London | Progress OpenEdge & Java | PCON
Job Summary
Location: Crawley London
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect to define and drive the long-term technical vision architecture and strategy for a business-critical on-premise back-office platform. This role will provide strategic technical leadership across multiple engineering teams with a strong focus on Progress OpenEdge Java-based applications platform standardization operational excellence security and long-term sustainability.
The successful candidate will act as the technical authority for the platform partnering with Engineering Enterprise Architecture Information Security Infrastructure and business stakeholders to deliver multi-year platform initiatives and ensure the continued evolution stability and scalability of the environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the long-term architecture roadmap and technology strategy for the platform.
- Provide technical leadership and governance across multiple engineering teams and applications.
- Drive engineering excellence through standardization reusable components best practices and operational improvements.
- Lead the design and evolution of secure scalable resilient and maintainable platform solutions.
- Act as the primary technical liaison between engineering teams and key stakeholders including Architecture and Information Security.
- Drive platform modernization stability performance and operational maturity initiatives.
- Guide complex technical decision-making and mentor senior engineers technical leads and architects.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10 years of experience in software engineering solution architecture platform architecture or technical leadership roles.
- Strong expertise in Progress OpenEdge (ABL/OpenEdge platform) architecture and development.
- Extensive experience with Java and enterprise application development including technologies such as Spring Boot REST APIs Microservices and Hibernate/JPA.
- Proven experience designing and supporting large-scale business-critical on-premise platforms.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles distributed systems software design patterns and system integration.
- Experience defining and executing large-scale multi-year technology strategies and roadmaps.
- Demonstrated success leading architecture and engineering initiatives across multiple teams and business domains.
- Strong knowledge of security architecture governance risk management and compliance requirements.
- Experience driving platform standardization operational excellence and continuous improvement programs.
- Excellent stakeholder management communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience working within enterprise-scale or highly regulated environments is highly desirable.
Personal
Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates we place great importance in addition to various forms personality profile. These include:
High analytical skills
A high degree of initiative and flexibility
High customer orientation
High quality awareness
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
About Infosys
Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 59 countries to navigate their digital transformation.
With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises we expertly steer clients in 59 countries as they navigate their digital transformation powered by cloud and AI. We enable them with an AI-first core empower the business with agile digital at scale and drive continuous improvement with always-on learning through the transfer of digital skills expertise and ideas from our innovation ecosystem. We are deeply committed to being a well-governed environmentally sustainable organization where diverse talent thrives in an inclusive workplace.
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