Description
Solutiona Architect- Hybrid working- 6 months Outside ir35 to £650
Responsibilities
The Solution Architect has end to end accountability to design all IS initiatives and takes full ownership for the design and the design governance of solutions.
• Designing solutions to meet specific business needs, following strategic direction/principles and utilising standards, patterns and policies
• Understands business requirements and together with functional stakeholders create and curate design deliverables as the project directs
• Contributes to technology strategy and application roadmap/standards
• Designs solutions with architecture guidelines, build/buy and continuously evolve solutions
• Ensures proper project governance is in place and design authority validation
• Technical dependency oversight and escalation to project managers and architecture governance
• Champion reuseable designs and ensures proper integration or new and retirement of Legacy solutions
• Ensure design documents reflect what was built as part of hand over to support
• Ensure that data and information architecture is developed and maintained.
• Coordinate a mix of internal and external technical resources with the right mix of skills and experience to achieve successful designs. Share knowledge to support and application teams
The Solution Architect operates in a delivery phase of project, taking conceptual architectures from the Enterprise Architect and produces logical designs to be built, making sure the strategy is followed.
• Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across supplier and customer organisations, and proactively seek out opportunities for digital transformation.
• Maintains standards and principles as part of the architectural governance framework
• Partners in business processes and technology solutions, highlighting opportunities to improve business performance
• Proactively proposes value recommendation to business, facilitates value creation
• Estimates technology costs for solution options and provides guidance on optioneering
• Coordinate multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
• Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation.
• Be responsible for adhering to governance frameworks, solving complex and high-risk issues or delivering architecture designs.
• Identify existing patterns for reuse, new patterns to add to the approved design framework and where novel, bespoke designs are appropriate.
• Ensure cyber security and other policies are followed.
• Delivering designs that are traceable and meet the project requirements.
Essential
• Experience of designing and independently assuring the completeness of solutions to meet principles, policies and guidelines.
• Have an experienced understanding of Architecture frameworks (eg GDS, TOGAF, NIST Cyber Security Framework, ISF Standard, SABSA) .
• Industry experience with an understanding of both IT and OT requirements and solutions, and the relevant UK standards and regulations.
• Security legislation and regulatory frameworks (eg DPA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, UK Gov Good Practice Guides).
• Detailed awareness of security methodologies and industry standards (eg ISO27001, NIST, SANS).
Desirable
• Sector knowledge- Utilities, Construction, Rail, Défense
• TOGAF
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
• Microsoft Azure Advance
• CISSP certified, or equivalent certification, NIST Cyber Security Framework, ISF Standard),
• GIAC or CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent)
Equal opportunities
We are an agency that believes in equal opportunities and as such we encourage applicants from all backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or any other characteristic.