Here at Mercator we are on the lookout for a Technical Architect for a contract role within the public sector.

Essential Experience

Pega Agile Studio

REACT Development Environment

GitHub

GitLab

Browser Stack

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience leading and managing development and architecture teams
• Significant experience in a Digital Solution Architect/Lead Developer/Development Manager or similar role with leadership and management
• Practical experience of designing end-to-end application solutions within a digital environment, including multichannel, mobile and social media
• Demonstrable experience of agile practices and techniques
• Strong experience in designing and building digital and web solutions, preferably on large transactional projects
• A solid background in software development and solutions architecture within Open Source technologies and languages such as Scala, Java, RESTful APIs JSON, NoSQL, MongoDB, Play, Ruby Jenkins, Selenium, Jira, Confluence, Linux, HTML5, Cucumber, Django, Spring, Python, Chef and Puppet technologies.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases and experience of handling very large data sets.
• Strong business analysis skills with a proven track record of working with a diverse range of business stakeholders
• Strong software development and architecture background within open source technologies and languages
• Understand a wide range of integration methods and techniques
• Knowledge of a broad set of technologies across areas such as system platforms, web, databases, software development languages and tools
• Experience of developing and using web based APIs and Micro services
• Experience with open source solutions, using and deploying on cloud based platforms
• Understanding of web security best practice and security application design

This would be a contract role, remote with occasional travel required and outside IR35.