Staff Engineer (Architect) – Researcher Operations

Deine Aufgaben

• “safe people” and “safe projects”. As well as the responsibilities specific to the researcher operations area, as a member of the Architecture team you will also play a key role in general architecture activities at Our Future Health - working with other engineers to guide the wider platform design, work on cross-platform projects which add new platform-side capabilities, represent technology in the early stages of future projects, and so on. Responsibilities inc - Day to day work will vary depending on what your focus is at that time, but will include things like: Represent technology/architecture/engineering in cross-functional project teams throughout a project’s lifecycle (from ideation to implementation). Work within the team to identify optimal solutions for challenges, communicate them outwards to stakeholders and work with others to implement them. Work with your peer staff engineers and Head of Engineering to act as a guiding mind for the engineering/architecture in your business area. Identify areas for improvement and work with other leaders to implement. Lead decision-making on critical technical strategy and implementations which affect your business area. Identify opportunities for and then carry out specific pieces of high-impact hands-on work where it makes sense. Work with partners and suppliers to integrate their systems with Our Future Health’s. Support your colleagues with pairing, peer reviews, coaching, discussion, and other collaborative activities that help everyone reach high standards and result in the delivery of high-quality software products. Contribute to the reliability, resilience and ongoing evolution of critical research platform services and live systems where required. Requirements We welcome applications from all who may not feel they match the full criteria, so if you have most of the below, we'd like to hear from you: Technical Skills You have led the architectural design of systems. Experience of configuring and integrating off-the-shelf SaaS systems with bespoke web and backend applications, via APIs, event-driven architectures, etc. Appreciation of the balance between “build” and “buy”, experience of weighing up pros and cons to make a selection which will fit into the wider organisation’s systems and meet the needs of organisational internal users and goals. Knowledge and experience of building cloud-hosted consumer web applications and backend services using open source technologies such as Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python in a start

Deine Voraussetzungen

• Relevant work experience
• Strong communication skills