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Technical Architect - South East London
£110,000 - 121,000
Stackstudio Digital Ltd.
Trafalgar Square, South East London
£110,000 - 121,000
Requirements
Must:
- 10 years of experience in enterprise architecture or principal technical roles
- Strong background in distributed systems and data platforms
- Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Kafka, and time-series data platforms
- Deep understanding of stream processing and data ingestion patterns
- Experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures
- Proven ability to operate at principal architect level
- Comfortable influencing CIOs and senior architects
- Strong written and visual documentation skills
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and technical governance of an enterprise observability and telemetry platform
- Define end-to-end architecture blueprints, including OTEL collectors, OPAM agents, and Kafka-based data ingestion pipelines
- Create reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails
- Design and review major solution components for scalability, resilience, and performance
- Lead tool selection and POC execution, validating architectural choices
- Guide teams from conceptual design to production-ready architecture
- Act as the open-source architecture authority, ensuring correct adoption and customization
- Evaluate and recommend open-source technologies aligned to enterprise requirements
- Ensure architectural alignment with security, compliance, and operational standards
- Participate in CIO discussions focused on platform components and architecture decisions
- Clearly explain technical trade-offs, risks, and long-term impacts
- Influence strategic decisions through strong architectural rationale
- Provide architectural guidance during POC and build phases for developers
- Review designs and implementations to ensure adherence to architecture standards
- Support Business Analysts by clarifying technical flows for documentation
Description
We are seeking a Technical Architect Principal to join our London team for a 6-month contract at 3 days a week. In this role, you will lead the architecture and design of our enterprise observability and telemetry platform, focusing on cutting-edge open-source and distributed systems technologies. You will work closely with senior technical stakeholders, including CIOs, to address strategic architectural decisions while guiding development teams to successful implementations. Our team values collaboration and innovation, and we are excited to find someone with extensive experience in enterprise architecture to help us achieve our goals.
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