Infrastructure Developers help clients build and evolve systems that client organizations use to deliver and run software. They are comfortable working within teams of people with diverse roles and levels of experience to find solutions that meet the needs of the organization. They combine technical expertise and understanding with consideration of different situational needs. They champion technical quality and effective ways of working as a means to better outcomes for clients, rather than an end in themselves. They help clients to understand agile ways of working and DevOps as a mindset for collaboration.

Job responsibilities

You will explore the client’s needs and drive the building of a technical roadmap and impactful solution that will support their ambitious business goals
You will help shape and build Thoughtworks’ cloud and infrastructure practice through collaboration with business development, marketing, and capabilities development teams
You will ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process
You will ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process
You will take a leading role in monitoring and ensuring that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects
You will provide expertise and guidance in the areas of DevOps, cloud, platform and infrastructure engineering, both internally and in client sites
You will establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client’s leadership across engineering and commercial functions
You will lead the design and implementation of innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

15+ years in enterprise software or technology consulting, with at least 6-8 years focused on solution shaping, technical pre-sales, or GTM strategy
Demonstrated experience managing or influencing a portfolio or book of business valued at $50+ million in total contract value
Proven success in strategic sales and executive solutioning engaging senior technology and product executives
Experience leading or shaping engineering transformation initiatives and legacy modernization programs across industries
Familiarity and interest for underlying technical topics such as platform engineering, developer experience, monolith decomposition, AI for software engineering, mainframes, etc.
Ability to articulate modernisation benefits and engineering improvement to business outcomes in terms of operational cost, TTM, talent retention, risk, strategic enablement
Comfortable influencing CIOs, CTOs, Heads of Architecture, and industry leaders
Deep experience in shaping complex modernisation and transformation deals with multiple stakeholders and long buying cycles
Understanding legacy systems, modernisation approaches (e.g., rehost, replatform, refactor), modern architectures and engineering practices including microservices, event-driven, CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud-native platforms, software delivery metrics, and AI-assisted development.
Knowledge of key drivers impacting software engineering in the enterprise (e.g., AI disruption, talent shortages, velocity pressure), digital transformation trends, regulatory and industry-specific modernisation triggers
Familiarity with modernisation tooling ecosystems, transformation roadmapping frameworks, AI-assisted dev tools and engineering metrics

Professional Skills

You genuinely enjoy interacting with teammates from across the business and have a knack for communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences
You love creating robust, scalable, flexible and relevant solutions that help transform businesses and industries
You’re comfortable partnering directly with leadership teams (CTO/CIO/COO) to design technical strategies while simultaneously collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity
You adapt effortlessly to uncertainty, embrace change and confidently make decisions with limited information to achieve positive outcomes

Other things to know

Learning & Development

There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

About Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. For 30+ years, our clients have trusted our autonomous teams to build solutions that look past the obvious. Here, computer science grads come together with seasoned technologists, self-taught developers, midlife career changers and more to learn from and challenge each other. Career journeys flourish with the strength of our cultivation culture, which has won numerous awards around the world.

Join Thoughtworks and thrive. Together, our extra curiosity, innovation, passion and dedication overcomes ordinary.

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