Modern Application Lead

Hitachi Solutions understand what it takes to digitally transform organisations, harnessing the power of the latest technologies and seamlessly integrating them into businesses. As a global consultancy firm working across the private and public sectors, we specialise in user-friendly business applications based on the Microsoft cloud.

With a team of experienced industry professionals, consultants and technology experts, Hitachi Solutions has a wide range of capabilities including digital transformation, ERP and CRM implementation, change management and data science & analytics. Our highly skilled team help drive improvements to many aspects of your business creating efficiencies and growth. For more information, visit https://www.hitachi-solutions.co.uk/ .

At Hitachi Solutions Europe we are the leading European Microsoft Gold Partner for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform and Analytics areas.  As part of our existing projects & teams, we have extensive knowledge and experience in Azure DevOps. We are now looking to complement this success by investing to grow this area by offering independent Azure offerings.

As a Modern Application Lead, you will be part of the Azure Cloud Solutions capability and will help in setting up a team focusing on Modern Applications build upon Azure cloud native foundations. You will contribute to setting the strategic direction for the team whilst bringing valuable industry

Key Responsibilities

• Establish new market propositions for Azure Modern Application space.
• Use existing industry experience and connections to develop the Hitachi-Solutions brand within the Modern Application space.
• Lead transformation projects by architecting application designs based on cloud-native and enterprise-level integration foundations.
• Be a role model by being hands-on and a trusted leader for the rest of the team.
• Establish good methodology & development practices & principles.

Experience

• 10+ years of overall development experience; 5+ years of which focused on cloud-native applications.
• Have Microsoft and industry connections.
• Extensive experience in defining, documenting, and delivering cloud-native application designs.
• Experience in presenting and selling Azure architecture to internal or external stakeholders or customers.
• Extensive experience in managing delivery projects & leadership.
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery environment.
• Project planning experience.
• Relevant Azure certifications

Essential Skills:

• Principles:
  • Application Security
  • Agile / Scrum
  • TDD (Test-driven development)
  • SOLID principles
  •  Unit Testing
  • Understands and uses software patterns.
  •  REST
  •  DevOps
• .Net (C#)
• Asp.Net
• Application Development (Blazor / Angular / React)
• Experience in one or more of:
  • Mobile Application Development
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Containers
  • AAD / SSO (single sign-on) / Federated security
• WebAPI
• One or more unit testing (examples: MS Test, NUnit) and mocking frameworks (examples: RhinoMocks, Moq, NSubstitute)
• One or more Dependency Injection frameworks (Unity, Castle Windsor, SimpleInjector, NInject)
• Database experience
  •  Azure SQL
  • NoSQL – Cosmos / Mongo DB
• Git

Whilst Hitachi Solutions is respectful of our employees work / life balance candidates should be prepared to undertake travel to client sites throughout the UK and internationally if required.

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