Senior Technical Manager, Architecture

The Department

The IT Operations and Systems Department provides the Club’s internal and external customers with expected IT System and Services that enable business operations. The Department’s goal is to provide the Club’s IT customers with best in class IT service offerings and experience.

IT Operations and Systems serves as the primary user engagement channel for IT for help and service offerings fulfillment. Engagement is offered 24x7 via phone, email and direct on-site support.

IT Operations and Systems is the Service owner responsible for; IT Data Computing facilities; production Infrastructure platforms; Incident, Change, Problem, Resilience, Capacity, Configuration, Procurement functions; Service Assurance and Quality management; and Level 1 / 2 system support functions.

The Job

Lead in delivering the solution architecture of enterprise scale, end-to-end solution for major projects; guide projects in their technology and vendor selections; in particular be responsible for deliverables such as Business Requirement Documents (BRDs, Architectural Design Specification (ADS), and estimations for initiatives)

Lead in establishing and evolving an architecture framework of data, application, or technology policies, principles, patterns, standards and guidelines, and facilitate their adoption; In particular documenting principles, policies, patterns, standards and guidelines, and educating the team and broader IT community about these

Lead the development of the Club’s IT architecture and facilitate its adoption; participate and drive the review of technology and its selection and review system designs for compliance with established architecture or the evolution of that architecture

Lead in walk-throughs and reviews of systems design

Prototype novel business solutions; evaluate or pilot business-enabling solutions

Lead the resolution of technically complex, cross-system or long term issues that impact business operation

Provide high level consultancy or advice to management and technical teams to assist in decision-making

Monitor and track progress of work products to ensure delivery according to predetermined estimates and plans

Mentor team members ensuring that the team has appropriate skill levels and in the areas of requirements capture and solution architecture. Ensure that the team have sufficient knowledge of the Club’s policies and architectures in particular the architectures of Enterprise Integration systems

About You

• University degree or above in Computer science or Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in the EDA (Event-Driven Architecture) design and development.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in architectural design and software development of large scale systems.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in managing software development teams dealing with all aspect of the software development lifecycle as well as operational support of systems in production.
• Experience working on messaging broker platforms and API Management platforms in, large scale distributed, high availability and high performance systems
• Experience working with traditional organizations and driving change and improvements through the adoption of modern technologies and processes to achieve better outcomes for the business and technology.
• Experience defining the vision and direction for the architects and developers to ensure alignment of best practice in technology while providing for reliable operations of systems
• Excellent ability to quickly pick up new technologies and trends and ensure that they are being applied in appropriate manner.
• Excellent problem analysis skills with ability to quickly and accurately provide direction and decisions for teams to appropriate solve issues in a targeted manner.
• Very strong communications skills to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in Java or other modern programming language in a Linux environment and comes from a development background.
• Broad and deep architecture knowledge and skills, covering; solution, application, infrastructure, data and integration
• Export knowledge and experience of technology and process frameworks, architecture patterns and design patterns
• Export knowledge and experience of EDA (Event-Driven Architecture) and RDA (Request-Driven Architecture)
• Deep knowledge and experience in integration technologies such as Solace, Kafka, Tibco, AWS SQS, message brokers and API Management solutions and the related open standards such as OpenAPI, AsynchAPI and OAuth2
• Extensive experience with practicing DevOps, Agile, and common tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with application development on C / C++, Java or C# .net platform, JSON, XML;
• Experience with Cloud development such as VMware, AWS, Azure, Docker, Container, Kubernetes and creating Solace event mesh solution
• Working knowledge of agile and PDLC process flow

Terms of Employment

The level of appointment will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Closing Date

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.