Solutions Architect (London)

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Affinity is the new, high-growth specialist consulting company in Reply, dedicated to driving Next Gen Architecture, Data Driven Enablement, and Future Transformations. We distinguish ourselves by fostering robust and trusted relationships with our clients, ensuring the successful delivery of their desired outcomes through our proactive and insightful approach

Role Overview

As a Solution Architect working with Financial Services clients, youll play a key role in delivering architecture-led solutions (Cloud, Hybrid, or On-Premise), and covering the spectrum of architecture domains to our clients. You will facilitate the alignment of goals and objectives with decisions regarding all layers of the solutions, Business, Information, Application and Technology.

You will be developing solution designs using a repeatable approach, to deliver the desired business outcome. You will be working on own or part of a team delivering a contractual solution, providing expert client-side consultancy, mentoring, design authority, project delivery or acting as a trusted advisor and / or subject matter expert to clients and internal teams alike.

Responsibilities

• Deliver class leading IT Enterprise / Solution Architecture & high quality consulting within Financial Services.
• Realise business outcomes by leveraging architecture & technology.
• Work with both the business and IT to ensure that the correct solutions are in place to support the needs of our clients.
• Assist clients in understanding the benefits of a properly architected IT solution and the approaches and methods involved.
• Taking responsibility for the solution architecture definition and realisation through the project delivery lifecycle.
• Taking end to end responsibility for the architecture definition and realisation through the project delivery lifecycle.

Skills

• Ownership and creation of Solution Architectures including all associated artefacts, including High level Designs, Solution Options, Impact Assessments and Readiness Reviews to deliver a holistic solution domain.
• Excellent and proven design capabilities, covering Conceptual, Logical & physical architectures;
• Confidence to present solutions and influence stakeholders within Financial Services
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle, along with an appreciation of quality assurance, continuous integration/delivery, and the benefits of automation; experience and understanding of Agile practices and the impact on solution design and delivery.
• Preferably, Cloud Enabled, understanding key cloud technologies, ideally AWS or Azure, and concepts of SaaS.
• Preferably, understanding of Data Architecture and Data Modelling and able to articulate the key impacts across this domain.
• Strong systems analysis skills which translate into solution architecture and holistic designs

Reply is an Equal Opportunities Employer and committed to embracing diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, identity, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status or parental status or any other characteristic protected by the Law.

Reply is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, please let us know of any Reasonable Adjustments you may need.

• Seniority level
  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type
  Full-time

• Job function
  Consulting, Information Technology, and Finance
• Industries
  IT Services and IT Consulting, Business Consulting and Services, and Financial Services

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