Job title: Solutions Architect
Ref: 39413
Division: Digital Transformation
Location: Hybrid - Clearwater Court - RG1 8DB
Contract type: Permanent
Full/Part-time: Full-time
Salary: Competitive salary of up to £90,000 per annum depending on experience
Job grade: C
Closing date: 25/02/2025
In team Digital, we’re planning for a future where the technology solutions we co-create and design enable us to achieve our goal to protect our greatest natural resource and allow our customers, communities and the environment to thrive.
A key part of the role will be to ensure we make progress on our key issues, whilst keeping solutions aligned to organization and industry standards and with other programs for which a seamless collaboration with your team and with other Architects across Thames Water is fundamental.
What you’ll be doing as a Solutions Architect
* Understand the problem space: delivery of solution architectures and designs through their full lifecycle
* Understand the business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) determine solution designs to drive the targeted business outcomes
* Creating architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
* Facilitate the evaluation and selection of solution options, software product standards and services
* Supporting product managers in product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
* Using your experience on projects to suggest and implement changes to our modelling environment to better support the needs of our various stakeholders
* Create and maintain the architecture models and related reference data in our enterprise repository as part of your normal project tasks
What you should bring to the role
* A truly digital mindset. Open to collaboration. Open to risk. Open to new ways of doing things.
* Obsessed with data. Obsessed with excellence.
* People who think and behave differently to the way we do. People who don’t want to just be another cog in the machine.
* Being able to lead a project from an architecture perspective, ensuring that all decisions that are architecturally relevant can be taken following the appropriate governance
* Experience of working in both waterfall and agile environments
* Practical experience using an architecture framework such as TOGAF or ArchiMate
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Educated to degree level or the equivalent
* Experience with programming in a high-level language
* Some exposure to process modelling, for example in BPMN
What’s in it for you?
* Competitive salary of up to £90,000 per annum depending on experience
* Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays)
* Private Medical Health Care
* Gym pass: providing a free fitness plan and access to several wellbeing apps to employees and up to 3 family members, as well as paid plans with discount at gyms across our region and the UK
* Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution
* Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year
* Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.
Who are we?
We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people and the planet to thrive.
Working at Thames Water
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.
Our overarching aim is to ensure that Thames Water is great, diverse and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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