Bbc Graduate Scheme – Senior Architect In Derby

Overview

Position Title: Senior Architect

Company: BBC

Location: Derby, UK

Job Description

The aim of this architect role is to support our engineering teams in creating a world class audience experience for our BBC iPlayer and Sounds products. This role bridges the work our engineering teams are undertaking locally with the wider BBC and external companies to ensure scalable and maintainable solutions are delivered aligned to our overall technical strategy.

Requirements:

• To act as technical authority for major projects assessing technical proposals to ensure they meet business needs.
• To assist the engineering teams with the definition of project scope and technical approach during project inception and to assist in the definition of implementation
• To be responsible for communicating and documenting the technical architecture of our systems.
• To build effective relationships and work with engineering teams, product owners and any 3rd party suppliers to ensure the predictable and reliable delivery of our goals aligned with the department’s technical principles and strategy.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience designing, developing and deploying scalable architectures and infrastructure for high traffic applications.
• Demonstrable experience of working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams with a focus on delivery.
• Experience of collaborating across organisational boundaries to align work to agreed strategic direction