Description
Solutions Architect - Digital, Publishing, Agile, CMS
One of the most recognised media publishing organisations in the world are seeking a highly proven Digital Solutions Architect from a publishing background. You'll be part of a high-calibre team responsible for all architectural design, development and deployment of secure, robust, performant, elegant and cost effective solutions to meet business requirements.
The Solutions Architect concentrates on the design of platforms and applications for all users. The Solutions Architects are also responsible for the critical evaluation and selection of the software and hardware components of the platform.
Extensive experience with Content Management and Digital Asset Management systems particularly within the publishing industry.
Experience with Opentext CMS, Picdar or NStein DAM systems
Experience with print productions systems - especially DTI suite of products including DTI Content Publisher, DTI Advertising and DTI Circulation
Experience with a variety of Finance and HR systems including Agresso, iTrent and Successfactors
Good understanding of systems integration approaches including: ESB, Middleware and Web services
Good understanding of Object Orientated development, including analysis, design and implementation
Previous experience working with content management systems, CRM and Data warehousing solutions
Good understanding of Web Technologies including SEO, SEM, Analytics.
Strong understanding/knowledge of working with large scale web platforms
Strong understanding of software development life cycles in particular scrum, Agile, XP and waterfall is desirable
Infrastructure knowledge covering Unix, Linux, Windows, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Data Centre topologies, virtualization technologies
Knowledge of application development technologies and frameworks such as MVC, .NET, Java, LAMP
Good understanding of industry best practices, techniques, tools and resources.
Extensive experience in creating software requirements specifications, interface specifications and data models
This a contract role looking to start ASAP with initial interviews looking to be conducted straight away.