Platform Technical Architect - Defence

CAPABILITY / JOB FAMILY GROUP: Platforms  

JOB FAMILY: Platform Architecture  

JOB PROFILE TITLE: Platform Solution Architect  

MANAGEMENT LEVEL: Manager  

JOB PROFILE DESCRIPTION  

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:  

As a Platform Solution Architect (Manager) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for leading multi-skilled agile teams to design and deliver high quality solutions on public cloud which delight our customers. As a technical leader in Kainos, you’ll work with customer architects and talented colleagues to design, automate, build and support modern digital service platforms. You’ll estimate effort and advise on the impact of technical decisions surrounding technology choices. You’ll lead with the creation of policy and standards, provide assurance across Kainos delivery projects and share knowledge with/mentor those around you. You’ll continually be learning about new technologies and looking to the future for how we adopt them for customer benefit.  

Your key responsibilities will include:  

• Championing a DevOps culture - You’ll lead colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security capabilities to design solutions of the highest quality which meet all non-functional requirements – you’ll do all that it takes to ensure Kainos delivery projects are successful.  

• Championing technology for positive impact – You’ll keep appraised of the latest technologies/tools and champion their use for benefit both within and outside of Kainos.  

• Developing Kainos as a business – You contribute to technology strategy and help Kainos to identify, qualify and win new opportunities.  

• Providing Leadership – You’ll provide technical leadership – typically across projects - which may sometimes require you to be hands-on and on others to take difficult, but necessary decisions.  

• Being opinionated – As a respected leader, you’ll offer your opinions and critique with a view to improve the quality of our solutions. You won’t wait to be asked, you’ll proactively share knowledge through internal Kainos forums and more widely in industry.  

• Being a role model – You’ll support your colleagues and reconcile the needs of the individual with the needs of the team, you will embody the Kainos values. You’ll be the person people look up to – people trust your decisions because they are transparent and justified. You’ll be passionate and committed to ensuring Kainos projects are successful.  

• Putting people first & developing others – You’ll manage, coach and develop a small number of senior staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development.  

MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS  

• A desire to work on some of the most complex and ambitious programmes focused on keeping our country safe 

• Experience working within Defence sector or similar  

• Hold current DV clearance  

• Comfortable with significant travel and on-site working (up to 4 days per week) 

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to simply and clearly communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience, working closely with customers in a consulting environment.  

• Excellent prioritisation and time management skills, with the ability to work across a number of major projects simultaneously.  

• We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team leadership skills across teams and fostering a DevOps culture.  

• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing senior members of your team and wider community.  

• Demonstrable personal ownership of:  

o Delivering all aspects of modern digital service platforms in production environments  

o Prioritizing non-functional concerns for customers and incorporating them into the platform design  

o Making effective – and sometimes difficult - decisions within fast-moving delivery environments and owning the outcomes  

• Significant expertise in:  

o Using multiple public cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) to build solutions across a variety of problem domains and integrating native SaaS and PaaS offerings into your solution.  

o Understanding of whole solution architecture concepts.  

o Utilizing the latest Continuous Delivery techniques for releasing operationally ready software to production.  

• Demonstrable experience in:  

o Using the latest container orchestration platforms including Kubernetes.  

o Applying cloud Native tooling and approaches.  

o Pro-actively developing business within an account with sales and account managers.  

o Proven experience being accountable for all sizes of technology delivery challenges, e.g. project, multi-team programme.  

o Developing and contributing to businesses cases promoting public cloud adoption.  

 o Working across various security classifications and understanding of the design implications and ways of working changes  

DESIRABLE  

• Experience working as a part of an account team, taking part in business development activities  

• Experience in Google Cloud or Red Hat 

• Third level – or equivalent - qualification in a related discipline.  

• Obtained certification with a public cloud provider (AWS/Azure).  

• Obtained certification with another respected professional body (CNCF).  

• Actively shares their thoughts and views on technology both internally and externally.  

• Use of automation tooling and proficient in one of the following: Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy.  

WHO YOU ARE:  

Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience.  

These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.  

ABOUT US  

At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier.  

We build strong relationships with our customers and go beyond to change the way they work today and the impact they have tomorrow.  

Our two specialist practices, Digital Services and Workday, work globally for clients across healthcare, commercial and the public sector to make the world a little bit better, day by day.  

For more information, see kainos.com. 

So what are you waiting for? Let’s write the next incredible chapter of our story together. 

Embracing our differences

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are. We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field. Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.