Solution Architect

 

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Job reference 321960
Solution Architect
Competitive salary plus car allowance, healthcare 18% annual bonus potential,  25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with serve and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time 
Royal Mail Farringdon

London x3 days a week

 

Extra Benefits

•    Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
•    Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
•    Supportive and generous company sick pay
•    Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees

 

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THE JOB

The role of the Solutions Architect is to ensure that the solutions being designed and developed provide a consensus based solution that is scalable, adaptable and in synchronisation with changing business needs. 
This role is responsible for outlining solution architecture descriptions, then monitoring and governing the architecture's implementation. 
The role also has responsibility for ensuring solutions are designed and implemented in alignment with RMG Architecture. They should make 
efficient and effective use of technology and match the current and foreseeable requirements of RMG.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Develop the project blueprint received from Transformation Architects into solution designs as business needs are clarified, escalating and agreeing where we need to deviate from the original 
• blueprint.
• Preparation of the Solution Architect design and ensuring it adheres to requirements, design principles and target vision for the overall 
• solution.
• Develop technology specifications and leverage existing technologies to ensure new technology solutions are designed for optimal Business use.
• Applying architectural and engineering concepts to design solutions that meet business requirements, considering scalability, maintainability, security, reliability, flexibility, availability and manageability.
• Ensures process, application, data and technology architecture are aligned.
• Identify the technologies to employ and take responsibility for the assurance and governance of supplier solutions.
• Partner with business analysis to provide technical oversight to ensure IT solutions meet end user needs.
• Collaborate with development teams on all of the above, designing and building the solution iteratively in sprint cycles.
• Educate stakeholders in Agile ways of working and the benefits of iterative software delivery.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• Contemporary knowledge of a wide range of information.
• Technologies, with experience of their integration and configuration.
• Knowledge of and experience with systems integration methods and technologies. 
• Ability to give advice and guidance on approach to design of systems architectures.
• Ability to communicate complex technical designs to business stakeholders and non-technical audiences.

EXPERIENCE

• At least 2 years’ experience of technical architecture roles across all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Experience of contributing to the technical architecture design principles and planning, design and implementation of complex 
• systems architectures.
• Knowledge of enterprise-wide systems architectures.
• Practical experience of planning, designing and implementing applications and data in a complex distributed environment.
• Practical experience of service, application, data and infrastructure architecture.

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. 

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you. 

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve. 

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

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Closing Date: . Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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