Technical Architect

Technical Architect

Position Description

The role offers fantastic opportunities to work on leading edge and bespoke technologies within an interesting and highly rewarding environment. We are heavily committed to developing our members and will provide excellent learning and development opportunities to ensure that your knowledge and skills keep pace with the evolving technology landscape. We engender a culture of innovation, collaboration and ownership; highly motivated self-starters thrive within our organisation. This role is an exciting opportunity to help set technical direction and provide technical leadership for highly motivated and talented development teams.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2024 and has been named one of the 'World's Best Employers' by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector. Join us and you'll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We'll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Secure Innovation is part of CGI's Space, Defence and Intelligence business unit, focused primarily on the delivery of contemporary and innovative technical solutions for the government agencies most challenging problems. Our teams work alongside our clients to help them understand how to exploit technologies to maintain competitive advantage. Our systems are engineered for performance, security, reliability and scalability; built with modern CI and CD tooling and techniques. We are currently looking for a Technical Architect to help with the delivery of ambitious and novel software solutions - being able to think outside of the box to overcome technical challenges is essential!

Due to the nature of the programme all applicants must hold SC clearance with a view of gaining HLC in the future.

Your future duties and responsibilities

1. Design and deliver high-quality technical solutions.
2. Lead systems engineering and systems integration efforts.
3. Provide technical assurance for bids and proposals.
4. Work with public cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure), particularly Infrastructure as Code.
5. Build, lead, and mentor development teams.
6. Communicate effectively with both management and engineering teams.
7. Develop software using modern languages such as Java, Go, Python, with well-documented and standardized code.
8. Manage system testing and implement automated testing techniques (unit tests, integration tests, mocking/stubbing).
9. Deploy and develop on Linux platforms, including package management and networking configurations.
10. Apply modern DevOps methodologies and technologies.
11. Use automation/configuration management tools like Ansible.
12. Quickly learn and work with a wide variety of technologies.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

1. Able to produce high quality technical solutions and designs.
2. Experience of systems engineering and systems integration.
3. Experience of providing technical assurance for bids/proposals.
4. Experience of public cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure) and principles, in particular Infrastructure as Code.
5. Experience of building, leading and mentoring development teams.
6. Excellent interpersonal skills and able to communicate with both management and software engineers.
7. Experience of developing using modern development languages (e.g. Java, Go, Python etc) with code written to a common standard and well-documented.
8. Experience of System Testing and experience of automated testing - e.g. unit tests, integration tests, mocking/stubbing.
9. Experience of using Linux as a deployment platform and day-to-day development environment - e.g. has experience of package management, networking configuration etc.
10. Good understanding of and experience with Modern DevOps methodology and technologies.
11. Experience of automation/configuration management (i.e. Ansible).
12. Experience with a wide variety of technologies, and ability and enthusiasm to learn new technologies quickly.

Desirable Skills:

1. Experience of SQL (MySQL/Oracle) and a good understanding of NoSQL Object Stores, e.g. ElasticSearch.
2. Experience of writing RESTful web services.

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Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

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