Cloud Architect

Role: Technical Cloud Architect

Job Type: Permanent

Location:London/Newcastle/Leeds - United Kingdom

Ready to utilise your knowledge in Public Services industry?

Are you passionate about AWS Cloud and analysis into technical design that describes the solution?

We have an exciting opportunity for you as a Technical Cloud Architect!

Careers at TCS: It means more.

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Be part of an exciting team where you will be challenged every day.
• Work closely with the range of teams within the business to bring products to life.
• Work with customers and identify opportunities to support their strategy and improve their processes across functions.

The Role

As a Technical Cloud Architect, you would be expected to undertake structured analysis of technical issues and subsequently translate this analysis into technical design that describes the solution. You will collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders and reuse technical components. The role requires you to resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess Technical Responses (RFI and RFPs) & make preferred recommendations to feed into final tender decisions.
• Stakeholder management wherein multiple technical teams will be involved.
• End-to-end solution design for agile product teams.
• Support, advise, and influence teams in building and maintaining Product/Feature roadmap, planning and in setting Sprint Goals.
• Support, advise, and influence technical debt vs features choices, providing advice of skills required within the team.
• Support positive collaboration with other and external teams that form part of the solution or roadmap.
• Document the architecture and high-level solution designs including peer reviews and alignment to principles, standards, and reference architecture.

Your Profile

Key Skills/Knowledge/Experience:

• Good experience of defining RFPs and RFIs.
• Hands on experience in Java/Spring boot or node.js, express framework, Git, Kafka and CI/CD Pipelines.
• Strong experience in AWS Cloud.
• AWS PaaS such as: KMS, Secrets Manager, AWS DocumentDB, RDS Postgres, SQS.
• Automated testing, contract testing, Trunk based development and Git Flow.
• CDDO Service Standards and API First.
• Application architecture experience with experience of working in microservices and event driven architecture.
• Broad hands-on knowledge of AWS infrastructure & Security solutions and Services, in production environments.

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing

At TCS, we believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our diversity motto is ‘Inclusion without Exception’.

You’ll find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join. Our diversity, inclusion and social activities include LGBTQ+ and mental health networks, as well as health and wellness initiatives and sports events (we even sponsor the London Marathon).

We are open to all and treat applications equally, regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, or beliefs.

If you are an applicant who needs an accommodation due to a disability to complete an employment application, or during any phase of the hiring process, please contact us at [email protected] with the subject line: “Disability Accommodation Request”.

Due to a high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion.

Join us and do more of what matters. Apply online now.