Infrastructure Architect - City of London - Insurance

The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for the specification and management delivery of conceptual, logical and physical technology architectures (along with appropriate technology standards and strategies, time-lines, capital and labour estimates) for defined systems or sub-systems within small, medium or large projects.

The Infrastructure Architect needs to be strong in technology, but also needs to be comfortable with other domains with respect to the solution, and be able to direct and manage specialists (e.g. Product Vendors) in all these areas to produce a coherent solution for the specified system or sub-system.

The role is broad, and candidates must be capable of leveraging their core business experience to advise on a broad range of projects including infrastructure architecture, performance engineering, deployment design, security and systems management.

The role requires strategic thinking and planning. The Infrastructure Architect will be responsible for the enterprise Technical Directions Model i.e. the road-map for infrastructure technology adoption for the Business Planning period (typically the next 4-5 years). This is a fixed term role with the potential to make permanent.

Main Responsibilities

• Captures technical requirements and defines the infrastructure architectures and high-level solution designs and oversees the implementation of these solution designs
• Assures configuration and implementation of products aligns with the solution designs in support of cross functional business needs
• Oversees product configuration, implementation and support. To advise on best practice to achieve high levels of business satisfaction
• Co-ordinates infrastructure architectures and high-level designs, in conjunction with external partners, Operations, other teams, Project Management and business representatives
• Drives product evaluation and selection of new infrastructure products to meet strategic business initiatives. This may include project activities from proof-of-concepts, production deployment and handover to operations
• Establishes the overall system architecture documentation and implement standards and guidelines that guide the design and technology solutions in collaboration with the Head of Architecture, Application Architect(s), Enterprise Architect, Business Architect, Solution Architect and Information Security Officer.
• Attends Project team meetings and feedback on architecture and design progress, product updates and road maps
• Assists Sourcing Performance Management to ensure Vendors deliver on SLAs and track progress on open requests for information and enhancements
• Evaluates technologies to determine strengths and weaknesses in architecture, implementation and suitability. Makes recommendations consistent with the vision of the business
• Delivers technology functionality that meets technical, quality and financial standards

Relevant Experience

• At least 10 years in IT in various roles including infrastructure, architecture and design roles
• Strategic focus: aligns and integrates the strategic priorities with the direction and strategic priorities of the broader organisation
• STR
• Experience of current architectural trends e.g. SOA, Cloud, Digital, RPA
• Experience in dealing with multiple suppliers
• Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration and application layers

Essential

• Service Orientated Architecture
• Infrastructure Architecture and design
• Microsoft and Cloud Technologies

Desirable

• Company Market Insurance domain
• ITIL
• DevOps Experience

Infrastructure Architect - City of London - Insurance

The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for the specification and management delivery of conceptual, logical and physical technology architectures (along with appropriate technology standards and strategies, time-lines, capital and labour estimates) for defined systems or sub-systems within small, medium or large projects.

The Infrastructure Architect needs to be strong in technology, but also needs to be comfortable with other domains with respect to the solution, and be able to direct and manage specialists (e.g. Product Vendors) in all these areas to produce a coherent solution for the specified system or sub-system.

The role is broad, and candidates must be capable of leveraging their core business experience to advise on a broad range of projects including infrastructure architecture, performance engineering, deployment design, security and systems management.

The role requires strategic thinking and planning. The Infrastructure Architect will be responsible for the enterprise Technical Directions Model i.e. the road-map for infrastructure technology adoption for the Business Planning period (typically the next 4-5 years). This is a fixed term role with the potential to make permanent.

Main Responsibilities

• Captures technical requirements and defines the infrastructure architectures and high-level solution designs and oversees the implementation of these solution designs
• Assures configuration and implementation of products aligns with the solution designs in support of cross functional business needs
• Oversees product configuration, implementation and support. To advise on best practice to achieve high levels of business satisfaction
• Co-ordinates infrastructure architectures and high-level designs, in conjunction with external partners, Operations, other teams, Project Management and business representatives
• Drives product evaluation and selection of new infrastructure products to meet strategic business initiatives. This may include project activities from proof-of-concepts, production deployment and handover to operations
• Establishes the overall system architecture documentation and implement standards and guidelines that guide the design and technology solutions in collaboration with the Head of Architecture, Application Architect(s), Enterprise Architect, Business Architect, Solution Architect and Information Security Officer.
• Attends Project team meetings and feedback on architecture and design progress, product updates and road maps
• Assists Sourcing Performance Management to ensure Vendors deliver on SLAs and track progress on open requests for information and enhancements
• Evaluates technologies to determine strengths and weaknesses in architecture, implementation and suitability. Makes recommendations consistent with the vision of the business
• Delivers technology functionality that meets technical, quality and financial standards

Relevant Experience

• At least 10 years in IT in various roles including infrastructure, architecture and design roles
• Strategic focus: aligns and integrates the strategic priorities with the direction and strategic priorities of the broader organisation
• STR
• Experience of current architectural trends e.g. SOA, Cloud, Digital, RPA
• Experience in dealing with multiple suppliers
• Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration and application layers

Essential

• Service Orientated Architecture
• Infrastructure Architecture and design
• Microsoft and Cloud Technologies

Desirable

• Company Market Insurance domain
• ITIL
• DevOps Experience

Are you a Senior C# Engineer looking to work on an application performing over 20 million transactions a minute, making use of Azure, .NET Core, and more?

Are you also passionate about code quality and looking to work with a business that shares this respect for best practices and clean code?

If you answered yes, this role is the role for you.

We are working with a global leader in the travel space looking to hire multiple Senior C# Engineers to build applications used by millions globally.

With many big projects ahead, this team's roadmap is filled to the brim with exciting projects for Senior C# Engineer's to sink their teeth into. These projects include building Greenfield applications used by millions, rewriting entire applications in .NET Core, and rewriting and a migration to Azure cloud and Azure DevOps for CI/CD.

The applications that they are building need to be able to deal with over 200 million transactions an hour at peak times. In order to meet these requirements, the business insists all of its Senior C# Engineers follow best practices by unit testing all code and adhering to SOLID principles at all times.

As a Senior C# Engineer, you will be integral to the success of these projects, taking ownership of several services. This will see you making all technical decisions required to ensure these services are robust, tested, and scalable.

They are all about an inclusive and open engineering culture, ensuring that your voice is heard. This has resulted in an environment where engineers feel comfortable to suggest new technologies and see them though to implementation.

To become a Senior C# Engineer in this team, you will need:

• Experience working on highly transactional and widely distrusted applications.
• Prior experience with C#, SQL, and Web API.
• A respect for clean code and following SOLID principles.
• Experience Unit testing your own code.
• Experience deploying code in a continuous integration/ deployment environment.
• A high-level understanding of what makes a well-architected application.

In return for your valuable expertise, you will get the opportunity to work for a world-renowned travel business utilising the latest tech to stay at the top of their game.

It's not only about the technology, you will also work in a great team environment where work-life balance is valued. Meaning flexible working and working from home is the norm… from day one!

If you're a Senior C# Engineer looking to work in an environment that respects code quality, uses the latest technologies and believes in a work-life balance for all employees. Apply now!

Talent Point is a Hiring Communications business, working as sole hiring partners with our customer. We've ripped up the rules and torn apart the Senior C# Engineer job spec to give you total clarity and visibility, painting a vivid picture (approved twice, both at Line and C-level) of the way this company lives, breathes and behaves, and how your role will look over years not months. We present only three applicants for every vacancy so, where we do represent you, you have a very high chance of securing a role with pre-booked interview times to plan around, in-depth vacancy details and no delays. Are you ready to seriously invest in your QA Lead progression? Let's design your future.

Talent Point is an equal opportunities employer and no terminology in this advert is designed to discriminate on grounds of gender, race, colour, religion, creed, disability, age, sex or sexual orientation or any other class protected by applicable law.

For information on how Talent Point manages and processes your personal information please see our privacy at talentpoint.co/privacy-policy/

Are you a Senior C# Engineer looking to work on an application performing over 20 million transactions a minute, making use of Azure, .NET Core, and more?

Are you also passionate about code quality and looking to work with a business that shares this respect for best practices and clean code?

If you answered yes, this role is the role for you.

We are working with a global leader in the travel space looking to hire multiple Senior C# Engineers to build applications used by millions globally.

With many big projects ahead, this team's roadmap is filled to the brim with exciting projects for Senior C# Engineer's to sink their teeth into. These projects include building Greenfield applications used by millions, rewriting entire applications in .NET Core, and rewriting and a migration to Azure cloud and Azure DevOps for CI/CD.

The applications that they are building need to be able to deal with over 200 million transactions an hour at peak times. In order to meet these requirements, the business insists all of its Senior C# Engineers follow best practices by unit testing all code and adhering to SOLID principles at all times.

As a Senior C# Engineer, you will be integral to the success of these projects, taking ownership of several services. This will see you making all technical decisions required to ensure these services are robust, tested, and scalable.

They are all about an inclusive and open engineering culture, ensuring that your voice is heard. This has resulted in an environment where engineers feel comfortable to suggest new technologies and see them though to implementation.

To become a Senior C# Engineer in this team, you will need:

• Experience working on highly transactional and widely distrusted applications.
• Prior experience with C#, SQL, and Web API.
• A respect for clean code and following SOLID principles.
• Experience Unit testing your own code.
• Experience deploying code in a continuous integration/ deployment environment.
• A high-level understanding of what makes a well-architected application.

In return for your valuable expertise, you will get the opportunity to work for a world-renowned travel business utilising the latest tech to stay at the top of their game.

It's not only about the technology, you will also work in a great team environment where work-life balance is valued. Meaning flexible working and working from home is the norm… from day one!

If you're a Senior C# Engineer looking to work in an environment that respects code quality, uses the latest technologies and believes in a work-life balance for all employees. Apply now!

Talent Point is a Hiring Communications business, working as sole hiring partners with our customer. We've ripped up the rules and torn apart the Senior C# Engineer job spec to give you total clarity and visibility, painting a vivid picture (approved twice, both at Line and C-level) of the way this company lives, breathes and behaves, and how your role will look over years not months. We present only three applicants for every vacancy so, where we do represent you, you have a very high chance of securing a role with pre-booked interview times to plan around, in-depth vacancy details and no delays. Are you ready to seriously invest in your QA Lead progression? Let's design your future.

Talent Point is an equal opportunities employer and no terminology in this advert is designed to discriminate on grounds of gender, race, colour, religion, creed, disability, age, sex or sexual orientation or any other class protected by applicable law.

For information on how Talent Point manages and processes your personal information please see our privacy at talentpoint.co/privacy-policy/

Senior PHP Developer

55-75k

Are you an innovative Senior PHP Developer in search of an opportunity to work for a rapidly growing, technology first Marketing and Advertising company, offering a niche product and working on the latest technology available?

• Work with a team of true Software Engineers, get involved with DevOps!
• Learn new technical languages, such as Python and Java
• Have your voice heard in technical and business direction

How will you help the business?

As a Senior PHP Developer, you will be a critical part of this company as it grows. You will be working on multiple platforms that affect networks across the country, adding features and scaling it up to meet the business objectives. Using your excellent knowledge of Symfony you will create secure, scalable code, take ownership and offer solutions along the way. You'll be able to work with an innovative tech stack, including PHP/Symfony, Python + Shell, Java + Kotlin, ElasticSearch + Redis, Microservices and TBD… by you!

Is this you?

You are a well-established Senior PHP Developer who can demonstrate a proven track-record of delivering projects to an excellent standard and to tight deadlines. You are excited by the prospect of working side by side with senior members of the business and under a CTO who will help you define your specialties. You can challenge ideologies when appropriate and are determined to produce the best.

What should you have?

• Highly Proficient Coding Skills with PHP
• Strong knowledge of Symfony 3+
• Knowledge of Databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
• Experience testing with PHPUnit
• Experience creating and consuming REST API's
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A willingness to learn and pick up new technologies!

It would be nice if you also had:

• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with TDD/BDD/DDD
• Experience with ElasticSearch, Redis and MongoDB

How do you get involved?

If you wish to get involved with this opportunity for a Senior PHP Developer, then press that button! If you would prefer to have a confidential chat to find out a bit more, then please call and ask for me (I'm Jon!) or send me an email at

Senior PHP Developer

55-75k

Are you an innovative Senior PHP Developer in search of an opportunity to work for a rapidly growing, technology first Marketing and Advertising company, offering a niche product and working on the latest technology available?

• Work with a team of true Software Engineers, get involved with DevOps!
• Learn new technical languages, such as Python and Java
• Have your voice heard in technical and business direction

How will you help the business?

As a Senior PHP Developer, you will be a critical part of this company as it grows. You will be working on multiple platforms that affect networks across the country, adding features and scaling it up to meet the business objectives. Using your excellent knowledge of Symfony you will create secure, scalable code, take ownership and offer solutions along the way. You'll be able to work with an innovative tech stack, including PHP/Symfony, Python + Shell, Java + Kotlin, ElasticSearch + Redis, Microservices and TBD… by you!

Is this you?

You are a well-established Senior PHP Developer who can demonstrate a proven track-record of delivering projects to an excellent standard and to tight deadlines. You are excited by the prospect of working side by side with senior members of the business and under a CTO who will help you define your specialties. You can challenge ideologies when appropriate and are determined to produce the best.

What should you have?

• Highly Proficient Coding Skills with PHP
• Strong knowledge of Symfony 3+
• Knowledge of Databases (both SQL and NoSQL)
• Experience testing with PHPUnit
• Experience creating and consuming REST API's
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A willingness to learn and pick up new technologies!

It would be nice if you also had:

• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience with TDD/BDD/DDD
• Experience with ElasticSearch, Redis and MongoDB

How do you get involved?

If you wish to get involved with this opportunity for a Senior PHP Developer, then press that button! If you would prefer to have a confidential chat to find out a bit more, then please call and ask for me (I'm Jon!) or send me an email at

Senior or Lead Developer - React, Javascript, AWS (Full Stack, Front End Focussed)

This friendly and collaborative B2B Marketing Consultancy (not a creative or advertising agency) is building a new greenfield platform to support their growing business is looking for a well rounded Senior Developer to join this 7 person Development team, in addition, you'll have dedicated QA, UX and DevOps to support you.

Working on this serverless AWS native platform you will focus on ReactJS, but also work on Typescript, a little PHP and an increasing amount of Python. A career path to leadership roles is available if you want but not compulsory and the company fully supports a continuous learning environment and from your first interaction with them will know they care for you, your development and wellbeing.

They operate a fairly flexible working policy, e.g you can work from home 2 days per week if you want to.

React is by far the primary tech, so if this is what you are looking for but you are flexible to get involved in other things occasionally when necessary then please do get in touch for more details.

Javascript

React, React.js, ReactJS

Typescript

AWS Serverless microservices Lambda

Python

PHP

Senior or Lead Developer - React, Javascript, AWS (Full Stack, Front End Focussed)

This friendly and collaborative B2B Marketing Consultancy (not a creative or advertising agency) is building a new greenfield platform to support their growing business is looking for a well rounded Senior Developer to join this 7 person Development team, in addition, you'll have dedicated QA, UX and DevOps to support you.

Working on this serverless AWS native platform you will focus on ReactJS, but also work on Typescript, a little PHP and an increasing amount of Python. A career path to leadership roles is available if you want but not compulsory and the company fully supports a continuous learning environment and from your first interaction with them will know they care for you, your development and wellbeing.

They operate a fairly flexible working policy, e.g you can work from home 2 days per week if you want to.

React is by far the primary tech, so if this is what you are looking for but you are flexible to get involved in other things occasionally when necessary then please do get in touch for more details.

Javascript

React, React.js, ReactJS

Typescript

AWS Serverless microservices Lambda

Python

PHP