Technical Architect

IMServ is one of the UK’s leading data collection and energy metering experts, delivering award winning services to more customers in more places, meeting industry targets and becoming a benchmark for excellence. We offer a range of specialist metering technology for electricity, gas and water along with highly accurate energy data collection services. All this is wrapped up with an easy-to-view online data management analysis and reporting software.

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

• Our Technical Architect is a hands-on role. As well as leading and shaping the technical landscape for IMServ’s products, they also roll up their sleeves to write code.
  
  
• This role straddles our Scrum teams, providing consistency of approaches, choices, and implementation across our teams.
  
  
• It reviews the external market to identify trends that should be adopted, both in technology choices and in ways of working
  
  
• It ensures that our various products and modules will work together seamlessly, using integration, data connections, buses, and similar solutions and the documentation it generates, acts as a point of subject matter expertise for ensuring continued high performance and security of our technology solutions
  
  MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
  
  
• Technology Leadership. Investigate market trends and use to improve IMServ’s products. Take ownership to reduce risk and friction from older libraries, technologies and tooling
  
  
• Software development. Write code and associated unit tests and documentation, plus resolve bugs as needed. Update on progress as part of our scrum processes
  
  
• Community membership. Be an active member of the Product Engineering community, taking part in team events and similar activities. Coach other team members and ensures a continual improvement mindset in team.
  
  
• Software design. Define and lead adoption technical frameworks and designs for our software. Coach teams work within these
  
  
• Solution Architecture. Contributes to the architectural developments, including cloud components and security. Designs and implements within the agreed guidelines.
  
  PERSON SPECIFICATION:
  
  
• Depth of knowledge in most of our technologies (Azure, APIs, C#, MS SQL, WSO2)
  
  
• Has depth of C# as their primary language, and using Azure for cloud-native SaaS Solutions
  
  
• Strong appreciation for Object Orientation and designing good quality / well-designed code
  
  
• Has worked in an Agile SCRUM team and is familiar with the associated ceremonies and artefacts
  
  
• Strong understanding of loosely coupled architectural approaches to enable modular build and deploy, including API design and implementation
  
  
• Practical experience of Azure DevOps tooling
  
  COMPANY BENEFITS:
  
  
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
  
  
• Annual leave Buy & Sell scheme
  
  
• Enhanced Salary Sacrifice Pension Contributions
  
  
• Life Assurance up to 6 X Base Salary*
  
  
• Subsidised Health cover*
  
  
• Subsidised Dental Cover*
  
  
• Contribution towards Eye Tests and Glasses
  
  
• In Office & Out of Office Social Events
  
  
• Retailer Discounts Platform
  
  
• Employee Assistance Program
  
  
• Wellbeing Centre
  
  
• Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme*
  
  
• Reward & Recognition
  
  (*Length of service & T&Cs apply)
  
  Our people are our main asset. We strive to ensure they remain happy, competitive, and fulfilled - helping to propel our business forward and ensure we remain customer-centric and competitive. We are proud to remain the UK’s leading and growing energy data collection and meter operations service provider.
  
  Diversity and inclusion have long been at the heart of of IMServ’s success. As we continue our growth, our focus remains on ensuring that equality, diversity and inclusion remain central to our business and recruitment practices. We recognise that we operate in an industry in which there has traditionally been a lack of diversity and we are keen to encourage applications from as inclusive a group as possible. We recognise that a balanced workforce encourages collaboration and innovation, promotes entrepreneurship and a feeling of ownership.
  
  These are the key drivers of our business, that our customers really look to us for.
  
  (Please note that we reserve the right to close this position before the expiry date)