iTech Media is a high growth marketing and product development company which started with a simple mission: to help people make smart choices online. We build digital products that inform and entertain a global audience across the most competitive comparison markets in the world: iGaming, Sports Betting, Personal Finance, and we’re expanding into new verticals.
We bring to life a network of over 150 products across 50+ countries, serving 130,000,000 users annually. Founded in 2015, iTech remains bootstrapped, and is scaling up rapidly with a proudly people-first culture. We’ve got big ambitions for the future, continuing to help the world’s top brands to grow their brands, and we need talented people who share our ambition to join us for the next, most exciting part of our journey.
Why we need you:
We are looking to revamp our existing technology stack to create a streamlined next generation platform in order to turbo charge our continued growth plans. The aim is to provide a suite of tools and services that enable the creation of unique brands and experiences across our ever growing portfolio of products.
We’re looking for a Principal Architect to join our Engineering Chapter. You’ll be joining a team that have end to end responsibility for architecting, building and running our technical ecosystem, which consists of publishing and data platforms working with a number external feeds and internal analytics systems.
This role will be accountable for leading the architectural design of our next generation platform ensuring its best-in-class and able to support numerous verticals with a turnkey approach. It will require working in close collaboration with the application engineering teams ensuring a guild type approach with embedded engineering experts.
This role has a significant impact on the company wide portfolio as you will be a key contributor to defining the company wide engineering roadmap, which delivers best-in-class features and insights across everything we do.
What you'll be doing
- Own the creation of end to end architectural blueprints and technical designs.
- Lead as an evangelist across engineering to foster good design and practice.
- Lead the technology governance process, which should act as a guardrail but ensure innovation is still at the forefront of what we do.
- Create a collaborative culture to architecture and design throughout the engineering chapter.
- Work with the Global Head of Engineering to refine the technology Vision and Strategy.
- Work with stakeholders around the business to ensure support and buy-in to the technology strategy and Vision.
You'll have:
- Excellent design and presentation skills along with proven technical ability.
- Experience leading on large-scale software projects
- Track Record of defining technology requirements and leading design and build integrations.
- Knowledge of technology governance and selection best practices
- Knowledge of AWS Cloud design principles and infrastructure
Bonus points for:
- Ability to lead the selection of technology with vendors.
- Experience of working in digital marketing.
- Experience of designing and integrating content management systems (preferably Wordpress, Contentful or Directus) and solutions.
What we can do for you:
· Flexible working hours – “work your way”
· 25 days holiday, plus we close over end of year holiday period. You also get two days for your birthday and a life event, and two paid volunteering days a year.
· Private healthcare including dental, optical, physio, wellbeing and talking therapy
· Up to four months gender neutral paid parental leave
· Annual training budget of £1,000, and regular training days to support your growth and development
· Social events
· Eligibility for our discretionary bonus scheme
· Company-wide share option scheme
· Pension contribution matched up to 10%
· Life insurance cover of 4x salary
Diversity, equity and inclusion at iTech Media
iTech celebrates diversity in our teams, and we take inclusion seriously here. We’re creating an unrivalled opportunity for our teams to grow and belong, and as we scale, we know we need the most talented people with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and skills. If you’re good at what you do, come and join us. The more inclusive we are, the more epic experiences we can create for our communities.
