Solution Architect
* Annual Salary: Competitive
* Location: Oxford (Hybrid - minimum 2 days per week onsite)
* Job Type: Full-time
A new exciting Solution Architect permanent position has become available, working with a market leading educational publisher organisation, where you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering complex, multi-component customer-facing systems and applications.
This includes digital platforms, web and eCommerce applications, and online research platforms. You will provide hands-on technical leadership, collaborating closely with product owners and various teams to ensure our technology solutions align with business goals and architectural standards.
Day-to-day of the role:
* Collaborate with product or system owners to understand their requirements and challenges, creating high-level design documents to address these effectively.
* Work alongside other architecture colleagues to define all aspects of solution design, including technology selection and workflow processes.
* Drive the design and delivery of solutions that align with long-term technology strategies and architectural principles.
* Translate strategic goals into capabilities, ensuring initiatives are prioritized to deliver essential business growth.
* Guide development teams and vendors in implementing architectural patterns and coding standards.
* Provide consultancy and mentoring across the architectural community, facilitating design reviews and identifying opportunities for framework-oriented strategies.
* Collaborate with internal and third-party engineering teams to ensure alignment with target architecture and standards.
* Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
* Develop technical talent through effective supervision, coaching, and mentoring.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
* Experience in technically leading development teams and acting as the technical authority.
* Deep understanding of product technology development and its application to meet business needs.
* Proven experience in delivering product solutions within a customer-facing product delivery SaaS environment.
* Familiarity with Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile methodologies.
* Ability to deliver solutions to required quality within agreed budget and timescales.
* Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture principles and cloud-based technologies, especially AWS.
* Strong communication skills with effective stakeholder management capabilities.
* Experience in the publishing or closely related industries with an emphasis on digital technology is desirable.
Benefits:
* 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days), increasing with service.
* 35-hour working week with flexibility in working patterns depending on the role.
* Active employee networks and societies.
* Pension contributions up to 12%.
* Loans and savings schemes through Salary Finance.
* Travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
* Private medical insurance and a management bonus.