Solutions Architect

Role: Solutions Architect - M365

Location: Hybrid - Home based + occasional travel to Oxfordshire

Salary: £71K + a comprehensive range of Employee Benefits, (17.5% pension, 30 days holiday etc.)

Key Skills: Solution Architect, TDA EUC, M365, MS Entra (Secure Identities and Access), HLD, LLD, Technology Road mapping, Azure, Windows 10, MEM/Intune, Azure connectivity and on-prem virtualisation etc. Cloud and on-prem solutions experience.

Why Apply: This is a key role joining a small Architecture team delivering architectural vision and solutions in a high-profile setting.

The Solutions Architect will join a technology driven Public Sector organisation where they can share their passion for delivering well-architected designs to ensure cost efficiency, security, scalability and reliability.

The role in summary:

• Transform requirements and proposals into solution designs
• Provide HLD and LLD for various stakeholders
• Ensure alignment of designs to enterprise architectural vision.
• Provide architectural design guidance
• Create and maintain technical artefacts
• Lead design authority for some projects, creating high quality documentation including concept high level and/or low level designs
• Engage with suppliers and project teams to ensure delivery in line with agreed designs and outcomes

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Essential:

• 3+ years in architecture design and management, (HLD and LLD)
• EUC / M365 technical expertise with proven experience delivering M365 architecture
• Experience in informal and formal design methodology, (design diagrams, narrative and description)
• Experience taking holistic view across different technical concepts, (i.e.. System, Service, Performance, Support, Flow analysis, Security)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, confident communicating with Stakeholders and strong decision maker.
• Familiarity with Prince2/Agile and ITIL concepts
• Appreciation of formal design methodologies, (Z, CSP, Discrete Mathematics etc.). Knowledge of TOGAF / Zachman or equivalent - desirable.

** You will need to be able to demonstrate that you have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years in order to meet the security vetting required for this role **