Salary: 90,000 - 90,000 GBP per year Requirements:
* To be successful in this role, you will require the following qualifications and experience:
* 7 years of experience in a Solutions / Technical Architecture capacity, delivering end-to-end solutions across all phases of the project lifecycle for a medium or large organization.
* Experience in developing enterprise-wide architectures within an Enterprise Architecture Framework, such as TOGAF.
* Knowledge of systems integration standards, including ESB, SOA, JSON, XML, Micro Services, APIs, and messaging solutions.
* Knowledge and experience in testing for non-functional requirements.
* Familiarity with build, deployment, change, and release processes and automation.
* Experience with web technologies, enterprise software platforms, and database-driven applications such as Java EE/Oracle.
* Experience in designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS or similar cloud-based technology.
* Line management experience with the ability to provide coaching and mentoring as needed to a small team of Solution Architects.
* Strong communication skills, able to communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Ability to develop architecture policies, standards, and guidelines.
* Familiarity with establishing analytics techniques and capabilities to enable the business to generate insights, create value, and drive decision-making.
* Experience in analysis within an agile team, describing requirements in terms of Themes, Epics, User Stories, and acceptance criteria.
* An understanding of terms such as backlog, burndown, and velocity.
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Developer, or SysOps Associate certification would be advantageous.
* ITIL Foundation certification would also be advantageous.
Responsibilities:
* In this role, you will be accountable for:
* Leading the solution architecture team to deliver appropriate technology solutions in various technology areas, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed upon with internal and external stakeholders.
* Investigating business issues and technology problems, providing innovative solutions.
* Taking full responsibility for balancing functional, service quality, and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organization.
* Establishing policy and strategy for the selection of solution architecture components, coordinating design activities, and promoting discipline to ensure consistency.
* Directing the creation and review of an enterprise capability strategy to support the strategic requirements of the business.
* Identifying the business benefits of alternative strategies.
* Directing the development of enterprise-wide architecture and ensuring compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities, and technology directions by setting strategies, policies, standards, and practices.
* Taking responsibility for a significant architecture consultancy practice, including practice development and proposals to internal or external clients on a wide range of topics.
* Champing the importance and value of systems design principles and appropriately selecting systems design lifecycle models, whether plan-driven or more iterative/agile.
* Contributing to assuring solution designs within the architecture community and supporting peers, ensuring adherence to IT Strategy, Standards, Policies, and Practices.
* Building long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external) and facilitating open relationships between them.
* Allocating responsibilities and/or packages of work within the solution architecture team, delegating as appropriate.
* Proactively ensuring effective working relationships within the team and with others who the team interacts with.
* Implementing resource plans, including conducting recruitment interviews.
Technologies:
* AWS
* Architect
* Cloud
* ESB
* Support
* ITIL
* JSON
* Java
* Java EE
* Oracle
* TOGAF
* Web
* XML
More:
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