Department:

Development

Location:

Warrington

Reporting to:

Lead Architect

Background:

System C developers impact millions of people every day through our range of healthcare software systems. Used extensively throughout the NHS, you might be wondering why you have never heard of us – we pay far more attention to our software delivering value than shouting about our latest contracts.

We are looking for a talented and experienced Cloud architect to join our Architecture team.

The person we are looking for will need to have 2+ years of commercial experience with Azure, who can demonstrate a real passion for cloud architecture, with a flexible and creative attitude, good communication skills and a strong work ethic.

Working within an existing team that is focused on creating a scalable and resilient cloud hosting model, taking ideas from proof of concept to productization. The individual will have a workload covering (but not limited to):

• Advising teams on improvements to cloud hosted products
• Creating solutions that fit well within the existing Azure estate and methodology
• Clean hand-over of well-understood solutions to the SRE team
• Helping product teams understand best-practise for cloud-hosted systems
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Security reviews and risk mitigation
• Building services that are resilient and scalable
• Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and advising how they can be used to improve the existing architecture

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team
• Take part in architectural discussions with technical / non-technical team members
• Able to self-manage and self-motivate
• An eye for detail, well-organised and a desire to adhere to best practices
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills
• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Have a desire to keep up with the latest tools and techniques
• Passion about your craft and love of sharing knowledge
• An inquisitive mind and a dogged determination to solve complex problems

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

Must Have:

• Understanding of cloud architecture concepts and best practise
• Experience with building resilient and fault tolerant solutions
• Proven experience of migrating existing on-prem apps to a cloud hosted model
• Excellent C# skills
• A thorough understanding of Azure components. Key areas:
  • Service Bus topics and subscriptions
  • Event Hub
  • Azure Functions
  • Cosmos DB
  • Azure SQL
• Familiarity with patterns used to create well architected solutions
• An understanding of securing data exchange over wide area networks
• A proven track record of delivering successful projects

Advantageous:

• Containerisation in the Azure platform
• Health Care and Clinical systems
• Experience working within an Agile development environment
• Developed high availability multi-user system
• Microsoft certification(s) in Azure

Applications:

Please apply in writing, sending a covering letter & CV to hrrecruitment@systemc.com