Senior Architect - Private Equity

Endava ,
London, Greater London
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Endava is a global technology company, with over 20 years of experience of working with some of the world's leading Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Media, Technology, and Retail companies. Through the Digital Evolution, Agile Transformation and Automation solutions, Endava is helping clients be more engaging, responsive and efficient. Endava has close to 6,000 employees located in offices in North America and Western Europe and delivery centres in Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Colombia. Along with investing in long term customer relationships, Endava recognized the importance of providing rewarding and challenging careers for people and, by doing so, has established itself as the employer of choice. What we are looking for We are seeking a dynamic and highly experienced technical leader with outstanding client-facing skills. As a senior architect (Private Equity), you will be taking an active role on projects exploring companies as part of due diligence and pre-acquisition opportunities for Endava clients and partners. To deliver on these opportunities, the successful candidate, will have a proven track record in solution and enterprise architecture and be keen to explore how these skills can be applied in assessing organisations opportunities for growth. This will require bringing previous and orthogonal experience to bear in reviewing architectures in organisations and making recommendations on how value can be created and expanded. Additionally, Endava's strength is in delivering large scale transformational IT. As such the candidate would be expected to be a key part of teams helping organisations transform in support of post-acquisition value generation. Turning the recommendations from pre-acquisition activities into work that Endava's core offering can deliver on. In this role you must be confident in engaging in a range of conversations with senior client management and staff, have the ability to lead discussions, workshops & interviews, have the technical ability to both architect and design complex enterprise solutions, and the technical experience to specify future potential architectures. Your Responsibilities * Supporting pre-sales and 'pitch' activity by providing technical and solution expertise to the sales team and participating in sales calls to clients * Actively shaping scope, requirements and technical details of projects * Developing architectural solutions in collaboration with clients. Reviewing and validating solutions produced by clients * Working with Endava teams on design and estimation tasks * 10 years of experience in delivering quality software solutions * Exceptional client-facing communications skills, both written and verbal * Expertise with architecting, designing, delivering large systems implemented in one or more popular technology stacks (including those based on Java, .Net, Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc) * Experience in pre-sales efforts and running client engagements from a technical perspective * Extensive experience in application architectures * Understands a broad range of architectural patterns and styles (e.g. SOA, Microservices, etc) * Experience in modernizing legacy architectures * In-depth knowledge of one or more cloud platforms (eg. AWS, Azure) * Knowledge of database architectures, data modeling, SQL and NoSQL approaches * Proficiency in creating a broad range of architecture documentation * Ability to conduct in-depth design reviews of large systems * Understanding of DevOps culture, practices and tools Desirable * Enterprise Architecture experience * Advanced degree in computer science or related field * Knowledge of functional programming in one or more languages * Experience with one or more leading SaaS platforms such as Salesforce.com * Exposure to offshore development using both agile and other delivery techniques * In-depth knowledge with one or more complex technical domains, including Distributed Cache Solutions, Master Data Management, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Visualization, Augmented Reality, Internet of things, etc * Experience with Data Warehouse, ETL, dashboard, and associated reporting solutions is a big plus * Experience with one or more CMS platforms such as Sitecore or others. * Wide exposure to a variety of computer languages (Go, Rust, Ruby, Python, etc) * Experience with Continuous Delivery * Experience working in the Media, Healthcare, Financial, Pharma, or Retail sectors * Public speaking experience

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