging DevOps capabilities Industry recognised front and back office applications: Broad understanding of SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, etc. and functional knowledge Transformational Enterprise Architectures: Integration/middleware solutions, Open API's, Microservices/Containerisation, etc. Enterprise cloud vendors: Migration to cloud using either Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform or any other large cloud providers Emerging Technology: Architecting solutions using emerging technologies such as AI, RPA, Drones, Robotics, Blockchain, etc. Have market presence, having a personal significant track record of delivering impactful results across a large network of clients; The ability to inspire teams, being able to rapidly establish and lead high-performing multi-disciplinary, cross geography teams drawn from across PwC, our clients' staff, and third party organisations; A proven track record of building effective relationships with third-party delivery organisations through the process of sourcing, selecting, and managing the technical engagement with vendors/software providers; An impactful and confident communication style, equally comfortable in both written and verbal communications and able to clearly explain their programmes and associated benefits / imperatives to non-technical and technical audiences alike. 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Dec 03, 2021
Full time
A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.As a member of the team, you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems. Our Digital Platforms Practice PwC has formed a world-leading digital practice to help our clients define the next generation of banking. Leveraging our heritage in financial services, plus our experience at the forefront of digital banking today, we bring a unique perspective on how to turn new and emerging technology into cut-through customer propositions, and help tomorrow's leaders to build or recalibrate business models for success. PwC has unique assets to help clients get ahead in this new age of banking. These solutions give our clients access to premade digital platforms, ecosystems and business model blueprints, so that they don't have to start from scratch. This not only helps clients to accelerate digital transformation, but also gives leaders confidence that they are steering their business and business culture in the right direction to remain successful in the future. To support this rapid growth we are looking for people who enjoy the excitement of shaping new ideas and working as part of multi-disciplinary teams on complex challenges, where each project is likely to be different to the last. We are looking for candidates with the passion and commitment, intellect and experience that can enable our clients' success in the intensely competitive economic environment of the digital age. About the role There is significant market growth expected over the coming years in Financial Services banking digital transformation driven by the following factors: Banks have spent years on developing digital apps, but not digitised their underlying platforms. Cost reduction and need for agility is bringing this to the top of the agenda It is generally acknowledged that 'custom build' digital banks by incumbents is not a good strategy and that traditional 'core banking replacement' programmes destroy value. Covid has brought channel shift and digital capabilities front and centre. Migration to digital banking just accelerated this shift by 3-4 years Banks are now looking to transform using business led, cloud based ecosystem solutions that can be configured, deployed and adapted quickly. PwC has developed a unique and innovative set of assets, platforms and ecosystem partnerships to support our clients capitalising on that growth. Working with our clients' executive teams, our Senior Solution Architect will take the lead role in developing solution and technical architectures, business case development, as well as supporting the delivery of banking transformations by providing architecture oversight and leadership. They will provide architectural and technical leadership on programmes involving business critical multi-application environments that will enable and unlock new value streams within the client's technology base. They will have wealth of experience as an architecture lead on the delivery of multi-year technology delivery programmes at global, multinational clients or will have worked at tier 1 technology firms to lead the implementation of their solutions from an architectural perspective to clients. They will have led large, distributed, multi-disciplinary teams including partner teams, across the full life-cycle of a project, practising agile delivery methods and utilising 'new' technology such as AI, IoT, etc. They will be able to provide diagnostic leadership on current architectures and be the technical and solution lead in executive level client discussions at tier 1 financial services institutions in both proposal and delivery phases. The Senior Solution Architect will have extensive experience in architecting and delivering core banking transformation in financial services. They will provide oversight of the overall architectural design by bringing deep understanding of the technology trends in financial services and several years of experience as lead architect architecting and delivering cloud native, API enabled and data led architectures in the industry. They will quickly become a trusted advisor for our clients in the area of core banking transformation and customer/products migration and be able to advise and reach consensus on architectural decisions and technology choices at senior executive level. They will set themselves apart by being able to lead and provide oversight of the development of solutions for both emerging and often cloud based technologies and client legacy systems in a way that delivers value to the client and enables the client to move to an agile technology estate. They will advise clients and partners at executive and board level, guiding them as they make appropriate software and vendor choices to support this plan and apply several best of breed technologies to create an overall solution. Ultimately they will act as a senior technical advisor to our clients' executives and board as they seek to grow revenue, remove complexity, scale globally, reduce costs and set our clients for success in the digital age. Additional information Opportunity for working from home? (Yes) Amount of time client based (70%+) Opportunity for job sharing? (No) Need to travel/overnight stays away from home (Yes) Opportunity for flexible working (hours)? (Yes) Typical Amount of time PwC office based (20%) Requirements The Senior Solution Architect will have a proven track record advising Banking & Capital Markets clients on how to transform their organisations through leading on business case development, taking lead roles in developing solution and technical architectures as well as supporting the delivery of banking transformations by providing architecture oversight and leadership. Furthermore, the ideal candidate will: Have an extensive history of leading the development of solution architectures of large technology enabled business transformations encompassing the wide range of multi-disciplinary skills required to deliver change through emerging technologies; Be a trusted adviser, with a track record of advising senior executives and company boards on executing value led technical transformation within leading organisations; Have 15+ years' experience as a technical/solution architect - with a successful track record of designing and delivering complex programmes including emerging technologies underpinned by cloud components and API, in one or more industries The candidate will have experience in all of the following areas: Industry Knowledge: Experience and understanding of the Financial Services industry, including knowledge of the technological capabilities required, challenges and vendor landscape. Core Banking Technology: deep understanding of the market and vendors, strengths and weaknesses as well as supporting capabilities (e.g. payment, accounting, risk, product management) API and Integration: extensive experience in API and ecosystem integration architectures, design patterns, API platforms and technology landscape. Digital Architectures: Architecting end to end digital solutions for business and operational teams leveraging DevOps capabilities Industry recognised front and back office applications: Broad understanding of SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, etc. and functional knowledge Transformational Enterprise Architectures: Integration/middleware solutions, Open API's, Microservices/Containerisation, etc. Enterprise cloud vendors: Migration to cloud using either Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform or any other large cloud providers Emerging Technology: Architecting solutions using emerging technologies such as AI, RPA, Drones, Robotics, Blockchain, etc. Have market presence, having a personal significant track record of delivering impactful results across a large network of clients; The ability to inspire teams, being able to rapidly establish and lead high-performing multi-disciplinary, cross geography teams drawn from across PwC, our clients' staff, and third party organisations; A proven track record of building effective relationships with third-party delivery organisations through the process of sourcing, selecting, and managing the technical engagement with vendors/software providers; An impactful and confident communication style, equally comfortable in both written and verbal communications and able to clearly explain their programmes and associated benefits / imperatives to non-technical and technical audiences alike. Consulting..... click apply for full job details
A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage. As a member of the team, you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems. Requirements Management and Architecture ● Programme Management, large scale transformation programmes ● Execution of Agile architecture definition in an Agile delivery model ● E2E Architecture definition and strategy experience ● DevOps strategy and related Op model experience ● Integration Strategy and Implementation designing and delivering modular, decoupled architectures over XaaS and on premise ecosystems Digital Architecture Solid understanding of the technology marketing cloud native offerings, common SaaS platforms and IaaS solutions in the market A proven track record in designing and implementing both Enterprise-wide data and Integration strategies, approaches, roadmaps and implementations Experience of one or more IaaS solution such as Mulesoft, Informatica IICS, Azure Integration services etc Demonstrable understanding and experience of designing modern digital architectures, including JamStack, modern JavaScript applications (e.g. React, Angular, Vue), mobile architectures and development approaches (including native, hybrid, PWA), cloud native architectures on key cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and headless/decoupled/coupled Architecture as well as wider modular and composable architecture patterns. Good all-round understanding of modern software development in a Digital environment, including awareness of best practices and standards in accessibility, security and user experience Awareness of best practice in enterprise integration, microservices, API development, security and scalability - ideally with experience/certification in one or more architecture methodologies Hands on ability on any of the following: Java, C#, Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, JavaScript, Node.JS, React, Angular, SASS, Less Consulting In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies. The skills we look for in future employees All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships. Learn more here: The Deal We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'. Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: Diversity Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion. We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.
Dec 03, 2021
Full time
A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage. As a member of the team, you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems. Requirements Management and Architecture ● Programme Management, large scale transformation programmes ● Execution of Agile architecture definition in an Agile delivery model ● E2E Architecture definition and strategy experience ● DevOps strategy and related Op model experience ● Integration Strategy and Implementation designing and delivering modular, decoupled architectures over XaaS and on premise ecosystems Digital Architecture Solid understanding of the technology marketing cloud native offerings, common SaaS platforms and IaaS solutions in the market A proven track record in designing and implementing both Enterprise-wide data and Integration strategies, approaches, roadmaps and implementations Experience of one or more IaaS solution such as Mulesoft, Informatica IICS, Azure Integration services etc Demonstrable understanding and experience of designing modern digital architectures, including JamStack, modern JavaScript applications (e.g. React, Angular, Vue), mobile architectures and development approaches (including native, hybrid, PWA), cloud native architectures on key cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and headless/decoupled/coupled Architecture as well as wider modular and composable architecture patterns. Good all-round understanding of modern software development in a Digital environment, including awareness of best practices and standards in accessibility, security and user experience Awareness of best practice in enterprise integration, microservices, API development, security and scalability - ideally with experience/certification in one or more architecture methodologies Hands on ability on any of the following: Java, C#, Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, JavaScript, Node.JS, React, Angular, SASS, Less Consulting In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies. The skills we look for in future employees All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships. Learn more here: The Deal We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'. Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: Diversity Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion. We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.
A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage. As a member of the team, you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems. Requirements Management and Architecture Programme Management, large scale transformation programme Execution of Agile architecture definition in an Agile delivery model E2E Architecture definition and strategy experience Cloud Automation experience DevOps strategy and related Op model experience Digital Architecture Solid understanding of the technology market in areas such as Digital Experience Platforms, Personalisation, Marketing Automation, E-commerce, and applications of emerging technologies in the market. In-depth digital platform experience, including awareness of the latest techniques, standards and best practices. Proven track record of delivering complex platforms at scale in both B2B and B2C settings Experience of one or more market-leading Digital Experience Platforms such as Salesforce, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Cloud, Acquia or Pega would be an advantage. Experience of one or more market leading Service platforms such as Salesforce, Genesys, Teliopti, Amazon Connect, Azure PBX. Demonstrable understanding and experience of designing modern digital architectures, including JamStack, modern JavaScript applications (e.g. React, Angular, Vue), mobile architectures and development approaches (including native, hybrid, PWA), cloud native architectures on key cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and headless/decoupled/coupled Architecture as well as wider modular and composable architecture patterns. Good all-round understanding of modern software development in a Digital environment, including awareness of best practices and standards in accessibility, security and user experience Awareness of best practice in enterprise integration, microservices, API development, security and scalability - ideally with experience/certification in one or more architecture methodologies Hands on ability on any of the following: Java, C#, Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, JavaScript, Node.JS, React, Angular, SASS, Less Consulting In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies. The skills we look for in future employees All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships. Learn more here: The Deal We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'. Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: Diversity Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion. We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.
Dec 02, 2021
Full time
A career in our Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage. As a member of the team, you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. In joining, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Information Technology with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems. Requirements Management and Architecture Programme Management, large scale transformation programme Execution of Agile architecture definition in an Agile delivery model E2E Architecture definition and strategy experience Cloud Automation experience DevOps strategy and related Op model experience Digital Architecture Solid understanding of the technology market in areas such as Digital Experience Platforms, Personalisation, Marketing Automation, E-commerce, and applications of emerging technologies in the market. In-depth digital platform experience, including awareness of the latest techniques, standards and best practices. Proven track record of delivering complex platforms at scale in both B2B and B2C settings Experience of one or more market-leading Digital Experience Platforms such as Salesforce, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Cloud, Acquia or Pega would be an advantage. Experience of one or more market leading Service platforms such as Salesforce, Genesys, Teliopti, Amazon Connect, Azure PBX. Demonstrable understanding and experience of designing modern digital architectures, including JamStack, modern JavaScript applications (e.g. React, Angular, Vue), mobile architectures and development approaches (including native, hybrid, PWA), cloud native architectures on key cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and headless/decoupled/coupled Architecture as well as wider modular and composable architecture patterns. Good all-round understanding of modern software development in a Digital environment, including awareness of best practices and standards in accessibility, security and user experience Awareness of best practice in enterprise integration, microservices, API development, security and scalability - ideally with experience/certification in one or more architecture methodologies Hands on ability on any of the following: Java, C#, Python, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, JavaScript, Node.JS, React, Angular, SASS, Less Consulting In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies. The skills we look for in future employees All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships. Learn more here: The Deal We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'. Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: Diversity Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion. We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.