Job Description

ABOUT US:

We are the new operators of the UK\xe2\x80\x99s National Lottery license from February 2024. Join us as over the next year we embark on a large scale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to Good Causes. As one of the UK largest brands you will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with one of the UK biggest media budgets. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunities exist for people from within and outside the betting and gaming industry to join us play a part in giving the National Lottery a fresh start. Allwyn is part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group \xe2\x80\x93 a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy.

ROLE PURPOSE:

• Supporting the Enterprise Architecture Lead in defining and delivering the target state architecture for the 4th UK National Lottery transition period.

• Architect Digital applications across Web, mobile and back-end features across our transformation programme.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analyse functional and non-functional requirements to derive solution architecture

• Liaise closely with agile development teams to tease out requirements and collaborate on design approaches.

• Analyse the legacy technology environments and integrations to derive and design more modern holistic solutions, detecting critical deficiencies and recommending enhancements and improvements.

• Production of high and low level design documents

• Designing, developing, and implementing our digital gaming platforms, product architecture and integrations across a range of web, mobile and back end systems.

• Experience of frameworks, integrations and design patterns for developing secure business applications at scale.

• Strong analysis and problem solving, ideally with some coding and scripting skills

• Track record of Working with Data and product Architects to design enterprise class high performance solutions that are built for scale within diverse estates with multiple integrations

• comprehensive knowledge and application of modern Security Design Principles

• Familiarity with Cloud platforms (AWS, MS Azure)

• Work with Enterprise and Solutions Architects to analyse and produce key design artefacts

• Working with the Delivery teams on the implementation of low-level designs

• Work closely with the Technology team and partners to ensure system capacity (on-premise or in cloud) is available for successful project delivery

• Designing, documenting and liaising with 3rd parties to support planned technology implementations and the changes required to digital operations.

• Document where necessary Solution Architecture design and analysis work for communication, integration, maintenance, and assessment / audit

KEY MEASURES OF SUCCESS:

• Allwyn solution architecture ultimately delivers a secure, stable, and supportable environment

• The provided solutions design adhere to Allwyn Architecture principles

• The provided solutions are deliverable according to the Transition plan schedule

• The provided solutions successfully support the integration of legacy infrastructure and system KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• A true multi-disciplinary background within Solution Architecture with expert knowledge of the following: back end systems and integrations, Web and Mobile frameworks, Cloud (AWS/Azure) technologies.

• Track record of designing for Scale on site applications with millions of users

• Technical experience working with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.

• Practical experience of modern development practices around IDEs, automated build, test, deploy, reporting etc across the digital stacks.

• Working with Architecture frameworks (TOGAF), modelling languages (UML/ArchiMate/BPMN) in enterprise environments.

• Experience liaising with 3rd party suppliers and stakeholders to deliver complex business applications.

• Working within IT service delivery frameworks such ITIL and project methodologies such as Prince2/PMP/Agile/SAFE

• Ideally working within a regulated gambling, gaming or financial service company in a similar role.

• Delivering high and low level designs across multiple, concurrent projects

• 5-7 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in a Solution Architect role

• Experience of creating a narrative and being able to communicate complicated technology change stories in an effective manner.

• Excellent communication skills. Expert in influencing and motivating individuals and teams and used to operating up and down a multi-tiered management structure.

Here is our list of benefits:

• 33 days paid leave (this includes bank holidays)
• 4 x life insurance
• Pension 4.5%
• BUPA
• Denplan
• \xc2\xa3500 a year wellness allowance
• \xc2\xa3150 one off working from home payment

As part of our onboarding processes, all successful candidates will need to complete both a Pre-Employment Screening process and a Fit & Proper check by the Gambling Commission. These checks include a DBS (an enhanced check, which shows convictions and conditional cautions), credit and social media checks. As part of our application process, you will be asked to identify in advance if you have spent or unspent convictions that we need to be aware of. Should you not disclose convictions at the application stage, not pass the Fit & Proper Check process or not complete your Pre-Employment Screening then unfortunately you may not pass our probation process. All data will be handled in accordance with our data policies and treated with utmost confidentiality.