Technology Strategist - Melbourne, Australia - Thoughtworks

Description

• 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.

Technical Skills

• 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

Professional Skills

• 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

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

Country: Australia City: Melbourne Date Posted: Industry: Information Technology Employment Type: Regular