Infrastructure Architecture – Lead Architect

Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world?

At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 10 million students worldwide. We work with over
28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric solutions that improve education outcomes.

What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification; we partner with schools, examination boards and central governments and other professional institutions to enrich the lives of learners.

RM Group operates through three businesses:
Technology (Managed Services, Software and Infrastructure for Schools), Assessment (Software and Services) and TTS (Educational Resources).

Within the assessment market we are experts in providing solutions for online exam testing and marking and the management and analysis of educational data. We work with government ministries, exam boards and professional awarding bodies for high stakes assessment such as GCSEs, A Levels, and professional qualifications. Each year, our software is used globally to conduct hundreds of thousands of on-screen tests and to mark millions of paper-based scripts.

For over a decade we have been partnering with the world’s leading awarding bodies to deliver intuitive, secure, and reliable e-marking solutions.

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As lead architect, you will manage the Infrastructure Architecture team, providing guidance, mentorship and day to day management of the team’s workload and priorities.

You will be responsible for the quality of our infrastructure design. Ensuring the highest standards, consistent patterns, and a best of breed approach to infrastructure design will be second nature to you. You will be a key collaborator with our Product Architects, challenging their decisions and working closely to optimize technical designs. Your insights and expertise will be instrumental in translating conceptual designs into tangible technical deliverables that deliver infrastructure designs to meet business requirements with high availability and controlled costs.

• Line management and mentorship of the Infrastructure Architecture team.
• Deliver reference architectures and reusable patterns for Azure infrastructure.
• Design secure, performant and supportable architectures for delivery by RM’s Infrastructure Engineering team.
• Ensure designs include observability, resilience, and security by design
• Ensure designs are scalable, available, control costs, and provide cost reporting capabilities.
• Work with technical architects, development leads and project teams to ensure changes to infrastructure and processes align with best practice and with a customer-led focus.

• Prior experience in a technical leadership role or similar capacity.
• Deep knowledge of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
• Solid understanding of Security, IAM, Networking, and Database concepts.
• Experience in designing, understanding, and troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
• Experience producing HLDs/LLDs, architecture diagrams, and other documentation. Familiarity with standard project lifecycle processes.
• Time management skills: ability to understand business impact and prioritise tasks accordingly.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, a highly personable, engaging approach and a strong alignment to RM's core values:
  Customer success, high standards, respect for others, innovation, openness and enjoyment at work.
• Good working knowledge of the following products:
  Gitlab CI/CD, Azure Dev Ops, Docker, Terraform, Bash, Packer, Ansible.

At RM we have My Work Blend @RM which provides office-based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working options. As well as your office base, you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process.

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