Solution Architect/WFO/Hampshire/Permenant or contract/Good market rate

This architect will be leveraged across the transformation business, and so will need to be able to support both High and Low Level design.

Job spec

Solution Architects required to join established Architecture Team working closely with customers, external subcontractors, project management and technical teams.

5+ years of Solution/Technical Architect experience, working with multiple technologies as part of an enterprise architecture - complex, large scale, business critical.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist Transformation in the provision of high and low level solution architecture
• Generate conceptual, logical and physical architecture documents for a project/program
• Contribute to estimation and risk assessments
• Provide technical leadership and oversight during change proposal assessment
• Contribute to short time-frame change impact assessments, feasibility studies & costed IT proposals and be comfortable with producing architecture models and designs
• Negotiate with key stakeholders including prioritisation of projects and resources
• Provide technical design assurance for new projects, operational change and enhancements
• Identifying and resolving impacts of changes to the technical architecture
• Be a point of reference and authority for Solution and Technical Architecture on a program/project
• Assist in establishment of the Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology.
• Report to Enterprise Architects within the Architect practise

Essential Skills:

• 5+ years of Solution/Technical Architect experience
• Exposure to business critical, high availability design and deployment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to write clear documentation
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to all stakeholders
• SC clearance

Desirable Skills:

• Certification in TOGAF, ITIL, or IT4IT
• Skilled or familiar with Archimate or UML
• Experience of one or more of the following: Virtualization (VMware and OVM), Windows environment, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware components
• Experience of major transformation programmes with knowledge of migration to cloud services
• Experience of OCI or similar cloud services delivery

Permanent or Contract role. If Contract, it will be inside IR35