Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Solutions Architect for an initial 12 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £600/day (Outside IR35). This role will be based in Edinburgh, however, attendance at the project site will only be required on an as-needed basis
Responsibilities:
- Working with business and change stakeholders in shaping, agreeing and delivering solution architectures aligned to wider Design, Innovation and Architecture principles and standards
- Ensure that detailed designs and delivery work is consistent with the agreed solution architecture
- Providing general technology guidance and advice to business and change stakeholders
- Identifying opportunities to deliver business benefit and user-centric capability through adoption of new technologies and/or new ways of working
- Collaborating with business stakeholders, business architects, other solution architects, product managers across the organisation and with external organisations and partners
Essential Skills:
- Technical and solution architecture and design including within programmes, projects or product-centric organisations
- Collaboratively devising technical standards, blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, transition states and target solutions across multiple services / organisations
- Interacting and influencing senior stakeholders and a wide range of people across organisations, suppliers, customers, internal departments and teams
- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives by helping to build solution design capability through delivery of solution architecture, standards and mentoring
- Delivery focussed
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities
- Familiar with working in a fast paced gated agile environment
- Able to grasp the existing ‘as is’ business and solution landscape
Desirable Skills:
- Working with Cloud Infrastructure & Security Specific Experience.
- Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
- Cloud Native/Hybrid Cloud architectures
- Cloud platform experience – e.g. – Microsoft Azure
- Solution Integration and Integration Layers
- SAAS package delivery and implementation experience
- IAAS experience
- PAAS experience
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.