Technical Architect

This Technical Architect role includes a hands-on engineering component: be prepared to roll up your sleeves! You will be bringing the breadth and depth of your experience with web, cloud and data technologies to bear on many interesting challenges, helping us to complete our transition to an industry leading, fully cloud-native, always-available architecture.

You will ensure that the design of new cloud services and features is optimal in the context of our tech ecosystem, considering various functional and non-functional attributes, such as performance, availability, observability, security and cost. You will maintain a strategic vision, ensuring that a fast-paced development cycle converges on your chosen target architecture.

You will become The Gym Group's subject matter expert on architectural best practice in the Digital and Cloud Engineering spaces. You combine the ability to strongly advocate for the leading edge in tools and practices with a pragmatic approach to legacy systems. Knowledge of cloud platform design and software design for the cloud are more important for this role than lengthy experience as an Architect: we will be happy to consider applications from experienced developers or other engineers wishing to expand their career into architecture and systems design.

About You:

We're looking for someone who is clearly able to demonstrate:

Essential skills:

Collaboration

• Excellent communication



• A team player



• Advocate for best practice



• Produces clear documentation and Design Artifacts



• Comfortable presenting to technical and non-technical audiences


Technical Architecture


• UML or a similar framework (sequence, use case, activity diagrams)



• Cloud Architectural Patterns (like SOA, CQRS, BFF)



• Software design patterns and practices



• API-based interaction design



• Event-driven or message-driven Architectures



• Familiar with modern software engineering methodologies and the digital product lifecycle



• DevSecOps best practices and tools



• Regulatory and industry standards like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, OWASP, ISO 9000 range


Technology


• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure



• Kubernetes and containerisation patterns



• SQL Server, Redis, Cosmos DB or other Document DBs



• Service Bus and distributed messaging architectures



• APM tools and practices, including Azure Monitor



• Recent experience with programming and scripting languages (which might include C#, JavaScript/TS, bash, powershell or python)



• Node, React and node-based SSR tools like Next.js



• Modern web application development practices


Desirable skills


• Azure API Management



• Virtual Network architectures



• K8s security features (SecurityContext, network policies)



• Relational and no-SQL databases (e.g MS SQL, Redis, Cosmos DB)



• SIEM systems such as Sentinel



• Cloudflare



• A/B and MVT Testing



• API design, including RESTful and Graph APIs



• GitOps approach and DevOps workflow automation



• BDD, ATDD, TDD



• CRM, CMS and ERP Systems



• Data Analytics



• Familiar with architectural frameworks such as TOGAF or FEAF
  
  Here at The Gym Group we believe we are simply the best in our industry! Our amazing teams have skills, abilities and can-do attitudes that make this a great place to work!


We have strong, embedded values and an easy-going culture which ensures we put our people first. We pride ourselves on being fun, innovative, inclusive and engaging. We are now on the lookout for aTechnical Architect to join our amazing Product and Engineering Team.

So, what's stopping you? Apply today and know that We're With You every step of the way.

What you need to know about us...

The Gym Group is not like your average gym! To our members we're the lowest cost nationwide 24/7 Gym with over 230 gyms and counting! To our teams we are fun, welcoming, engaging and inclusive. We challenge our limits and push ourselves to impact positive change with our goals and initiatives. We take steps into new areas with a real and authentic purpose - It's our mission to break down barriers to fitness for all.

We're #1 in our industry when it comes to our values, our culture and our people - check out Glassdoor if you don't believe us. We offer a fantastic place to work in a great working culture and were recognised as #25 in the Top 50 places to work in the UK in 2022! We may be one of the leading budget gym chains in the UK but there's nothing budget about our investment into our people. We have retained GOLD in our investors in people award for the last 6 years and silver in wellbeing last year. We're recognised as a disability confident and inclusive employer which is something we are truly proud of. We have a brilliant team and opportunities for development and growth with support for success. Having recently undertaken some huge projects from a digital point of view and our plans are to keep being innovative, creative and agile in all that we do.

The Gym has a growing number of internal & external data sets generated from a range of different sources. Our analytical challenges include Customer Analytics, Member Acquisition & Retention and Profiling. More excitingly, a focus on advanced analytics creates the potential to generate significant increases in data breadth, volume & velocity in the future.

We are a growing organisation that delivers innovative data-driven products and services for our customers. We have the ambition to explore and acquire new internal & external data sources to deliver an exciting set of data & analytics solutions.

That's what you're looking for right? We're With You! So let us tell you more.