PLATFORM ARCHITECT - CONCHANGO

We require an experienced Platform Architect to work as part of our Platform Architecture team that builds highly scalable, secure infrastructures to support our customers B2C and B2B applications.

The successful candidate will be responsible for liaising between the client and Conchango, advising and architecting technical solutions, analysing requirements, developing specifications, producing designs, resource planning, risk management and small team management through to solution delivery and handover.


Duties and Responsibilities

Primarily this role will provide expert consultancy advice and management at a senior level:

Provide presales input for the physical architecture element of proposals and presentations.
Work as part of a project team to design the physical architecture of eBusiness solutions.
Capacity plan and specify the system hardware and network connectivity.
Assist the project manager with identification of the physical architecture tasks and dependencies to be included in an overall project plan.
Identify, document, and manage at a senior level the technology architecture interdependencies and implications across multiple projects.
Integration of physical and application architecture through close teamwork with the software architect and solution developers.
Build and test the development, staging and production environments.
Establish the automated procedures and processes for running, maintaining and deploying e-commerce applications.
Take responsibility for the security and robustness of the physical architecture.
Build close working relationships with customer’s hosting partners.
eBusiness architecture and application hosting consultancy.

Experience needed: Qualifications and Experience

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years commercial experience architecting and implementing large application architectures based on both Microsoft .NET and J2EE platforms.

The candidate is expected to have a broad knowledge of enterprise level infrastructure, platforms, middleware technologies, databases, application servers and project management methodologies and the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and changing environments.