Join Mintel as a Principal Architect

Mintel is on the lookout for a Principal Architect with extensive experience in guiding architectural practices and providing top-tier technical leadership. This role entails working alongside teams that build web applications, maintain complex operational tools, manage significant data assets, and leverage AI and ML capabilities. The successful candidate will own our architectural processes, collaborating with Architects, Engineers, Product Managers, and other functions to deliver robust, scalable solutions for our customers and internal teams. They will also support the gradual evolution of existing capabilities.

About the Role

This hands-on, individual contributor role requires a solid technical background and practical experience working closely with Engineering teams. It also calls for leadership qualities and interpersonal skills necessary to thrive in a senior, influential position.

About Mintel

Why join Mintel? As the world's leading market intelligence agency, technology underpins our success. We help our clients understand consumers and consumer markets, aiming to provide the market intelligence behind every great business decision. Our technology allows us to deliver data, insights, and opinions compellingly to our clients across the globe.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with Architects supporting various aspects of our portfolio to ensure a cohesive approach across all of Mintel's technology platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and guide the adoption of best practice cloud architecture and design patterns.
• Define the technology vision, strategy, and long-term architectural roadmap to meet Mintel's future needs.
• Maintain current and future state architecture plans, in partnership with other Architects, Engineering teams, and Product partners.
• Help Engineering teams and Product partners integrate the technology strategy into the product portfolio roadmap, modernizing established capabilities and enabling new, innovative solutions.
• Own architectural best practices and contribute to broader architectural and technical discussions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and incorporate them into the technology vision and architectural roadmap.
• Support specific initiatives as an Architect and in a technical lead capacity, ensuring robust design and appropriate considerations for successful implementation.

What We Are Looking For

• A software engineering background with experience as an Architect building systems using technologies similar to AWS (including Sagemaker, EventBridge, Lambda, and SQS), Snowflake, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Django, React, Airflow, Elasticsearch, SnapLogic, and ChatGPT.
• Experience establishing and evolving architectural practices in organizations with a complex portfolio of data-driven SaaS services.
• In-depth knowledge of modern cloud-based technology architectures and designs, with experience applying them in collaboration with Engineering teams.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, able to communicate with and influence colleagues across all levels of the company in a constructive and collaborative manner.
• Able to understand and talk strategically about business priorities, aligning technology and architecture strategy to support these.
• Exposure to agile ways of working and an understanding of how to embed good architectural practices in such an environment.

Why You'll Love Working at Mintel

• A culture that supports true collaboration while embracing remote working.
• Generous holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• An approach to personal development where every individual has two weeks of personal development time per year to learn and share their knowledge with others.
• Frequent social events, both within the department and across the company.
• A working model blending home and office working.

Mintel is committed to building and supporting a diverse workforce, providing opportunities for all. We boast 26% of our Engineering team and 27% of our Engineering leaders are women. Proud to be a signatory of the Tech Talent Charter, we aim to improve diversity within our team and support industry-wide improvement. We offer flexible working options and provide support, development, and growth opportunities.

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