IT Technical Architect

We’ve got some exciting plans ahead at Trinity and are looking for experienced IT Technical Architects at all levels to join us over the next three to six months!

At the moment we are accepting expressions of interest from you and we plan to commence our assessment and selection process during the end of Autumn 2024. We are keen to learn more from you, about your level of expertise and what you can bring to the table. 

Are you an experienced and dynamic IT Technical Architect looking for an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact? Trinity College London is embarking on a period of growth and transformation, and we are seeking  a number of talented IT Technical Architects to join our team. This is a unique chance to contribute to the future of a leading internationally recognised awarding organisation, publisher and independent education charity. If you have a proven track record of delivering successful projects and are passionate about driving change, we invite you to be a part of our journey. 

About the role

At Trinity College, we have a suite of products offering exams in music, performing arts, English Language and more. We have embarked on an extensive and ambitious modernisation programme, as more of our products move online, and are looking for hands-on Technical Architects, with AWS experience, as our technology and approach matures.

As a Technical Architect, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and overseeing solutions, primarily cloud based, to meet Trinity College London’s evolving technology needs. You will collaborate with teams across the organisation, our partners, and suppliers, to ensure that we deliver high quality solutions to specification. Together with the rest of the architecture team, you will participate in the Technical Design Authority and Cloud Centre of Excellence forums, to use your expertise and experience to help shape our standards and best practices and to help projects to progress with the best solutions.

As a hands-on IT Architect, you will communicate extensively with our design and developments teams and partners, getting involved with Proof of Concept and Prototyping work, and ensuring DevOps and coding standards are well defined and adhered to. You will be able to show technical ownership and leadership, being able to take solutions from conception to implementation and support. As a technology and AWS subject matter expert, you will be able to provide guidance both within and outside the team.

About You

• Extensive experience building solutions using key elements of our technology stack, in particular AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway etc)
• Knowledge of good, secure and efficient working practices on AWS, with reference to the Well Architected Framework.
• In-depth knowledge of the creation, management, promotion and integration of business data-centric APIs.
• Understanding of data, domain-driven design, integration, and the importance of data to an organisation.
• Experience working with 3rd party suppliers to provide cohesive, integrated SaaS solutions.
• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to present technical solutions to non-technical audiences in an effective manner
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners
• Experience in a variety of requirement gathering techniques
• Excellent business process and architectural modelling skills
• Knowledge and experience of a wide variety of platforms, operating systems, systems software, business applications, ideally related to the education sector
• Experience of providing solutions for cloud, on-premise and hybrid applications
• An appetite for challenging existing practices in an effective and supportive manner
• Ability to work effectively in a rapidly evolving business environment
• Flexible approach to all situations
• Experience of working in the Education sector is desirable, preferably within an Exam Board or Awarding body
• Ideally, experience of migrating from package solutions (Oracle Siebel)

Our benefits

Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation.

As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits including generous annual leave, private health insurance, pension scheme, regular social events, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, free access to Trinity examinations and continuous training and development, plus more. 

Our commitment

Trinity College London is an equal opportunities employer and our talented people come from all walks of life. Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer, we actively welcome applications from people with disabilities and will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse. We encourage all applicants to let us know if you need a little extra help with your application, want an alternative way to put in an application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence. 

How to Apply

To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. 

Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK.

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