Overview

Technical Architect - Azure and Security
Head Office - London, Cannon Street 
37.5 Hours & Permanent

Circle Health Group are proud to be recognised as one of the UK’s top 5 best big companies to work for as well as top 5 to work for in the health and social care sector.

We have an opportunity for a Technical Architect to join their team of staff in the Group IT department.

This is a full time role for 37.5 hours a week. 

For this role we can offer hybrid working between home and our Head Office in London with beautiful views of St Paul's Cathedral. 

Applicants should meet the following criteria:

• Degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering or related fields, equivalent proven experience as a developer, architect, business analyst or similar discipline
• Software development experience in .Net technologies (C#), Java, SQL Server or Oracle
• Knowledge of Integration and message queueing technologies; IBM ACE, Azure Service Bus, MQTT
• Working knowledge of Technical Solution processes and associated techniques in line with CMMI (e.g.. waterfall, agile developments)
• Experience as a Solution Architect over one or more years
• Detailed understanding of development languages and processes
• Solid understanding of infrastructure, network and data topologies and terms; enough to take these factors into account when specifying solutions
• Experience working with a major cloud vendor, ideally Azure
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills exercised in a Technology (IT) environment between technical and business stakeholders
• Knowledge and experience of technologies and business processes of mid-sized or large corporations
• Proven ability to deliver solutions for programmes/projects balancing time, cost and quality.
• Change management

Duties of this role include: 

• Successfully deliver projects as required by the wider Technology team and Circle Business
• Create clear & concise business and technical documentation
• Design, modify and test technical architecture, ensuring that proposals lie within strategic, performance and functional parameters
• Work with stakeholders in shaping the overall project portfolio to best meet business strategy whilst evolving the architecture towards the target
• Create and evolve principles, patterns, best practice and other artefacts to assist in design and decision making
• Ensure architectural standards are met in conjunction with the Enterprise Architect and Integration Architect. (ATAM and TOGAF, UML, Archimate)
• Use well understood and standardised modes of documentation appropriate to audiences both business and technical
• Understand how software and infrastructure sits in context and take both into account to ensure that project deliveries are performant

Salary & Benefits

Circle Health Group is committed to offering competitive starting salaries and access to a wide range of employee benefits, including:

• 25 days holiday per year + bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with service
• Private Pension Scheme
• Private Healthcare Scheme for treatment at our hospitals, covering pre-existing medical conditions
• Friends & Family Hospital Discounts
• Family Friendly policies, including enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption pay
• Life insurance
• One paid charity/volunteer day per year
• Extensive rewards and voluntary benefits including blue light card
• Free wellbeing services
• High Value Employee Referral Scheme
• Employee recognition programmes
• Industry leading training and development opportunities

…and much more!

Circle Health Group is committed to creating a diverse workforce offering inclusive opportunities for all our colleagues. Our definition of diversity goes beyond the established characteristics protected by the Equality Act, as we strive to attract candidates with diverse experiences, backgrounds, identities or expressions, skills, work styles…and more.

Circle Health Group are proud to be a Gold member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and we welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces Community. We are also part of The Valuable 500 and we pride ourselves in being a Disability Confident Employer.

We’re passionate about creating an environment where our people can thrive, grow and develop professionally and personally. Our principles and values guide our colleagues to be selfless, compassionate, committed, collaborative, brave, agile, tenacious and creative and are at the core of our purpose and culture. 

To find out more about the Circle Health Group Philosophy: https://careers.circlehealthgroup.co.uk/why-circle/our-philosophy