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The role
You’ll take end-to-end ownership of solutions for our clients, and align them to business outcomes, technology strategy, commercial/financial constraints, and architecture governance.
You’ll create solutions blueprints with views that express business, data, application, and technology, to address stakeholder needs.
You’ll effectively communicate the solution through governance boards, stakeholder groups, and delivery teams to bring the solution to life and assure effective delivery.
UK Security Clearance (existing SC clearance or eligibility) is a requirement for our current permanent opportunities.
Experience in delivering digital services for the UK government is highly valuable for many of our projects. Therefore, familiarity with the GDS toolkit will be essential.
Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
We’ll want you to demonstrate experience of solutions architecture. You don’t need to have had the job title of solutions architect before.
In your CV and interview, please show how you have:
* built strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand their views.
* a strong foundation in software development, design, and delivery roles.
* enabled and assured a delivery team’s implementation of your solutions architectures effectively.
* worked with development life-cycle methodologies such as Agile software development, Scrum, and DevOps.
* a good working knowledge of architecture frameworks and modelling languages.
As well as solution architecture skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.
In the interview, please show how you:
* demonstrated the significant, tangible business benefits of the proposals you initiate for clients
* take a methodical and considered approach to solving problems
* take a collaborative and consultative approach to leading and guiding teams
* keep up to date with new and emerging technology trends and their practical application
Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:
* Experienced with Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Open Agile Architecture)
What our offer includes
A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
Flexible hours and 25 days' holiday.
People to support you every step of the way.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
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