Free-Work UK
Senior Solution Architect
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Secure innovation is part of CGI's Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit, focused primarily on the delivery of contemporary and innovative technical solutions for the government agencies most challenging problems. Our teams work alongside our clients to help them understand how to exploit technologies to maintain competitive advantage. Our systems are engineered for performance, security, reliability, and scalability; built with modern CI and CD tooling and techniques.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Solutions Architect to work with our software development and engineering teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, exceptional leadership skills, and a proven record of delivering high quality software products on time and within budget, with a specific focus on delivering solutions across cloud platforms.
Candidate Profile
The role offers fantastic opportunities to work on leading edge and bespoke technologies within an interesting and highly rewarding environment. We are heavily committed to developing our members and provide excellent learning and development opportunities to ensure that your knowledge and skills keep pace with the evolving technology landscape. We engender a culture of innovation, collaboration, and ownership; highly motivated self starters thrive within our organisation. Although we would like candidates to have all of the skills we need, we would consider high quality individuals who meet most of the criteria.
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Responsibilities
- Define and drive the software development processes, best practices, and development standards including code quality, test coverage including modern SRE and CICD
- Experience and working knowledge of AI models, use of AI in the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Lead the development and delivery of high quality software products that meet business requirements and customer needs.
- Research, experiment and prototype with innovative technologies and capabilities.
- Communicate with engineering teams, clients, and stakeholders.
- Work closely with product management and design teams to ensure that software products meet business requirements and customer needs
- Collaborate with other department heads to ensure smooth coordination of software development efforts with other business functions
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to software engineers. Ensure documentation and security models are maintained effectively.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
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Mandatory Requirements
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
- Extensive development experience and understanding of how to take products and solutions from concept to deployment.
- Extensive experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS,GCP,Azure)
- Comfortable building and developing Infrastructure templates with Infrastructure as Code using either: Terraform, CloudFormation, Deployment Manager or ARM
- Good understanding of Linux administration and networking
- Demonstrable troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- A passion for learning new technologies and innovation, including AI toolchains and their application.
Desirable
- Solid background in software development – Java, JavaScript, or C#/C++
- Agile Development
Nice to haves
- Experience of security protocols such as PKI, TLS etc
- Virtualisation experience, KVM/VMware
- Cisco
- Certifications on Amazon Web Services, including Solutions Architect, Developer, Google Cloud or Azure
Role can be based out of London or Leatherhead. Expectation is to be on site 3 days a week.
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