Solutions Architect

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Company Description

Our client's architecture practice is a fast-growing community of industry-leading experts. The practice covers all aspects of architecture for large-scale technology estates, providing architecture and solutions for complex transformation, cloud migration, technology consolidation and modernisation, M&A and enterprise architecture definition and management.

They deliver advisory, technology vision and strategy, technology roadmaps, technology due diligence, enterprise architecture and architecture governance using their proven framework and processes.

Job Description

• Due to the nature of the client engagements, every employee needs to be able to achieve Security Clearance.
• This means that you need to have the right to take up employment within the UK, do not have or require any visa to work, and have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years without any gap(s) totalling more than 6 months.
• As an employer they believe in facilitating a flexible work pattern whilst taking into consideration operational requirements, and client and individual needs. They are proud of their hybrid work pattern that typically sees employees in the office for a minimum of 2 days per week.
• You should be able to easily commute to their London office. For some roles/projects, travel to the client's offices will be required and the frequency is often determined by the client.
• Diversity, equity and inclusion are integral to the success of this company. They welcome applicants with different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds, and are proud to have an organisational culture where employees can bring their authentic selves to work.

The key responsibilities of the role are summarised below:

• Recognise that architecture descriptions are sliced into high-level views to address the separate concerns of different stakeholders
• Recognise the phases of an architecture process framework that helps architects to describe a baseline architecture, a target architecture and the transformation between them
• Recognise ways to describe the structure and behaviour of applications used in a business, with a focus on how they interact with each other and with business users or actors
• Have an understanding of Microservices and Serverless architectures. Understand the differences between HTTP, SOAP, TCP, etc. Recognise a selection of common techniques used in design for NFRs
• Be able to describe the structure and behaviour of the technology platform that underpins user applications and understand on-premise, Cloud hosting and end-user computing
• Plan architecture migration, alongside managers using standard management planning processes.
• Plan architecture migration, alongside managers using standard management planning processes
• Use decision logs, risk register, dependency management, etc. to govern the implementation of an architecture Prepare and present architecture decisions to internal or client forums.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will have:

• Knowledge of open source, open standards and cloud technologies
• An understanding of architectural concepts, methodologies and approaches
• Working knowledge of design patterns and modelling notations such as Archimate, UML and BPMN
• Quality Assurance skills to assess the quality and completeness of deliverables
• Knowledge and demonstrable experience in both traditional and agile delivery methods