Chief Architect

Euromonitor is currently hiring for a highly regarded role in our global technology team: The Chief Architect.

As our Chief Architect: You are a highly visible and influential presence within the technology organisation. The Chief Architect is the architectural conscience of the CTO, to whom you report, a member of the technology leadership team and chair of the architecture steering committee. Key responsibilities for the Chief Architect range from leading and mentoring a globally distributed architecture team, developing and promoting a scalable architectural vision and strategy, and conducting high-level risk assessment and impact analyses, to safeguard our architecture governance and compliance, including non-functional requirements.

**What we can offer you**:

- The opportunity to be the driving force in a significant technology transformation for a global company
- Hybrid working and truly flexible working hours
- Stability in a role that will grow and allow you to create a legacy

We are looking for a dynamic individual who can drive innovation and knows what it takes to guide a technology function by translating the product strategy into solution concepts, models and designs as well as educating technology and senior business leaders with the art of the possible. The Chief Architect will look to not only inspire the architecture team and engineering leads, but also commit them to the necessary changes that will enable the technology transformation to be successful.

**Requirements**:
**Responsibilities (not limited to)**
- Help define and implement the overall technology vision and strategy and own the long-term architectural roadmap to meet Euromonitor’s future needs
- Maintain current and future state architecture plans
- Deliver prototypes as required to demonstrate the value of new technology and facilitate the handover and subsequent adoption of new technologies to engineering
- Coordinate with the product management team to gain awareness of the product roadmaps and ensure the architecture team are considering architecture ahead of time
- Evaluate emerging technologies and incorporate these into the technology vision
- Support the development, maintenance, communication and execution of a robust Architecture management and governance framework
- Evaluate the cost of ownership of products, ensuring the right architecture is being considered whether built, licensed or bought.
- Assess the impact of solution change on the current and future architecture and the overall fit of solutions being recommended
- Identify and implement opportunities for innovation and improvement in architectural and technology best practice
- Collaborate with colleagues globally across technology to ensure alignment between Architecture and the IT Controls framework, Information Security and Compliance

**Skills/Proficiencies required**:

- Worked in a transformational environment in an information led business, partnering leading Architecture
- Extensive experience in software development
- Roughly 10 years of software architecture experience, 5 years in a leading position
- Strong communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with both technical and non-technical people
- Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- In-depth knowledge of cloud architecture principles, patterns and practices
- Adapt at development methods, methodologies and processes as well as software operations
- Experience of delivering MS Azure technologies and platforms would be a bonus
- Understanding of Machine Learning in a publishing context e.g. metdata enrichment, automated tagging, personalisation
- Practical experience in Containers and Container orchestration.
- Solid understanding of DevOps tooling and CI/CD
- Experience with publishing workflows and data pipeline

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**Benefits**

**Our values**
- **We act with integrity**:

- **We are curious about the world**:

- **We are stronger together**:

- **We seek to empower**:

- **We find strength in diversity**

**International**: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office but we are all dealing with our 16 offices worldwide on a daily basis.

**Hardworking but sociable**: our staff know how to work hard but also how to enjoy themselves We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours and regular socialising including frequent after work meet ups, summer and Christmas parties and a whole range of sports and other groups to be involved with.

**Committed to making a difference**: We think that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charit