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An innovative, creative technical architect to come up with the best technical solution in any situation - even the seemingly impossible. You'll have an inquiring mind, and a desire to stay at the cutting edge of the digital world, plus the confidence and communications skills to inspire clients with your vision.

You'll provide the initial technical thinking for a range of interactive projects, helping us deliver great ROI to a wide range of public sector organisations, blue-chip corporate clients and world-famous brands.

Working with our sales and account teams, you'll identify the technical requirements of a new opportunity. You'll work to develop innovative, effective solutions, researching and prototyping new technologies (Flex, Silverlight, Microsoft Surface etc) and creating a proposal that packs a real punch.

You'll pitch your technical vision directly to our clients, as well as to our internal teams.

After formally handing over your technical designs to the development team, you'll be on hand over the lifetime of a project to offer consultation or respond to technical issues raised by the client or the team.

You'll analyse customer and competitor sites according to industry best practice, and constantly consider innovative uses of technology to propose to our existing client base.

You'll also get the chance to help shape Fortune Cookie's technical strategy, using your experience to help us refine and develop our processes and competencies.

• Has an outstanding technical awareness, including knowledge of emerging digital technologies and current web, mobile and handheld device browser capabilities
• Can advise and lead on technical research and development
• Knows how to inspire and persuade in pitches, communicating a compelling technical vision to clients of all management levels
• Works well in a mixed team and as a leader, helping inspire developers to deliver technical excellence
• Understands the commercial aspect of agency work – who can contribute the technical component to business cases and help salespeople to describe and present solutions as part of a commercial offer
• Relishes the challenge of working in a dynamic, fast-paced digital agency environment
• Has excellent time-management skills and can deliver a clear progress report to a project manager
• Has excellent communication skills including written English, verbal presentation and visual representation

• A university degree from an internationally-recognised institution, in either computer science, physics, chemistry, mathematics or engineering
• an advanced technical certification from Microsoft such as MCPD in a relevant technology (eg ASP.Net development)
• Previous commercial development experience in .NET (essential) - other platforms would be beneficial
• Specific experience developing web applications in the travel, tourism and leisure, retail or financial services sectors, and designing distributed, transactional systems
• Experience of developing web applications within enterprise architectures
• Experience of social media, community, CMS, CRM systems, booking engines or other enterprise systems
• Experience in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) with knowledge of UML
• Experience of at least one .Net enterprise content management system such as EPiServer, Immediacy, Sitecore, Ektron or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
• Data modelling and design for relational databases as well as XML
• The ability to identify risks and outlining assumptions and dependencies associated with adopting particular technical solutions or approaches

You'll be working for a successful, award-winning digital agency in central London. You will be part of a creative, talented team and play a key role creating innovative interactive projects for big-name clients - public sector organisations, blue-chip corporate clients and world-famous brands. A competitive salary and benefit package awaits the right candidate. And we've been accredited as one of the best companies to work for in the UK.

Even in this challenging climate, we're expanding rapidly - all because of our ruthless focus on delivering measurable ROI for our clients. As we continue to grow, we need more brilliant people to deliver more world-class work to our clients.