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The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. You'll be responsible for the delivery of the high-level architectures and solution designs across current and new systems. You'll establish strong relationships with stakeholders by inspiring confidence in the delivery of a portfolio of business-focused projects and initiatives.
Job Responsibility:
Understand the problem space: delivery of solution architectures and designs through their full lifecycle
Maintaining alignment with IT/industry standards and company strategy
Liaison with project stakeholders to understand/improve requirements and specification of a solution design, in appropriate modelling languages, in particular ArchiMate
Interface with domain and platform architects to ensure conformance with principles and guardrails
Facilitate the evaluation and selection of solution options, software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations
Supports product managers in product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
Use your experience on projects to suggest, and in some cases implement, changes to our modelling environment to better support the needs of our various stakeholders
this may require an amount of software engineering
Requirements:
Educated to degree level or equivalent in a STEM subject
A degree in a STEM discipline or equivalent practical experience
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional and technical teams
Proven track record of delivering complex solutions within both Waterfall and Agile delivery environments
Hands-on experience applying recognised enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, ArchiMate) to design and govern solution architectures
Working knowledge of software development principles, with practical programming experience or strong technical literacy
Nice to have:
Experience using enterprise architecture or modelling tools such as BiZZdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, LeanIX, CACI MooD, or Orbus
Exposure to business or technical process modelling and optimisation
Formal certification in an architecture framework (e.g. TOGAF, ArchiMate) or related professional accreditation
What we offer:
Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
Car Allowance
Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
Generous Pension Scheme through AON
Private Medical Health Care
Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance