Senior Architect Account And Identity

TL;DR

Senior Architect Account and Identity: Expanding the hirify.global’s ability to integrate new capabilities into online platforms with an accent on standardizing experiences across web, mobile, TV, and Smart Speaker platforms. Focus on governance and security of existing and new services within an AWS environment.

Location: London, Glasgow, Salford, Newcastle, Cardiff

Salary: £64,000 - £96,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience

Company

The hirify.global is committed to inform, educate and entertain through some of the world’s best loved content.

What you will do

• Contribute towards the wider Account & Identity Architecture Strategy and drive the development and adoption of the Architecture Statements within User Engagement.
• Develop a target architecture to address gaps and challenges in the domain, along with detailed designs for individual solutions.
• Communicate technical requirements and vision to external partners to ensure continued innovation and improvement of services.
• Be accountable for architectural decisions, embedding oversight into cross-functional teams and documenting choices.
• Provide architectural support across the hirify.global ecosystem, ensuring technical coherence, managing dependencies, and minimising complexity.
• Champion patterns, best practices, and evolutionary design approaches to deliver secure, robust, and repeatable solutions.

Requirements

• Proven architecture experience designing high-volume, near-real time platforms with strong focus on resilience, reliability, and security.
• Expertise in AWS (particularly EC2, Lambda), relational and non-relational databases, and the full end-to-end data lifecycle from exploration to production.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as Java, JavaScript and Python.
• An understanding of information security issues and how to effectively mitigate these.
• Experience of building scalable software solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence, translate technical detail, and shape a compelling strategic vision.

Nice to have

• Experience of supporting use cases such as personalisation, machine learning, advanced analytics, interactivity and gamification.
• Experience in agile software delivery at scale, with a perspective on what good looks like in data engineering.
• Awareness of Behavioural and Ethical Design when architecting participatory experiences for audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.