Technology Strategist
ThoughtWorks
- Sydney, NSW
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support to increase our pipeline:
- Being part of a pursuit team to create impactful solutions to our clients.
- Be responsible for engaging with technical and business stakeholders to understand clients' needs, prioritize the delivery approach, and guide technical leads in solution delivery.
- Evangelize business benefits and impact of the platform as well as the value of modern delivery and engineering practices.
- Support client architects and portfolio managers in developing technology roadmaps, including effectively evaluating build/rent/buy decisions.
- Delivery Advisory
- Assess the ongoing success of the modernisation efforts and report the progress to the client services team.
- Guide delivery programs with one or more business applications to ensure quality technical delivery, especially around modernisation, cloud migration to cloud native.
- Strategize with the client and Thoughtworks subject matter experts on creating and combining elements of a platform, and ensure delivery against it.
- Good understanding of the following areas (must have extensive experience working with but may not require current hands-on):
- Experience in legacy modernisation and the patterns to support an incremental modernisation approach
- Modern platform design and evolution
- Key platform architecture patterns e.g. microservices, event driven, event sourcing architectures, etc
- Public cloud service offerings (IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS services as well high level product offerings)
- Infrastructure as Code
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices
- Modern security practices
- Develop and evolve technology strategy, aligned to and prioritized by business objectives
- Influence / coach enterprise architects on modern evolutionary platform architecture principles and practices
- Develop and communicate measurements of platform progress and business impact
- Support organizational changes in regards to capability development, restructuring toward product-centric team models, and transitioning to modern agile SDLC practices
- Communicate technical decisions to non-technical audiences and build consensus around them
- Articulate the value of foundational technology approaches to business executives (e.g. the pros & cons of microservices architectures in a given context)
- Own key relationships both up and downstream of the platform teams to ensure delivery.
- Manage priorities and make decisions in high stakes scenarios
City: Sydney
Date Posted: 04-09-2024
Industry: Information Technology
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