Technical Architects
| Posting date: | 19 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £57,000 to £72,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bristol, South West, B5 4BD |
| Company: | Hippo Digital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 52668744 |
Summary
About The Role
Hippo Digital is recruiting for Technical Architects to join our Hippo Herd. Technical Architects will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify needs by breaking down large scale projects into manageable chunks, ensuring governance and that the overall architecture conforms to required frameworks and standards. Expect to work with stakeholders at all levels and be an advocate for user centred design.
Our Technical Architects are multi-skilled, involved in architectural design but also involved in hands-on coding and peer reviews when required. This role would suit someone who is operating at a Senior Developer/Technical Lead level with architectural design skills.
The role in a nutshell:
- Turn business problems into technical designs
- Identify which IT products to utilise based on cost benefits analysis and research
- Engage with clients on agreed plans and provide regular updates
- Engage with designers and developers on what’s required and overseeing the progress
- Document progress and ensure the quality meets required standards
- Take complex language and processes and make them easy to understand and use insights from user research and metrics to define and improve content, and explain your decisions clearly
- Work in an agile, collaborative, multidisciplinary team
- Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders
- Run workshops with your team and stakeholders
- Work with the hippo community to share best practice to ensure high standards
About the Candidate:
- Experience of the full development lifecycle with a proven track record of end-to-end development using languages such as Java, C#, Ruby and Python or ideally Polyglot
- Evidence of designing and delivering systems using industry standard frameworks and open standards
- Experience of public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) and principles
- Strong appreciation of DevOps and Agile methods and best practice
- Strong stakeholder management with the ability to lead and influence discussions
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Strong mentoring and coaching abilities
- Demonstrable advocate for User Centred Design
About The Company
As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
- Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
- 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
- Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
- Critical illness cover
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions
- Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
- private health cover
- private dental cover
- additional company pension contributions
- additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- wellbeing contribution
- charity contributions
- tree planting
Hi, we’re Hippo Digital.
At Hippo Digital, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.
Hippo locations
We are headquartered in Leeds and located across the UK in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide, so don't let location hold you back from applying. We welcome candidates from all over the UK who possess the flexibility to work from any of our locations. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k to help make your move a smooth one. It's worth noting that, given the dynamic nature of our business, you may be required to work on-site at client locations or from your own home.
Diversity and Inclusion at Hippo Digital: A commitment to lasting change
At Hippo Digital, we're wholeheartedly dedicated to promoting diversity, equality and inclusion. For us, it's not about checking off boxes but about making a true, lasting difference. Having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem-solving while fostering an inclusive environment that benefits everyone. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply and join us on this important journey.
Hippo Digital is recruiting for Technical Architects to join our Hippo Herd. Technical Architects will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to identify needs by breaking down large scale projects into manageable chunks, ensuring governance and that the overall architecture conforms to required frameworks and standards. Expect to work with stakeholders at all levels and be an advocate for user centred design.
Our Technical Architects are multi-skilled, involved in architectural design but also involved in hands-on coding and peer reviews when required. This role would suit someone who is operating at a Senior Developer/Technical Lead level with architectural design skills.
The role in a nutshell:
- Turn business problems into technical designs
- Identify which IT products to utilise based on cost benefits analysis and research
- Engage with clients on agreed plans and provide regular updates
- Engage with designers and developers on what’s required and overseeing the progress
- Document progress and ensure the quality meets required standards
- Take complex language and processes and make them easy to understand and use insights from user research and metrics to define and improve content, and explain your decisions clearly
- Work in an agile, collaborative, multidisciplinary team
- Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders
- Run workshops with your team and stakeholders
- Work with the hippo community to share best practice to ensure high standards
About the Candidate:
- Experience of the full development lifecycle with a proven track record of end-to-end development using languages such as Java, C#, Ruby and Python or ideally Polyglot
- Evidence of designing and delivering systems using industry standard frameworks and open standards
- Experience of public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) and principles
- Strong appreciation of DevOps and Agile methods and best practice
- Strong stakeholder management with the ability to lead and influence discussions
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Strong mentoring and coaching abilities
- Demonstrable advocate for User Centred Design
About The Company
As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
- Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
- 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
- Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
- Critical illness cover
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions
- Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
- private health cover
- private dental cover
- additional company pension contributions
- additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- wellbeing contribution
- charity contributions
- tree planting
Hi, we’re Hippo Digital.
At Hippo Digital, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.
Hippo locations
We are headquartered in Leeds and located across the UK in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide, so don't let location hold you back from applying. We welcome candidates from all over the UK who possess the flexibility to work from any of our locations. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k to help make your move a smooth one. It's worth noting that, given the dynamic nature of our business, you may be required to work on-site at client locations or from your own home.
Diversity and Inclusion at Hippo Digital: A commitment to lasting change
At Hippo Digital, we're wholeheartedly dedicated to promoting diversity, equality and inclusion. For us, it's not about checking off boxes but about making a true, lasting difference. Having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem-solving while fostering an inclusive environment that benefits everyone. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply and join us on this important journey.