The role

Utilising a broad range of industry best-of-breed methods, our AWS Architects ideate and design SoftwareONE’s products, cloud infrastructure & automation platforms, defining global standards and ensuring architectural principles are applied. 

Working closely with multiple practice areas and stakeholders across our business, they focus on keeping us ahead of the curve, continuously innovating and improving our solutions, frameworks, methods, processes and tooling. As part of our acquisition strategy, our architects work closely with new members of the SWO family, collaborating with like-minded architects and engineers on integrating and evolving exciting new capabilities. 

Personal Specifications 

• Passion for problem solving and enthusiasm for great customer outcomes 
• Ability to communicate to technical and non-technical stakeholders 
• Keen learner who always strives to expand knowledge and skills 
• Collaborative team player who also takes ownership and can depend on their own initiative 
• Desire to build something new, innovative, and disruptive 
• An excellent command of English, both written & spoken. Additional languages are a bonus! 

Knowledge, Experience, and Expertise 

• Deep expertise in designing AWS environments; service provider, migration and transformation experience is a bonus 
• Comfortable presenting, sharing knowledge and opinions through both formal and informal methods to a variety of audiences, via multiple mediums such as whiteboarding, phone / video conference, stage, etc. 
• You have experience leading and collaborating in design workshops, exploring requirements and mapping solutions 
• Experience with Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tools and processes would be a distinct advantage 
• Experience designing security solutions in large environments would be valuable 
• You have a good understanding of modern application landscapes and their dependencies on the infrastructure platform 
• Any appreciable application development, DevOps or Big Data experience is not required but would be advantageous 
• Knowledge of common operating systems (Linux / Windows), networking, structured and unstructured datastores 
• Certified in at least one public cloud, ideally to Professional level.