Solution Architect

UK

£80,000 - £85,000 + excellent perm benefits

Candidates must have the eligibility to gain SC level clearance

A leading UK organisation is currently recruiting for a Solution Architect who will provide the technical leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design tasks required for the development of an enterprise's technical architecture. The successful solution architect will help develop the evolving corporate application and technical infrastructure to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes.

Main Duties:

Work with other (e.g., enterprise, business, information, and solutions architects) to analyse business context (business strategy and trends), as well as change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints (such as business, information and solution) to derive the technology architecture future state. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise.
Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate.
Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.
Lead the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. In addition, lead the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the enterprise technology architecture.
Assist with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance.
Oversee, or consult on, technology implementation and modification activities (for example, projects), particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions. Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonise systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify to accommodate immediate or future project needs.
Oversee and facilitate the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.
Requirements:

Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations and how they relate to achieving targeted business outcomes
Ability to estimate the financial impact of technology alternatives
Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to enable future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive targeted business outcomes
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of existing, new and emerging technologies that enable and drive new business designs and models
Demonstrated ability to work well with others and be respected as a leader