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Location: Hybrid - London office & home
Vacancy type: Permanent
Salary: £70,000 plus skills allowance (up to £5,000 dependent on experience)
Are you a Solutions Architect looking to put their mark on the work at one of the country’s biggest charities?
Our architecture vision is to deliver a reliable and efficient technical landscape, making it easier to deliver and support technology that grows our income and delivers British Heart Foundation's (BHF) mission.
About the role
In this role, you’ll develop a deep understanding of the technology and business ambitions of a key business programme in BHF, Enterprise Foundations. Working closely with the Programme and Architecture teams you’ll shape workstreams and lead solution design to enable the business ambitions and fulfil the architectural vision.
With a clear understanding of the suppliers, as‑is configuration, and capabilities of the technology you’ll provide governance and guidance to the engineering teams and suppliers to ensure the quality of delivered solutions.
Working arrangements
This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.
About you
As our ideal candidate, you’ll have previous knowledge and experience of Azure architecture frameworks and approaches, as well as knowledge of industry standards and best practices to ensure solutions are efficient, reliable, and scalable.
Qualifications
* Able to drive collaboration with virtual, multi-cultural and matrixed teams and 3rd parties.
* Able to take ownership of the deployment and service transition processes, ensuring smooth transition into operation.
* Extensive working experience in a solution architecture and technical design role, with expertise in Azure data landscapes, integrations and reporting.
* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to interact with stakeholders up to director level.
Able to lead technology change initiatives, you’ll work collaboratively with technology suppliers, creating both high-level and low-level designs that describe the technical architecture of a solution.
You’ll also have strong analytical skills to analyse complex business problems and requirements.
About us
We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.
First stage interviews will be a short one-way video interview; successful candidates will then be invited to attend an interview via MS Teams.
How to apply
It’s quick and easy to apply for a role at BHF. Just click through to our careers site to apply. All you’ll need is an up-to‑date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role’s criteria.
As part of our commitment to be an inclusive employer and ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for this role, BHF will use anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Information Technology, Management, and Project Management
Industries: Non‑profit Organizations and Technology, Information and Media
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