Senior Enterprise Architect, Francis Crick
Biomedical research institute
Job no longer available
Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- Educated to degree level, ideally in Computer Science or related STEM subject
- Demonstrable experience in hands-on software development and technical roles, both as an engineer, and in the management of technical teams in a cutting edge technology environment
- Fluency in two or more of the following languages and frameworks; Java, Javascript, Spring, React.js, Angular.js, .Net, Python, SQL, NoSQL
- Experienced in implementing and working with CI/CD pipelines and working practices
- Experienced in working with recognised software/enterprise architectural frameworks, eg TOGAF or similar
- Experienced in working with one or more of the following Cloud ecosystems: AWS, Azure, Google
- Experienced contributing to IT architectural policies, including infrastructure, integration, vendor and especially Information Security
- Experienced in building strong stakeholder relationships – both technical and business
- Experienced in commercial negotiations – from a technical perspective with stakeholders in Finance and Legal functions
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Desirable Qualifications, experience and competencies:
- TOGAF certification
- AWS certified architect
- Experience in secure networking and unified communications
- Experience in Cyber Security
- Experience with Cloud Foundry
- Experience with containerisation technologies, especially Kubernetes
- Background in hi-tech or scientific industries a plus, eg Telecoms, Pharma, Software
- Industry knowledge spanning across multiple industries including scientific industries, banking, telecoms, manufacturing & engineering.
- Experience in working in digital transformation programmes defining technology strategies and roadmaps, creating blueprints and capability management artefacts.
What the job involves
- Create High Level Designs for new enterprise software services
- Support the Development team to develop, test and operate new enterprise software services
- Ownership of the technical architecture and architecture governance, design documentation and roadmap for those services, in conjunction with the Chief IT Architect & CISO
- Selection of technology frameworks needed to deliver those services, in conjunction with the Chief IT Architect
- Day to day technical management of key vendor relationships
- Continual optimisation of software services, and elimination of technical debt
- Proposals for introduction of new services, or transformation of existing ones, to meet the strategic objectives of the Crick
- Produce Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture deliverables – comprising of transforming complex business problems into effective strategy papers, architecture blueprints, business capability artefacts and e2e high level solutions
- Conducting RFI/RFQs for new tools/applications
- Acting as thought leader and technical domain expert
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Francis Crick Institute was founded in 2015 through the merger of the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research and CRUK's London Research Institute. Its mission is to push the boundaries of our understanding of how life works, and it is the largest single-site biomedical research institute in Europe.
One of the Institute's strengths is its ability to collaborate extensively with external research groups, boasting partnerships in more than 90 countries. These collaborations, however, pose data protection challenges due to the need to transfer vast amounts of sensitive information across borders. The Institute has addressed this by developing its own Trusted Research Environment toolkit, which allows remote teams to share data securely and compliantly in the cloud.
The institute secured £1 billion in funding back in 2022 and is maximising its effectiveness through the BRIDGE network and investments in AI and machine learning. A notable example is Google’s subsidiary DeepMind establishing a research lab within the institute to enhance biology and genomics research.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$1.3bn
GRANT
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- 28 days of holiday each year, plus three additional days (usually taken over Christmas) and bank holidays
- Defined contribution pension scheme, with the Crick contributing between 3% - 16% of salary
- Life assurance
- Season ticket/car parking loan
- Annual leave purchase
- Childcare support allowance
- Back-up dependent care
- Discounted annual gym membership
- Bike to Work scheme
- Payroll giving
- Shopping discounts
Company HQ
Somers Town, London, UK
Leadership
Paul Nurse
(CEO)The first Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Was previously President of Rockefeller University in New York. In 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine as part of a team that discovered the role of protein molecules that control the duplication of cells.
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