Solutions Architect

Solution Architect
London
Perm
Up to £100,000pa

My client believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, they create opportunity from complexity. There diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, they are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

Job description

Do you crave collaboration and love creating insights that help organizations improve their agility in response to a rapidly changing market?

• We led and coordinated the UKs ventilator challenge to produce 30,000 ventilators in just eight weeks saving lives all over the country!
• We helped to launch an award-winning Internet of Things cloud platform to handle 24 million messages a day across 12 countries!
• We worked with the NIHR to develop a new system to update and track the progress of clinical trials in the fight against dementia.

Does this sound like the type of work you want to be involved in?

As an Architect at you will work on leading programmes like this with the ability to use your passion for leading technologies to make genuine real-world impact. You will bring hands on’ experience to design and deliver cutting edge business solutions working end-to-end from CXO through to delivery. Working here will put you as a technical leader and you will utilise your knowledge of production software development to support and lead FTSE 100 clients. You will have access to the latest training and certifications including AWS, Azure and GCP plus access to our own extensive courses and mentoring programme.

Flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance

Qualifications

You will have:

* A consistent track record in providing technical leadership in areas including application, business, and integration architectures.
Must be comfortable across all architecture domains and specialise in at least one of:
- Architecture domain
- Business domain, (e.g. CRM, eCommerce)
- Sector
- Technologies/vendors
* Experience of performing solution options assessment, including product selection and analysis of patterns and sourcing approaches
* The ability to deliver strategic thinking to stakeholders through Architecture Roadmaps, mentoring and technical thought leadership.
* Working knowledge of architecture modelling tools and frameworks, e.g. UML, ArchiMate, etc.
* An appreciation of the commercial, people and organisational aspects of your work
* Candidates should have a deep knowledge of the technologies you have worked with and an appreciation of or exposure to emerging technologies and architectural trends, including, for example:
- Microservices vs Packaged Solutions
- Cloud vs On-premise • Digital transformation enablement
- Cloud architectures, with experience of AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure
- Broad span of vendors: IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, etc.
- The architects’ role in agile delivery • Internet of Things