Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect
Manchester/Remote
£57K- £70K

A Solutions Architect is required for our public sector client who are based in Manchester. The successful candidate will lead and support enterprise architecture activities that guide the development and management of the tools used within IT at the organisation. The role will help ensure incoming tooling technology is delivered effectively and look to the future for new innovations. The role will be part of the Technology Leadership Group and work alongside other specialist architect roles and delivery teams. The Solutions Architect will be a key member of the divisional leadership team, providing strategic direction, anticipating challenges, driving performance, and building the capability required to ensure secure and robust technical solutions and supporting infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy, Architecture and Planning
* Works with other enterprise architects (e.g. business, network, security architects, etc.) to analyse enterprise business context (business strategy and trends).
* Leads development of architectures for tooling ensuring tools are utilised to their maximum potential.
* Leads the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt and recommends solutions for improvement.
* Establishes policy and strategy for the selection of solution architecture components.
* Assists with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products.
Strategic Change Delivery and Assurance
* Within a business change programme, manages the programme's target design, policies and standards with respect to technology tooling.
* Defines high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the future and current state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.
* Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to align systems or tools with the enterprise technology architecture.
* Advises on appropriate quality standards and quality control processes relating to solution architecture (including testing).
Emerging Technology Monitoring and Technical Specialism
* Plans and leads the identification and assessment of new and emerging technologies, products, services, methods and techniques.
* Creates technology roadmaps which align strategic plans with emerging technology solutions.
* Maintains knowledge of technical architectures at the highest level by representing the at conferences and seminars; meeting and maintaining contact with other professionals involved in solution architecture.
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:
Experience of design & implementation of IT tools and technologies with a deep knowledge of implementation and management of tooling such as Autopilot, ServiceNow, Intune, Jamf, Tanium and Zabbix and other key technologies.
Solid understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability to support agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
Demonstrable ability to understand the long-term ('big picture') and short-term perspectives of situations and how they related to achieving targeted business outcomes.
Desirable qualifications: Advanced ITIL, TOGAF, IASA