What this person will be doing:
* Empowering our customers to overcome their technical challenges while collaboratively crafting innovative solutions and shaping their strategic technical vision and roadmaps.
* Setting the technical standards for solution development within the club, ensuring that all solutions delivered to clients meet their needs and that the team consistently delivers quality solutions.
* Facilitating “Innovation Day” type workshops to accelerate Discovery and Alpha activities, understanding stakeholder problems (both explicit and implicit) and offering potential solutions.
* Working with Club (and wider) stakeholders on bid activities.
* Recruiting and inspiring the technical staff within the club, line managing the Solution Architect contingent, and providing the necessary advice and support to help them realize their potential.
* Influencing the growth and delivery strategies for the club, sitting within the club Design Authority structure to ensure effective execution of those strategies.
Role Requirements:
* This role requires a driven, passionate, senior leader within the club, possessing the necessary people skills to inspire confidence in clients and colleagues and facilitate collaborative working practices in a complex stakeholder environment.
* Solid technical skills are essential to be credible when developing concept solutions and estimating the effort required to bring them to fruition.
* The individual must possess the integrity to do the right thing by stakeholders and challenge groupthink or substandard solutions.
* The Principal Solutions Architect will provide the technical face of the club, setting and enforcing technical standards via the club Design Authority, ensuring quality and security are integrated into all products. They will inspire, motivate, and support the team to realize their potential.
* The role requires someone who can interact with stakeholders, interpret their needs and frustrations, and provide credible solutions to resolve them.
* A strategic problem solver and innovator, comfortable with navigating ambiguity, willing to make decisions based on available information, and having the humility to revisit those decisions when new information arises.
* A broad understanding of technology platforms, especially on-premise Kubernetes implementations and AWS architectural components, is necessary, along with experience implementing the development frameworks used within Zaizi. Knowledge of cyber security best practices, especially with cloud-hosted solutions, is also important.
* Estimating technical costs and development effort to support budgeting and bid activities is a key facet of the role.
* Credibility to act as a point of escalation and advocate for the technical functions within the club, with the necessary experience, tact, and diplomacy to line manage the Solutions Architects effectively.
* Strong presentation skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas to senior stakeholders within the client business.
* Experience overseeing the containerization of third-party applications, migration from on-prem to cloud services (predominantly AWS), and overseeing software development teams would be advantageous.
SC Clearance:
Zaizi works with UK Central Government departments on various projects. To work on our customer projects, employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to our Government customers. Therefore, we can currently only recruit candidates who have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and who have lived in the UK for the last 5+ years continuously.
Interview Process:
1st stage: Initial phone screening done by a member of the recruitment team.
2nd stage: Technical interview evaluating your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities.
Final Stage: 10-15 min presentation and a panel interview with multiple people from different departments.
Salary: £105k - £120k
25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays.
BUPA medical insurance.
Workplace Pension 5% employer contribution.
Group Life Assurance.
Cyclescheme.
5 days a year for approved training.
WFH equipment allowance.
Buy / Sell holiday.
2 days paid volunteering days.
Other benefits:
Flexible working.
Work on exciting projects - make a difference.
Empowered to make decisions.
Encouraged to fail fast and learn quickly.
For further information contact: T
Nat Hinds - Head of Talent
Kayla Kirby - Talent Acquisition Specialist
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