The Opportunity:
With grand ambition and a funding commitment the organisation will look to you to act as a key facilitator between Operational and Development teams to ensure services and products are fit for purpose and user centric in their design.
This is an opportunity to join a business who have a clear roadmap to drive performance within the organisation whilst achieving their objective of delivering energy to their customers as a Net Zero company in the future.
They see this will be achieved by supporting customers through innovation and new ways of working.
The technology division is undergoing significant investment and they're recruiting a Solution Architect / System Architect to take ownership of a specialist service.
The Role:
- Steering the Agile Release Train (ART) by working closely with Release Train Engineers / Scrum Masters and Product Managers to provide necessary guidance
- Work proactively and closely with the Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment between the ART and the businesses technology landscape and target architecture
- Evolve and amend system design but keeping balance between implementation and architectural intent
- Offered on a Hybrid basis with roughly 5 trips to the Coventry site per month for when face to meetings deliver genuine business value.
- Paying circa £70-80k with a bonus, an excellent pension scheme (double matched), 25 days holiday and a focus on well-being, ED&I and fantastic career opportunities
The Person:
As a Solution Architect you'll have a blend of technical skills but also a strong appreciation of business drivers and be comfortable working closely with key business stakeholders to ensure that technology solutions deliver genuine business value.
You'll have worked in a Corporate / Large scale environment as a Solutions Architect or Systems Architect and will have worked closely with Enterprise Architects across a range of functions.
There's a preference for the person to have Agile Delivery experience following the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Any experience within the Utilities industry is a bonus but is not essential and comparable industries will be acceptable