Solution Architect
- Working with the various business and functional stakeholders to understand their business strategy and target operating model to produce corresponding architecture roadmaps.
- Delivering Engineering Designs and Solution Architecture to meet business requirements, from logical architecture through to physical infrastructure architecture.
- Ensuring clear alignment between the Protective Security Book of Work and the functional and architecture roadmaps
- Participating in Architectural Governance processes to ensure that proposed solution designs are strategically aligned to the architecture roadmaps and the Group's Future State Architecture
- Representing PS in the PGC & GCOO Technologies Technical Design Authority for Corporate Services.
- Ensuring proposed solutions use group approved technology and adhere to approved technology and infrastructure design patterns.
- Ensuring that deployed system solutions, both vendors supplied, and in-house developments are appropriately hosted (Internally, Externally, Cloud, PaaS, SaaS) including the corresponding governance and relevant approval processes.
- Gaining insight into industry developments and trends and identifying opportunities for innovation and leveraging new technology
- In-depth technical, functional, and non-functional knowledge of:
- - Networking
- - IoT / Edge technologies
- - Protective Security technologies and solutions (EACS, SVS, Biometrics, Video analytics)
- - Server infrastructure and virtualization
- - Cloud infrastructure (particularly Azure)
- - Middleware
- - Databases
- Excellent understanding of the concept of Enterprise Architecture and its relationship to business strategy and target operating models, and how to relate this to an architecture roadmap and a solid understanding of general architectural concepts, principles, governance, and best practices.
- Experience of technologies: AWS, Google GCP, Azure, MuleSoft
- Strong background of system engineering, able to compare and contrast different solutions to meet a business requirement. Able to provide technical thought leadership in the evaluation of new technologies to meet business requirements and influence key stakeholders leading to adoption.
- Proven vendor management experience
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
This role is based in Sheffield and offers hybrid working.