Solutions Architect City/State Location UK/Basingstoke Department Legal - Information Security Apply Now (https://lde.tbe.taleo.net/lde02/ats/careers/v2/applyRequisition?orgGGS&cws74&rid9375) ROLE TITLE: Solutions Architect FUNCTION: CIO & CISO Office REPORTING: Director, Information Security & IT Architecture LOCATION: Basingstoke COMPANY OVERVIEW As a global leader in cash technology solutions, we provide the financial, retail, cash centre and gaming industries with confidence that their cash is protected and always working to help build a stronger business. Our cash automation technologies and process engineering services help businesses in more than 100 countries optimise the handling, movement and management of cash. While we span the globe, we personally engage with each customer to address their unique challenges and goals - enhancing staff efficiency, reducing operating costs and enabling a more rewarding customer experience. We offer peace of mind. We enable transformation. We generate options. We empower people. We do all this by releasing companies from the burden of cash management, putting cash to work, and helping customers enhance the value that their staff and facilities add to their business. ROLE PURPOSE In this newly created position, you will be responsible for the creation, direction & alignment of the Corporate IT architecture roadmap with the group business strategy. You will be required to direct management and stakeholders in the evaluation of the business strategy, ensuring the effective use of best of breed technology is applied to the architecture roadmap whilst ensuring the effective use of IT assets. Once defined, you will need to ensure the architectural requirements are clearly understood and work across the IT Delivery teams and subject matter experts to implement cost effective, supportable end-to-end high-level designs, adhering to enterprise, standards, security and service capability. This is not a hands-on engineering role, but a strong technical understanding and functional experience is essential. You must be a highly effective communicator and a supportive team player, taking a consultative approach whilst maintaining the integrity and independence of the General Affairs department. You will combine an ability to navigate organisational politics and manage stakeholders, with a talent for operational delivery and a strong sense of accountability for results. REQUIRED EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS - A technical degree or professional qualification. - Architecture qualifications (e.g. TOGAF, SAFe). - Experience in ITIL 4 (IT Service Management / Architecture Planning / Capacity Planning) - Strong experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations. REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE - Experience successfully leading architecture reviews and reducing complex ideas to simple terms, expressing rationale for decision making to both a technical and non-technical audience. - A strong track record of leadership working across organizations with multiple and varied technical teams (including third party integrators) to define, design, and drive the development and delivery of complex technical strategy and solutions. - An excellent understanding of enterprise system architectures. - Broad knowledge and experience of solution areas including infrastructure, cloud, transformation and migration, security, business analysis, applications, integration, service management and understands how all these interact to arrive to an end-to-end solution - Practical experience across a wide range of IT systems and technologies, such as server hardware, virtualization platforms, network and security infrastructure, storage and SAN, and databases. - Significant demonstrable experience with Cloud technologies including SaaS platforms. - Good knowledge of Information Security controls and proven experience of integrating these into architecture proposals. - Proven track record in the development of clear, concise and comprehensive documentation that can be presented across all levels of the organization - Experience of working in collaboration with Third party solution / integration partners with a strong focus on security and compliance at all levels. REQUIRED COMPETENCIES - A highly effective communicator and a supportive team player, taking a consultative approach whilst maintaining the integrity and independence of the Department. - Successfully combines an ability to navigate organisational politics, manage and influence stakeholders, with a talent for operational delivery and a strong sense of accountability for results. - Commitment to excellence and high standards; strong organizational skills; able to manage time, priorities and workload autonomously. - Comfortable to challenge seniority and existing processes. - Enjoys keeping up to date with Industry trends and customer requirements, the technology landscape and best practices to deliver technical roadmaps and plans enabling the group IT strategic objectives. - Experience of working across geographical boundaries in a Global Organisation (desirable). BENEFITS - Competitive salary - Annual bonus - 25 days' holiday with an option to purchase 5 additional days - Competitive company pension scheme - Private health and dental insurance - Employee rewards schemes - we recognise your hard work and achievements - Commutable from town centre, with a free shuttle bus to Business Park - Employee assistance programme - Employee Wellbeing events and Mental Health First Aiders - Employee Benefits portal offering extensive retail discounts - Ongoing training and development EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Glory believes in equal opportunity for all qualified persons and will not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of race, colour, religion, marital status, national origin, gender, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. Third Party Agencies Unsolicited resumes will not be accepted by Glory. Should an agency choose to send unsolicited resumes, Glory reserves the right to review such resumes but will not be held liable for any fees/charges associated with a candidate hire except where a formal written agreement is in place between Glory and the Agency to source candidates for a specific role. An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer / An E-Verify Employer It is the policy of Glory Global Solutions, Inc. to provide equal opportunity for all qualified persons and not to discriminate against any applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by state or local law at the Glory Global Solutions, Inc. location to which this application is submitted. In addition, as a Federal Government contractor, all Glory Global Solutions, Inc. locations are affirmative action employers. EEO Information http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf