Romania

Summary :
We exist to simplify the lives of Britain’s businesses. Using our applications, critical operational tasks are done right first time, allowing organisations to look forward and thrive with confidence. We are the largest privately held software company in the UK and the third largest in Europe. Always looking to the future, we are now embarking on a major project to build out new cloud-based applications and services, leveraging the latest technologies and tools.
You will be working in the Staffology Payroll teams, playing a critical role in building IRIS’ next generation of cloud-based, customer-focused payroll software. You will be helping to set the code standards and patterns that will be used across our new application suite, working with embedded UX, QA and Dev Ops experts to build re-usable services and components.
This is an exciting opportunity to steer the architectural vision in collaboration with the Staffology Payroll agile engineering teams. The Architect must have a passion for the latest cloud technology and be excited to steer the technical design of solutions, ensuring that they align with the company architectural cloud vision, principles, and standards.
The architect will collaborate with the agile teams acting as the architectural enabler for effective cloud infrastructure and applications, they will ensure that a modern cloud-based architecture is implemented and coach the teams on best practices for effective cloud-based applications.
The architect will mentor other engineers/architects and be pro-active with a strong architectural voice in the team and ensure that products that are secure, performant and scalable
Responsibilities :
Design and Implementation

• Ensure solution designs align with company cloud architectural vision
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering to evolve the architectural backlog
• Work with Development Managers to build roadmaps on how to deliver cloud solutions in an agile manner
• Work with Product Owners to ensure that technical improvements are prioritised appropriately
• Gather architecturally significant requirements for major projects
• Design and document architectural solutions
• Implement and govern an architecture framework
• Code proof of concepts and core application areas

Quality

• Ensure cloud architecture is designed to be maintainable and easily extendable to meet future requirements
• Ensure Security policy is always adhered to
• Be involved in maintaining the KPIs/metrics around technical standards for the development teams
• Steer the development teams to ensure their implementation is technically sound and aligned with the cloud architecture framework

Planning, Organizing & Delivery

• Ensure cross team dependencies are understood and managed
• Ensure architectural blockers are removed from teams
• Ensure technical roadmaps are always current and up to date

Initiative, Innovation & Change

• Maintain an ongoing awareness of emerging trends in cloud and related technology arenas that could influence new projects
• Continuously look for ways to improve effectiveness and productivity and provide innovative solutions to difficult problems

Knowledge sharing of technology/trends to teams

As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.