Role Profile

Your new company in London is searching for enthusiastic, passionate technologists to join our growing team as we strive to deliver excellence to our customers. You're a self-starter who will be an integral part of an empowered, agile team working on our ongoing transformational programs centred around Digital and Marketing Platforms. We are looking for someone with many years working in digital and marketing technologies as an Architect, especially Content Management systems (AEM, Drupal, WordPress), Adobe Marketing Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, and other key Marketing Technologies. We will be especially interested in architects with experience running Content Management Systems for multiple brands and handling multi-million visitors per month.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Business Stakeholders, Product Owners, Business Analysts to understand functional and non-functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams.
• Provide strategic guidance and direction to internal teams for improving their digital marketing effectiveness
• Contribute to Customer's digital marketing strategies based on industry best practices
• Ensure team members working in the domain understand and adhere to the architecture principles, policies, and standards to produce function-specific reference architectures and solutions.
• Manage relationships with members of Corporate Technology leadership to influence the adoption of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, standards, and policies
• Improve relationships with vendors, regulators, and industry bodies to seek and adopt industry standard methodologies in enterprise architecture and technology strategy
• Act as for a trusted advisor and leader for the wider company.
• To be the lead architect to work with other architects to define the end-to-end solution & design covering all involved systems, data, integration, security
• Manage the quality and work throughput of a team of architects across the corporate technology domain to define and deliver end-to-end architecture solutions aligned to the strategy and roadmaps
• Ensure all solutions follow Corporate Technology and enterprise solution standards, align with the overall roadmap, have good quality documentation, and follow all relevant governance steps
• Drive and establish Centre of Excellence (CoE) for key strategic platforms in the domain, e.g. Adobe.
• Help the project team to size & estimate project implementation and identify resources and abilities needed for delivery of the solution.

Skills & Experience

• Detailed knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, Cloud and Security
• Detailed knowledge of operational, delivery management (including experience in a variety of delivery methodologies), business development and strategy and organisational transformation programmes
• Experienced in architecting, delivering and supporting of following:
• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
• Adobe Analytics
• Adobe Target
• Adobe Audience Manager
• Dynamic Media and Search & Promote
• Adobe Experience Platform & CDP (Customer Data Platform)
• Drupal
• Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure
• Expertise and understanding in the following languages and technologies: HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, XML, Java, WCM, ReactJS, AngularJS, headless CMS, services-based architecture, REST, Web analytics, content targeting
• Expertise and understanding of end-to-end DevOps tools and processes
• Knowledge of current digital marketing trends and best practices on topics such as personalisation, cross channel marketing, mobile, data-driven optimisation of experiences
• On-premises to Cloud migration projects Integration projects as a result of corporate acquisitions & mergers
• Onboarding SaaS solutions
• System integrations at application, data, and network architecture domains
• Appreciation of InfoSec practices as applied in a regulated environment
• Deep technical acumen

Personal Skills & Capabilities

• Superb communication skills with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.
• Exhibit good interpersonal and team-building skills to promote a positive and collaborative work environment.
• Ability to influence across multiple functions (technical and non-technical)
• Ability to work well under pressure and tight deadlines
• To quickly build up a working knowledge of applications by working with others and reading up on new applications
• A continuous desire and willingness to learn and develop your current knowledge and skill-set. Many projects will involve applications unfamiliar to the role holder.

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