Experienced Enterprise Platform Architect with advanced knowledge in the following key areas:

Deployment Architecture (performance, monitoring, operations), Bench-marking (Agile, program managements, network management), Design (compliance, security), Network Engineering (planning, provision). 

Experience to lead the transformation of clients through technology by leveraging your knowledge and curiosity of current and future enterprise technologies, methods and approaches. Enable clients to navigate and scale adoption of New IT methodologies and operating models that drive business agility e.g.:  Systems Reliability Engineering, scaled Agile frameworks, DevOps, lean architecture. Inspire clients with vision and understanding the art of the possible. Facilitate workshops to engage clients in Delivery and Operational operating models, and transformation governance.

Develop business opportunities that bring innovative technology solutions to a client’s ways of working.  Focus on building trusted relationship with senior client stakeholders, influencing corporate strategy, and building supporting vision documents. Develop business opportunities by creating strategic innovative technology solutions that transforms and enhances our client’s technology offering.

Responsibilities:

•             Enable clients to navigate and scale adoption of New IT methodologies and operating models that drive business agility using SRE, Agile frameworks, DevOps etc.

•             Define client’s Delivery, Operational and Governance transformation strategy and roadmaps

•             Lead client DevOps capability assessments and providing industry subject matter expertise on topics like: agile, DevOps, SRE, lean delivery

•             Create and facilitate workshops to engage clients to define future state roadmaps and models, and transformation governance

•             Develop business opportunities that bring innovative technology solutions to a client’s ways of working

•             Focus on building trusted relationship with senior client stakeholders, influencing corporate strategy, and building supporting vision documents.

•             Design and direct all aspects of Continuous Delivery implementation

•             Advise, lead and work on high impact activities within the systems development lifecycle, and provide advisory across IT.

Requirements:

•             15+ years advising, scoping and delivering transformative technology services within Banking, Capital Markets, or Insurance industries.

•             5 years+ managing an SRE (or related) team that operates in a public cloud (AWS), highly distributed environment is preferred

•             Experience in managing a release pipeline, from planning to deployment to monitoring impact

•             Previous experience building a new SRE team from the ground up and progressively increasing the teams responsibilities by coaching the team through the process of on-boarding services into the team

•             A passion for SRE/DevOps principals and a clear drive to remove toil and run highly resilient/automated systems

•             Experience with DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and related tools, such as GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, or equivalents.

•             Experience in an Agile delivery environment

•             Experience as a hands-on software engineer so you understand the core principles of the engineering work

•             Experience supporting customer problems and communication

•             Experience or interest in speaking/presenting at tech conferences.

•             Experience in communication and organization in large, distributed teams

•             A Bachelor’s degree is required

•             Consulting Experience is a plus