Principal Platform Architect – Public Sector

🕒 September 10

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Kainos

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 1986-04

Healthcare • Marketing • Logistics

Kainos is a technology company focused on solving real problems for its customers and enhancing business operations through innovative IT solutions. With specialties in Enterprise Content Management, Application Management Services, Systems Integration, and Digital Transformation, Kainos serves clients across various sectors including healthcare, commercial, and the public domain. Their emphasis on building strong relationships and delivering impactful solutions is reflected in their two main business areas: Digital Services and Workday Practice, aimed at improving the lives of people and the functionality of organizations globally.

📋 Description

• Lead delivery of cloud platforms supporting large-scale transformation, including migration, modernisation, and new builds • Provide leadership within multidisciplinary agile teams • Establish shared understanding of solution outcomes, technical landscapes, and design complexity • Set technology direction for AI-augmented platform delivery and future AI-enabled delivery • Engage senior customer stakeholders on AI strategy, governance, and ROI • Shape the evolution of Kainos’s Platforms capability • Establish architectural principles and strategic platform direction with senior stakeholders • Define and address functional and non-functional platform needs • Drive technology direction and advancement within the Kainos Platforms Capability • Guide colleagues in their career development • Collaborate on development of blueprints and standards • Foster customer relationships and contribute to account strategies • Share subject-matter knowledge as a Kainos technology ambassador • Explore and responsibly apply AI to improve work and delivery outcomes • Balance innovation with pragmatism and remain accountable for results

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading delivery of platforms underpinning large-scale cloud transformation, including migration, modernisation, and web-based application deployment • Experience leading and making technology decisions and driving delivery to achieve positive customer outcomes • Experience building and fostering relationships with executive and C-level stakeholders • Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, spanning IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS • Demonstrated ability to manage, coach, and develop team and wider community members • Demonstrable experience applying AI to improve outcomes, evolve ways of working, and solve complex business or delivery challenges • Experience translating experimentation and learning into sustainable improvements and shaping adoption of effective practices • Ability to adapt approaches as technology capabilities evolve • Desirable: proactively developed business across an account with sales and account managers • Desirable: experience managing others, setting objectives, giving feedback, and leading performance reviews • Desirable: actively sharing thoughts and views on technology • Desirable: experience bringing challenging projects back on track • Desirable: previous accountability for creating and promoting new products or services • Desirable: participation in technology communities • Desirable: experience shaping organisational technology, delivery, or platform capabilities • Desirable: interest in emerging software delivery and platform engineering trends, such as agentic delivery patterns

🏖️ Benefits

• People-first culture • Career development and support • Diversity, equity and inclusion commitment • Recruitment accommodations and adjustments • Tailored recruitment process support