Senior Solutions Architect

Inside IR35
Remote working

You'll be responsible for the delivery of the high-level architectures and solution designs for the Corporate systems. You'll establish strong relationships with stakeholders by inspiring confidence in the delivery of a portfolio of business-focused projects and initiatives. You'll follow project delivery and architecture frameworks. You'll be very familiar with SaaS - based solutions and with Cloud best practices, with a strong preference for Azure. You will be leading effective conversations with Cloud and infrastructure architects, Security architects and engineering. You'll show ability to quickly address problems at the right level, from high level application architecture to detailed integration patterns.

A key part of the role will be to ensure we make progress on our key issues, while keeping solutions aligned to organization and industry standards and with other programs/projects, for which a seamless collaboration with your team and with other Architects across the business is fundamental.

What do I need?
You'll need to demonstrate that you'll be able to perform in the following areas:
Understand the problem space: delivery of solution architectures and designs for solutions through their full lifecycle, while maintaining alignment with IT/industry standards and company strategy
Being recognized as a trusted adviser to business stakeholders and being able to quickly "map" the business needs to application functionality/features.
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 (including peer review) and proactively informing the project plan in that direction

• A track record of delivery in both waterfall and agile environments.

• Understanding of Event Driven Architectures and related patterns.

• Experience with Oracle eBusiness suite architecture would be an advantage.

• Excellent communicator with ability to operate within cross functional teams

• Understand a broad range of technologies, ideally including current digital technologies,
• Integration and Public Cloud - specifically Azure.

• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies

• Understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, or client/server systems

• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation

• Strong leadership skills

• Excellent planning and organisational skills

• Excellent analytical and technical skills

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