What you’ll be doing
as a Solution Architect
1. Understand the problem space: delivery of solution architectures and designs through their full lifecycle.
2. Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualise solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
3. Create and maintain the architecture models and related reference data in our enterprise repository as part of your normal project tasks.
4. Facilitate the evaluation and selection of solution options, software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
5. Provide solution architecture deliverables, including current and target state architecture, standard definitions, reference models, architecture designs and patterns.
6. Supports product managers in product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
7. 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 some software engineering.
Base location – Hybrid – Clear Water Court Reading
36 hours a week.
We are recruiting for 4 x Solution Architect positions
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
8. Being able to lead a project from an architecture perspective, ensuring that all decisions that are architecturally relevant can be taken following the appropriate governance (including peer review) and proactively informing the project plan in that direction.
9. Excellent communication skills with ability to operate within cross-functional teams.
10. A track record of delivery in both waterfall and agile environments.
11. Practical experience using an architecture framework such as TOGAF or ArchiMate
12. Educated to degree level or equivalent in a STEM subject.
Extra qualities that would be a great fit for our team:
13. Experience using an architecture modelling tool such as BiZZdesign, Sparx, Lean IX, CACI MooD, Orbus.
14. Exposure to process modelling, for example, in BPMN.
15. Certification in an architecture framework. (e.g. TOGAF or ArchiMate)
What’s in it for you?
16. Competitive salary of up to £90,000 per annum, depending on experience.
17. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
18. Car Allowance.
19. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
20. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
21. Private Medical Health Care.
22. 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.