Working across technical departments, providing solutions and architectural direction to enable the Zero Carbon Living mission
Asses the area’s technology architecture to refine and rationalise, set the standard for future technology and support alignment between business and technical strategies
Definition, oversight, implementation, and management of the application-wide technology architecture; Perform architectural design, consultancy and decisions for complex development initiatives
Provide and document solution designs for a variety of audiences and stakeholders
Implement prototypes/spikes when necessary to prove a technology or approach is suited
Provide high level estimates for initiatives to contribute to effort versus impact and to assist with which squad owns the work
Facilitate build vs. buy decisions; Work closely with various stakeholders (Engineering Management, Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, etc) to understand the vision across the domains and facilitate the technology and solutions alignment to the organisation's goals
Work with the engineering teams to define coding best practices and standards and provide guidance and governance to engineers to ensure they are adhered to. Raise the bar on technical excellence
Advocate Agile and DevOps best practice adoption so that we move towards CI/CD; Participate in sprint planning where necessary to provide additional information on user stories to help the engineers estimate
Build strong relationships with engineering squads, ensuring direction or provided but still enabling the squads to collaborate and input into overarching solutions
