Job Description
Sky Italia is looking for a highly qualified Digital Solution Architect to join our team in IT Digital Channels Platform area. This position offers an extraordinary opportunity to lead technological initiatives and contribute to the development of innovative solutions for our digital products.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
Design scalable, secure, and high-performance software and system architectures for applications and services, emphasizing modularity and reusability.
Provide technical guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Ensure solutions align with business goals, security standards, and industry best practices.
Lead advanced design and development activities, ensuring the adoption of best practices and the latest technologies.
Guide and mentor members of the development team, contributing to their growth and project success.
Actively participate in evaluating and implementing new technologies and solutions.
Collaborate with other teams to ensure integration and interoperability of designed solutions, with an emphasis on code reuse.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
Proven experience as a Solution Architect and/or Principal Engineer in complex projects.
Advanced skills in solution architecting, with knowledge of most common architectural design patterns
Experience in software design and development, with knowledge of modern programming languages.
Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders.
Established experience in designing and implementing solutions on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
In-depth knowledge of cybersecurity regulations and GDPR compliance.
Proficiency in developing RESTful APIs and microservices, ensuring modularity, scalability, and a focus on reusable components.
Excellent problem-solving skills and results-oriented mindset.
Leadership skills with the ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Excellent proficiency in both written and spoken English.
Nice to Have:
Front-end development experience, with skills in technologies such as Angular for web applications and Kotlin/Swift for mobile development.
AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
Familiarity with tools like Confluence, draw.io and plantUML for formalizing and documenting solutions.
Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
With 24 million customers across six countries, Sky is Europe’s leading media and entertainment company and is proud to be part of the Comcast group. Our 32,000 employees help connect our customers to the very best entertainment, sports, news, arts and to our own local, original content. Following the success of Sky originals like Chernobyl, we plan to double our investment in original content by 2024. We’re also developing a new TV and movie studio, Sky Studios Elstree, which is expected to lead to the creation of over 2,000 new jobs and generate an additional £3 billion of production investment in UK creative sector in the first five years alone.
Our technology allows Sky customers to watch what they want, when they want, how they want and connects millions of people to content they love. And our online streaming service, NOW, brings viewers all the enjoyment of Sky with the flexibility of a contract-free service. We also believe that a company of our scale has a responsibility that goes beyond our business, and into the community. We recently announced a series of commitments to help tackle racial injustice and improve diversity and inclusion.
To ensure the commitments are delivered, Sky will invest £10million per year across its markets for each of the next three years. We’re committed to being Europe’s first net zero carbon entertainment company by 2030 – two decades before we have to – and we’re an inclusive employer recognised by The Times and Stonewall for our commitment to diversity.