Solution Architect

Role Title: Solution Architect

• Inside Ir35 through an umbrella.
• No sponsorship

About The Role: We are looking to offer a Solution Architect the exciting opportunity to join our dynamic and expanding Group IT Function Team based in either Stevenage or Newcastle - office based once a week.A fast-paced environment and our business is constantly growing and evolving - Utilities/Construction led.Who you are? The purpose of the IT Solution Architect is to define and deliver innovative, cost-effective, and efficient solutions.Reporting into the Solution Architect Manager as part of the wider Enterprise Architecture function, be responsible for the design, delivery, and deployment of IT solutions.Analyse technical issues, business problems and requirements, develop tailored designs, and help govern the solution implementation throughout delivery. Solutions are fit for purpose, cost effective and aligned with strategic goals and principles. As a member of the team, you will be expected to gain a comprehensive understanding of the As-Is IT landscape across the Group while contributing to the future IT strategy and vision.As a Solution Architect, you'll get the opportunity to:

• Lead the design and implementation of solutions to meet agreed business requirements, as encapsulated within a change initiative.
• Ensure the most effective use of the available technologies and platforms from the estate.
• Represent technical change through corporate governance processes.
• Communicate the risks, dependencies, scope, and scale of solutions such that they are fully understood by relevant decision-making bodies.
• Advise on the viability of technical solutions, considering other programmes of work and the complexities inherent in it.
• Support Project Managers in delivery of projects, acting as a single point of contact for solution architecture aspects.
• Contribute to the coordination of third parties, such as vendors and outsourced partners, to ensure the delivery of solutions across domains and technologies remains aligned.
• Develop and maintain a level of technical expertise, knowledge of current best practice and industry trends.
• Contribute to the overall IT strategy and proactively identifying continuous improvement opportunities using industry best practice and emerging technologies.
• Manage communication up to MD level across business and technical areas both internally and with partners and vendors. To ensure technical ideas and solutions are effectively translated.
• Provide key stake holders information, recommendations, and proposals to allow decisions to be made.

Core Responsibilities:

• Translate the business requirements into an architectural specification, defining an effective architecture that will be the blueprint for the solution being created.
• Ensure the development and delivery of high quality, flexible, scalable, cost-effective solutions through high quality solution architecture for projects and programmes in line with the enterprise architecture.
• Ensure that architecture principles, policies and standards are met and to develop appropriate standards. Provide feedback to Domain and Enterprise Architects to ensure that the enterprise architecture is fit for purpose.
• Participate in the Technical Governance process, raising exceptions, obtaining waivers as required, & ensuring compliance with standards, blueprints, & principles.
• Responsible to produce consistent estimation of project delivery effort.
• Responsible for working with key stakeholders to assess impact of technical change on business processes and operations.
• Work with Enterprise and Domain Architects to create and maintain future state architecture.
• Responsible to produce solution architecture for business requirements.
• Responsible to produce estimates for solution architecture options.
• Responsible to produce Architecture Specification Documents.
• Responsible for specifying architecture to maximise reuse.

What you'll bring?

• Ability to communicate complex issues in a simple and concise manner.
• Ability to produce high quality technical documentation and design specifications.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of technologies (e.g. Azure, Salesforce, Oracle, MSSQL, Fabric)
• Significant experience of integration, consolidation, and transit of data within systems.
• Analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work well with teams at all levels including senior management, stakeholders, analysts, developers, third party vendors and customers.
• Ability support and mentor colleagues and act as a role model to others within the IT function.
• Minimum 8 years of experience as a Solution Architect in positions with comparable complexity.
• Experience of different IT delivery approaches (waterfall, agile, etc.) and software development lifecycles.
• Strong Application Architecture background demonstrated through a proven track record of leading, influencing and creating architecture standards incl. solution, data and interfaces.
• Oracle Fusion experience desirable.
• Salesforce experiences highly desirable - specifically Field Services.
• Microsoft Azure experience desirable plus Fabric.
• University Degree preferably in a business or technical subject or any comparable education.
• Certification within a framework (i.e. TOGAF / Zachman) desirable.

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Morgan Philips Group is a global talent solutions business that disrupts conventional thinking in executive search, recruitment and talent consulting. We operate in over 18 markets in Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the Middle East & Africa. We understand that the future is digital and social, so we embrace the latest technology, including video ads and CVs, as well as social recruiting. Our innovative services are tailored to the new world of work yet we do not lose sight of the fact that employees be they existing and potential are ultimately human beings.

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