Director of Engineering

Job Title: Director of Engineering

Job Location: Hybrid (Office + Home), London, United Kingdom

Salary: 100000-130000£/year

Company Description

Our client is a platform and solutions company that simplifies business processes, improves customer experiences, and creates exceptional business value for forward-thinking enterprises. We utilize human and applied intelligence, cognitive solutions, conversational platforms, and SaaS solutions to accelerate growth, innovation, efficiency, and resilience.

Role Description: Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.

Technical Experience:

• Good experience in Power Platform Canvas App Configuration, Canvas App Functions, OOB Connectors, Power Portals, Power Automate, Power Automate Desktop, Power BI Reporting
• Good Experience on using Standard Connectors and Premium Connectors
• Design cloud and hybrid systems that use Microsoft Azure including computing, network, storage, monitoring, and security.
• Good knowledge on governance, data platforms, disaster recovery, virtualization, identity management, and IT operations.
• Experience on hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
• Work with IT function understand customer requirements across the IT services and recommend technical solution to meet the business needs
• Develops technical roadmaps for future Azure cloud implementations.
• Create and review architecture and solution design artifacts
• Execute the hands-on implementation of proposed solutions and providing technical guidance to teams during the solutions development and deployment phases.
• Estimation and outlining of the solutions needed to implement cloud migration as well as continued operations.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate the assumptions, issues, and risks that occur throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide technical direction and lead a group of one or more architects addressing a common goal.
• Design and implement Office 365 and Azure AD Premium's advanced features, such as security, governance, and compliance

• Strong knowledge of the Microsoft Azure Platform's features and functionalities is required. These include security, firewalls, Redis cache, key vault, etc.
• Designing and implementing ADFS identity solutions for applications other than Microsoft Office 365
• Creating Microsoft Azure solutions following project requirements and predefined criteria
• Driving cloud security, privacy, and compliance decisions through design and technical discussion concerns for size, performance, agility, and HA/DR
• Configure and manage customer Azure cloud environment for clients
• Ability to analyze systems and identify problems migrating to Azure cloud
• Implement CI/CD-based application development methodologies using tools like Devops, PowerShell, Jenkins etc.
• Work with clients to ensure smooth and successful implementation, delivery, and deployment of complex solutions

Qualifications

• Engineering Management and Team Leadership skills
• Expertise in Software Development and Project Management
• Experience with integration technologies and strategies
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple teams and projects effectively
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or related field
• Experience working in the technology industry
• Experience with Agile methodology is a plus