Reading/Exeter/Remote
What it's like to work at Landmark:
At Landmark, you'll find a friendly, dynamic, and supportive team that values bold ideas, big dreams, and active curiosity. We foster a culture of innovation, encouraging everyone to contribute to the development and direction of our products and services, while continuously seeking new and efficient ways to work.
Collaboration and sociability are at the heart of what we do, and we take pride in coming together to achieve great things.
We offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and career growth, including:
1. Competitive Salary
2. Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option of adding up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year
3. Annual Lifestyle Allowance: £300 to spend on an activity of your choice
4. Pension Scheme: Matched up to 6% for the first 3 years, and up to 10% thereafter
5. Private Health Insurance: Provided by Vitality
6. Group Income Protection Scheme
7. Charitable Fundraising: Matched funding for your efforts
8. Cycle to Work and Gym Flex Schemes
9. Internal Coaching and Mentoring: Available throughout your time with us
10. Training and Career Progression: A strong focus on your development
11. Family-Friendly Policies
12. Free Parking
Join us at Landmark and be part of a team that supports your ambitions and growth, both personally and professionally.
The Opportunity
The Solution Architect is responsible for defining the solution view for specific problems in the enterprise, from the application, data, and infrastructure perspectives across Landmark Information Group, whilst ensuring alignment with the architecture strategy.
Your role will involve:
13. Defining and owning the solution architectures, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states
14. Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment to the architecture strategy, vision and principles
15. Communicating solution architectures at the governing architecture review board, and addressing any actions
16. Working with Software Engineering to ensure implementation alignment to the solution
17. Managing architectural risk and debt at a solution level
About You
To be successful as a Solution Architect you will have experience in a similar role and be someone who can communicate to all levels of stakeholders. You will demonstrate excellent skills in solution architecture, including defining architectural functional and non-functional requirements, architectural diagrams, data flows, total cost of ownership, standards and design patterns.
You will also have/be:
18. Collaborative, curious, creative and accountable
19. Proven experience of defining, communicating and delivering quality solution architectures in one or both of the following clouds; Azure and AWS, as well as on-premise and hybrid environments
20. Enthusiasm for the technology and property industries, with an ability to identify innovation opportunities
21. Question the why? Be able to ask questions, suggest alternative options and drive continuous improvement
22. Commercially astute
23. Experience of application development/architecture would be a distinct advantage