Senior Solutions Architect (Javascript, Node, React, Express, Mongo)

Job Title:
Senior Solutions Architect (Javascript, Node, React, Express, Mongo)

Job Description:

The difference you will make

The role of a Solution Architect is to work alongside our Engineering Leads to supply architectural solutions for agile software teams in the delivery of related products.

You will help translate business requirements into coherent and effective solutions, leveraging other solution architects and engineers to identify and apply appropriate patterns to solve business problems.

You will document solution designs and ensure they are communicated and peer reviewed appropriately to the point of signoff.

You will assist the engineering leadership team in shaping and estimating new projects and supplying options for technical approaches for new business ideas.

You will keep abreast of emergent software industry practices and technologies and assess and advise on the opportunities and risks of using them within the media programme.
You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of software design patterns including architectural approaches to the development of applications, data, integration, infrastructure and security.

You will possess leadership skills in proactively driving forward and communicating solutions effectively.

You will have demonstrated evidence of applying technology to solve business problems with an all round solution architecture experience within data-rich and analytics-focused environments.

You will also have experience of dealing with senior business stakeholders and people across the technology domain.

You will equally have experience of frontend SPA frameworks and exposure to the trends in micro frontends.

What you will be doing

Work with Engineering and Architecture leads to formulate solutions, using workshop techniques where appropriate, in line with business goals and with the Architectural Roadmap for Media Systems.

• Document and help implement detailed solutions, ensuring that application patterns adhere to platform, enterprise, security and infrastructure standards.
• Lead in the peer review process to ensure timely review and signoff of proposed solutions.
• Provide hands on support, when required, during technical investigations and PoCs during the discovery phase.
• Help define the art of the possible in response to business requests for technical solutions to business problems by identifying technical solutions, options and estimates for new ideas
• Collaborate with others in the team to deliver secure, reliable, robust, scalable solutions which can be built, tested and deployed using automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Take ownership of architectural solutions for your team throughout the delivery cycle, helping to resolve blockers and challenges as they emerge.
• Demonstrate continued learning and evaluation of the latest methods, tools and technologies.

What you'll bring

• Experience of application architecture, engineering, integration, data modeling & delivery approaches demonstrating:
  • Front-end to back-end service integration.
  • Content Management.
  • East to west cross platform integration.
  • Security by design.

• Good knowledge of off the shelf open source technologies and services that could be brought to bear as part of application solutions
• Experienced developer with proficiency in some of the following beneficial: Typescript, Javascript, Node, React, Express, Mongo, Graph QL, Python, Java, C#, relational databases (SQL Server, Postgres), graph databases, search, data warehouses, data lakes.
• Knowledge of and experience in cloud platforms, ideally Azure but AWS and GCP also welcome, including experience of using serverless technologies (Azure Functions or AWS Lambda)
• Experience of compositional micro-frontends using Webpack
• Highly experienced in agile test driven software development.
• Knowledge of and experience in microservice architecture essential.
• Knowledge of and experience in CI/CD.
• Working experience with Docker, containers and/or Kubernetes an advantage.

Behavioural Skills

• Is a communicator - have strong verbal, written and non-verbal communication skills.
• Has a highly professional, flexible, energetic and collaborative approach
• Converts complexity into order and progress - Is able to put structure over an environment of high ambiguity and complexity to achieve practical outcomes.
• Able to facilitate others to reach an appropriate conclusion

What else you need to know

We operate on a hybrid working basis and offer flexible working conditions. The team work out of our London office in NW1.

About dentsu international

Part of Dentsu Group, Dentsu International is a network designed for what's next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Dentsu delivers people-focused solutions and services to drive better business and societal outcomes. This is delivered through five global leadership brands - Carat, Dentsu Creative, dentsu X, iProspect and Merkle, each with deep specialisms.

Dentsu International's radically collaborative team of diverse creators unifies people, clients and capabilities through horizontal creativity to help clients create culture, change society, and invent the future.

Powered by 100% renewable energy, Dentsu International operates in over 145 markets worldwide with more than 46,000 dedicated specialists, and partners with 95 of the top 100 global advertisers.

www.dentsu.com

About Dentsu Group (dentsu)

Led by Dentsu Group Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004), a pure holding company established on January 1, 2020, the Dentsu Group encompasses two operational networks: dentsu japan network, which oversees Dentsu's agency operations in Japan, and dentsu international, its international business headquarters in London, which oversees Dentsu's agency operations outside of Japan.

With a strong presence in approximately 145 countries and regions across five continents and with 65,000 dedicated professionals, the Dentsu Group provides a comprehensive range of client-centric integrated communications, media and digital services through its five leadership brands-Carat, dentsu X, iProspect, Dentsu Creative, and Merkle-as well as through Dentsu Japan Network companies, including Dentsu Inc., the world's largest single brand agency with a history of innovation. The Group is also active in the production and marketing of sports and entertainment content on a global scale.

How we'll reward you

As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs

Inclusion and Diversity

We're proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won't define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That's what we care about. So, whether you're joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can't promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

Location:
London

Brand:
Dentsu

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent]]>