Reading/Exeter/Remote
What it's like to work at Landmark:
We're a friendly, dynamic and supportive team. We encourage being bold, dreaming big and active, curious minds, both in our performance as a team and individually. We actively promote involvement in the development and direction of our products and services, as well as finding new and more efficient ways to work. We love to get together to do great work and be sociable. As well as this we offer:
1. Competitive salary
2. 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with optional 5 days unpaid leave per year
3. Annual lifestyle allowance of £300 to put towards an activity of your choice
4. Pension matched up to 6% for the 1st 3 years and matched up to 10% thereafter
5. Private Health Insurance – currently via Vitality
6. Group Income Protection Scheme
7. Matched funding for Charitable fundraising
8. Cycle to Work scheme and Gym Flex scheme
9. Internal coaching/mentoring system throughout your time here
10. Focus on training and career progression
11. Family friendly policies
12. Free parking
The Opportunity
The Solution Architect is responsible for defining the solution view for specific problems in the enterprise, from the application, data, and infrastructure perspectives across Landmark Information Group, whilst ensuring alignment with the architecture strategy.
Your role will involve:
13. Defining and owning the solution architectures, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states
14. Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment to the architecture strategy, vision and principles
15. Communicating solution architectures at the governing architecture review board, and addressing any actions
16. Working with Software Engineering to ensure implementation alignment to the solution
17. Managing architectural risk and debt at a solution level
About You
To be successful as a Solution Architect you will have experience in a similar role and be someone who can communicate to all levels of stakeholders. You will demonstrate excellent skills in solution architecture, including defining architectural functional and non-functional requirements, architectural diagrams, data flows, total cost of ownership, standards and design patterns.
You will also have/be:
18. Collaborative, curious, creative and accountable
19. Proven experience of defining, communicating and delivering quality solution architectures in one or both of the following clouds, Azure and AWS
20. Enthusiasm for the technology and property industries, with an ability to identify innovation opportunities
21. Question the why? Be able to ask questions, suggest alternative options and drive continuous improvement
22. Commercially astute