Technical Architect

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Hillington, Glasgow

Location

Glasgow (hybrid working)

Benefits

Flexible working, pension, bonus, profit share, healthcare cash plan, holiday buy scheme, length of service awards, employee assistance programme, great culture and much more!

About the Role

Technology underpins everything we do at Amici Procurement, enabling our amazing team of purchasing and supply chain specialists to support some of the most exciting and important work in the Biotech industry.

We are embarking on a new phase of development to create the next generation of our MyAmici product as part of a multi-year plan of growth for the business, and are looking for a Technical Architect to join the Innovation Team to support this.

This is a hands-on role, mixing both strategy and development. You will have the opportunity to work with modern technology stack using the best of Microsoft Azure, and be part of growing the team to meet our ambitious plans.

We would love to hear from you – if you have inquisitive passion, creativity and confident leadership, ambitious to achieve outstanding results!

What will you be doing?

Customer Centric Design

  • Develop and then maintain domain knowledge based on customer use-cases, industry good practice, and relevant regulations
  • Develop and evaluate architecture and design options that support the delivery of business goals and roadmap priorities

Engineering and Delivery

  • Act as a senior role model for the Engineering team on good practice and supporting team development
  • Deliver high-quality code using Agile and Test Driven Development methodologies and practices
  • Turn functional and non-functional requirements into well-structured software that meets the needs of the business
  • Participation in requirements review sessions (“Three Amigos”) with Business Analysts and QA Engineers
  • Develop complex database queries, views, triggers and functions
  • Conduct code reviews and participate in pair programming sessions, acting as a mentor to develop good practice
  • Ability to assess the impact of changes on our systems and infrastructure
  • Document your code both technically and to support operational maintenance
  • Proactively drive architectural and process improvement opportunities as part of continual improvement activities
  • Carry out product and solution sourcing, assessment and selection where third-party products or services will benefit the Amici Procurement business

Operational Support

  • Support the smooth transition of software into production
  • Provide third-level support for production software during business hours

What are we looking for?

  • Over eight (8) years professional development experience – ideally in C# or Java
  • Over five (5) years of architecture experience in a software-powered business or consulting setting
  • Professional experience with a modern JavaScript web framework (VueJS, React, Angular, Blazor WebAssembly, etc)
  • Experience working in an Agile development environment using modern DevOps practices
  • Computer Science degree, Software Engineering degree, or evidence of equivalent industry experience
  • Experience with writing automated tests (e.g. NUnit, Jest, etc)
  • Experience working with databases, both relational (e.g SQLServer, Postgres, MySQL, etc ) and non-relational (e.g. MongoDB, CosmoDB, etc)
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Capable of developing strong, long term relationships with business and technology stakeholders
  • Well-developed influencing and decision making skills, showing clear leadership when it comes to driving out the definition of a problem and its solution

Our Culture and Values?

We offer a fun, dynamic entrepreneurial environment where people are supported to do their best work. We never stop investing in our culture as we appreciate empowering, motivating and developing our people offers a challenging, and rewarding experience

Proud Professionals – We seek first to understand and deliver expertise with pride
Collaborative and Inclusive – We form positive relationships based on trust. We value critical contributions
WOW Impact – We embrace full ownership and accountability to ensure success
Positive, Passionate and Fun – We are hardworking, enthusiastic, resilient and self-motivated
Innovative and Action Orientated – We are passionate about driving personal and organisational improvement

About Amici

Since its pioneering inception in 2005, Amici Procurement Solutions has grown quickly to become the market leader of procurement and materials management solutions for biotech businesses in the UK and US. We combine SAAS based software with a fully supported service.

We support scientists every day in their endeavours to discover life changing cures. Our consultancy services along with in-house cloud-based software helps improve process efficiency, including ordering raw materials, inventory, and quality management. We take extreme pride in delivering solutions of the highest standard and are honoured that we can help our customers on their way to success. Our customers are loyal and enthusiastic about us and so are our people.

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