Job Description:
About DXC Technology
DXC Technology (DXC: NYSE) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. The company’s technology independence, global talent and extensive partner network combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is recognized among the best corporate citizens globally. For more information, visit www.dxc.com
Role Summary
Do you want to help us grow one of the most agile, dynamic and efficient teams in the digital world?
We are now looking for an experienced senior solution architect to join our team based in the UK as part of our wider Digital Applications Transformation capability.
- You’ll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of an organisation
- You’ll have a vision for services and communicate this to developers and non-developers alike.
- You’ll ensure a project’s overall technical design meets user needs and acceptance criteria, whilst conforming to time and budget constraints.
- You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively with business units and multidisciplinary teams.
- You’ll have experience in working on a roadmap of strategic change which will transform the IT Landscape moving towards modern digital interfaces, microservice architectures, API enabled systems, automation, platform as a service, and agile DevOps process
- The initial assignment requires the candidate to lead an application development project, as part of a wider programme, to modernise and enhance existing business applications.
- Over time the candidate would work on a range of varying assignments from a wide portfolio of government and commercial clients.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Understand business requirements, business process models, data models and non-functional requirements in order to produce high quality enterprise and solution architecture artefacts, defining best practice, microservice oriented and innovative solution designs that will be key to delivering the portfolio
- You will work collaboratively with other Architects, Project and Programme Managers, Product Managers, Business Analysts / SMEs, Lead Developers and partners.
- Design technical services or plan system integration, selecting necessary platforms and technologies to meet project requirements and user needs, ensuring that the key artefacts are produced to facilitate development.
- Provide technical leadership and consultancy to both internal and external development teams, ensuring that the services delivered meet the requirements (Quality and Value) whilst meeting time and budget constraints
- Build and maintain technical roadmaps, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers and ensuring decisions by development teams align with the strategy
- Encourage communication across multiple development teams to identify strategic requirements and dependencies, ensuring that key dependencies and risks are managed.
- Help develop services by contributing code, testing technologies and producing rapid prototypes
- Be involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices to adopt and sharing your experiences,
- Enable a positive technical culture, applying agile methods to development and completing quality assurance practices
- Mentor developers, setting standards and ensuring delivery targets are met
- Advise product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of current user stories, as well as those in the backlog
- Form collaborative relationships with external suppliers and partners
- Help enable the reuse of patterns, tools, and components across the whole service landscape
Essential Skills/Qualifications:
- Experience in defining high quality Solution Architecture designs, and gaining approval for such designs in a complex stakeholder environment
- Experience in working with business stakeholders to lead selection of applications and determine how they can be successfully integrated to meet enterprise requirements
- Experience leading technical teams and delivering user-focused services
- Strong software development and application architecture experience, leading the adoption of a microservices / cloud architecture underpinned by Agile methodologies and supported by DevOps principles
- Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies
- Experience scaling online services
- Awareness of emerging security issues
- Understanding of how to prioritise work in a fast, customer-centric environment
- Understanding of agile environments (SAFe), continual delivery techniques and dev-ops cultures
- understanding of how to influence senior management and communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
- UK Single National eligible for SC Clearance
Desirable Skills/Qualifications:
- Angular.js, React, Java SpringBoot, Core .net
- AWS API Gateway, Dell Boomi, Mulesoft
- Experience of integration with Enterprise Applications such as Oracle, SAP
- Cloud Platforms – AWS, Azure, GCP
DXC Technology is committed to the development of a fully inclusive workforce. All applications for employment are assessed purely on merit, against the capabilities and competencies required for the role.
DXC Technology does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, race, faith or sexual orientation.
