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Solutions Architect

Reed
Posted 6 days ago, valid for 21 days
Location

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland NE19 2BG, England

Salary

£60,000 - £72,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

Retirement Plan

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Sonic Summary

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  • The Solutions Architect position focuses on developing solutions to address architectural challenges while aligning with business goals.
  • Candidates should have experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines and a proven track record in implementing digital transformation strategies.
  • The role offers a competitive salary of up to £70,000, depending on experience, along with a 15% annual performance bonus.
  • Additional benefits include 25 days of annual leave, flexible working arrangements, and a company-contributed pension scheme.
  • Applicants are encouraged to submit their CV highlighting relevant experience for this pivotal role.

Solutions Architect

This is a new opportunity for a Solutions Architect to spearhead our client’s technical initiatives, focusing on crafting and developing solutions that address specific architectural challenges while aligning with their business goals. This pivotal role involves translating system risks and constraints into actionable technical requirements and overseeing the delivery of strategic objectives.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Develop architectural blueprints that translate business and technical requirements into actionable strategies to meet business objectives, documenting all solution architecture designs and analyses.
  • Establish and maintain principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure decisions are in line with the enterprise’s future-state architecture vision.
  • Analyse business drivers and capabilities (both present and future) to determine corresponding enterprise solution designs and necessary changes to achieve desired business outcomes.
  • Oversee the evaluation and selection of software product standards, services, and the design configurations for both standard and bespoke software solutions.
  • Lead the design and analysis phases for the implementation of solutions architecture across various business applications or technologies, guided by the overarching business strategy.
  • Generate architectural designs that guide and contextualize the development of solutions across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
  • Support the Lead Architect in developing a multi-year architectural roadmap, integrating this vision into the IT planning, annual budgets, and forecasts.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

  • Experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, such as technical or infrastructure architecture, application development, or cloud development.
  • Demonstrated ability in developing architectural blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.
  • Proven track record in implementing digital transformation strategies that unlock new business opportunities and boost revenue growth and productivity.
  • Skilled in translating future-state business capabilities and requirements into detailed solution architecture requirements.
  • Well-versed in digitalisation within a regulated environment and experienced in managing complex, competing projects.
  • Comprehensive understanding of various system development life cycle methodologies, including waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary up to £70,000, based on experience.
  • Up to 15% annual performance bonus.
  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Flexible working arrangements, including up to 2 days per week remote.
  • 15% company contributed pension scheme.

To apply for the Solutions Architect role, please submit your CV outlining your relevant experience and your interest in this position.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.