Group Architect - UK

You will be responsible for 2 main areas: delivery and pre-sales, bringing a hands-on approach as you will be more involved in the delivery elements from the start.

Delivery responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the design, development and client teams to find efficient technical solutions for business requirements
• Design solid application and data architecture to meet the project needs
• Oversee execution of key projects and help teams to solve challenges during ongoing project development
• Coordinate and work on program and company level technical initiatives
• Work on and oversee client specific tools and solutions that span multiple projects
• Ensure the team understands system security, logging, monitoring and performance best practices to deliver robust and supportable solutions
• Drive standards and quality of delivery with minimal technical debt

Pre-sales responsibilities include:

• Work closely with the program leadership to support sales and pre-sales activities such as estimating new projects and preparing proposals
• Analyze the requirements and propose technical solutions
• Estimate projects and provide estimate reviews
• Present proposals to the client and represent the team from the technical standpoint
• Hand over won projects to delivery teams and ensure that all findings and expectations of the pre-sales phase are captured and understood

• Have a track record of professional experience in a team lead, lead developer or similar position that includes pre-sales, architecture and technical delivery;
• Proven experience of hands-on development experience;
• Strong knowledge of PHP and either Drupal, Symfony or Laravel;
• Solid knowledge of ES6 JavaScript and experience with React, Vue.JS or Angular;
• Sound experience with relational and non-relational databases;
• Experience designing and developing sophisticated enterprise systems;
• Professional level English is required for this post.

Soft skills:

• Responsibility and leadership by example;
• Pro-activity and ability to find solutions to project challenges;
• Desire to learn and improve yourself and the teams you work with.

As a plus

• Experience with AWS ecosystem;
• Solid knowledge of web server administration, virtualization and containerization (Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Vagrant);
• Open source contributions.

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  Remote working opportunity (within the UK);
• Laptop;
• Paid vacation days, private pension, health insurance;
• Competitive salary package;
• The opportunity to be part of a multinational team, in a company with global operations!

You can expect our recruitment process to be something like this:

• "Get to know you" chat with a member of our Talent Team;
• Video call to get into your world;
• Final panel chat with our Program Leadership and HR;
• And finally an offer!

FFW is a digital agency built on technology, driven by data, and focused on user experience. The world’s largest brands have relied on to build accessible, creative and user-friendly digital solutions that deliver great results. We bring together more than 400 people working across over 19 offices in 11 countries, to form a team who can provide awesome web-based solutions.