Time left to apply End Date: January 17, 2025 (13 days left to apply)
job requisition id R030038
Award-winning and bold innovation. Modern Tech-Stack. Impacting the future.
Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Closing date: 16 January 2025 23:55
This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment.
Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews with an exercise
Interview date: From the week commencing 20 January 2025
How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.
Cancer Research UK has an ambitious Technology strategy and modern Tech Stack with a complex hybrid (on-premise & multi-cloud) infrastructure underpinning an extensive technical estate that supports the charity’s ability to deliver a range of change initiatives and programmes and support our vision and strategy. Our Architecture team is at the forefront of technological innovation in the charity sector and plays an essential role in ensuring our technical architecture supports the charity’s diverse needs and ambitions across a range of products and services used by 4,000+ staff, 600+ shops, and thousands of supporters who raised £463m towards our life-saving research in 2023/24.
As our Lead Solution Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the technological future of Cancer Research UK by collaborating closely with our product portfolios, providing technical leadership, and defining end-to-end solutions that enable our lifesaving work. Based on your experience and background, you will be the subject matter expert within a specific specialism of architecture (such as business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, service, etc).
This is your chance to make a real difference while advancing your career in a supportive environment. If you are an experienced Solution Architect with in-depth knowledge in one of the above architecture domains who wants to leverage technology to accelerate change in a purpose-driven environment, we’d love for you to join our mission.
What will I be doing?
1. Developing multi-product architecture artifacts, collaborating with Product Teams to build self-sufficiency in design and architecture.
2. Partnering with Heads of Product Portfolios and Product Managers to support roadmap development and provide early triage.
3. Providing architecture support, coaching, and solution assurance across Technology’s product portfolios.
4. Addressing key design decisions, balancing risks, benefits, and outcomes for complex technical problems.
5. Collaborating with Lead Engineers and other technology teams to ensure the documented current state is maintained for change assessment and operational support.
6. Communicating and coordinating architecture development and technical change across portfolios and products (including those delivered by our partners).
7. Contributing to and building an active Architecture community across capabilities and partners.
8. Providing in-depth expertise within at least one specialised domain of architecture, from: business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, or service.
Leadership & Drive for Impact:
1. Building credible stakeholder relationships across the charity ensuring to value ideas, drive momentum, and challenge when required.
2. Balancing short-term needs with long-term strategic goals.
3. Translating complex information and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
4. Driving the direction and output on day-to-day workload and priorities while navigating ambiguity and making clear and timely decisions in changing situations.
5. Mentoring and coaching colleagues, fostering a culture of continuous learning and leading through others.
Resource Management:
1. Reducing costs by proactively challenging to enable the optimal cost of resource ownership and delivered architecture.
2. Building inclusive environments and working with third parties.
What skills will I need?
1. Experienced Architect with extensive experience in at least one of the following architecture domains: business, enterprise, solution, infrastructure, data, security, platform, or service.
2. Has implemented new technologies within an integrated architecture in large, complex organisations.
3. Solid understanding of modern software and platform architecture approaches (e.g., microservices and cloud, etc).
4. Experience delivering architecture through Agile Product teams.
5. Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, etc.), industry-wide best practices, and emerging technologies.
6. Modelling and documenting experience with the ability to create models and visualisations to enable others to understand the architecture.
7. Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.
If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you.
What will I gain?
We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.
Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen. Please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 0 20 3469 8400 as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.
About Us
As the world’s largest independent cancer research charity, we conduct research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Our aim is to see 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034 and our staff are integral to achieving that ambition. Cancer Research UK offers you excellent prospects to expand your career as well as the ability to make a real difference to the lives of others. We're always looking for sharp, brave, and collaborative people to join Cancer Research UK and continue to make it a great place to work. Find the career you're looking for and let us change lives together.
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