EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
- Understanding of a range of tech stacks (e.g. AWS, UK Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics, O365, open source, PaaS etc) and the ability to take a balanced approach to technology selection
- Experience migrating legacy technology, e.g. applying data migration strategies, migrating hosting to cloud service providers, or incrementally replacing a legacy system
- Strong software development and application architecture experience, with good knowledge of open source technologies, testing and at least one programming language
- Ability to read, understand and critique (in order to improve) solution design documentation
- Experience of, or an appreciation of the GDS Principles
- Significant consulting experience of influencing senior management and communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences through a strong ability to grasp their business challenges
- Experience in leading technical teams to deliver scalable and secure user-focused services that deliver measurable transformation
- Understanding of agile environments, continual delivery techniques and devops cultures
- Ability to quickly absorb differing strategies, remain flexible in your thinking
Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Experience scaling technology services
- Experience of cloud technologies and enterprise integration tools