Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Location: Bristol, London, Corsham

Salary: up to £75,000- £80,000 depending on experience

Responsibilities:

As a solution architect, you will be responsible for the design, description and managing the development of solutions to support our client’s business strategies. Leading and/or supporting initiatives and introducing technical visions for a solution within the Enterprise Architecture Framework. Your responsibilities will include:

• Driving through customer strategies in often complex, mixed technology environments.
• Balancing technological and business solutions to address client needs.
• Defining features, requirements and development phases against which delivery must be made.
• Developing solution specifications in line with business strategies and appropriate frameworks.

Requirements:

• A degree in a science, computing or engineering subject, or equivalent experience.
• Proven work experience as a Solution Architect, technology consultant or similar role.
• Experience with the use of Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as ISO42010, TOGAF, Zachman and the ITIL and IT4IT service architecture frameworks.
• Experience of systems design and delivery, applying engineering rigour through technical architecture modelling techniques.
• In-depth understanding of technology structure principles.
• Experience gathering and analysing system requirements.

Industry Experience:

• Experience working within Local Government, Regulated Industries, Defence or Security and Intelligence markets is beneficial.
• Appreciation and/or experience of different delivery methods such as Agile, SAFe, Scrum and their approaches such as scrums, backlogs.

The Individual:

• Excellent stakeholder management with focus on nurturing & developing strong relationships
• Strong consulting skills, knowledge of a variety of techniques and methods to capture, elaborate and understand client challenges (structured thinking, effective report writing and presentations, and strong stakeholder engagement).
• Good negotiation, communication and relationship building skills; able to influence business decisions and formulate positive relationships with customers, strategic partners and colleges.
• A high-level of self-initiation, organisation and enthusiasm.
• Motivated to drive the design and delivery of solutions that realize the outcomes for the client’s needs.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence effectively across multiple media.
• Personable team player, able to work under guidance and own initiative, adding expertise and value to project deliverables.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A strong interest and appreciation of technology trends and government IT strategy such as, Cloud, Internet of Things, Cyber Security, Big Data and digital service design and delivery.