Description
We are seeking on behalf of our global client a number of Security Cleared (SC) Solutions Architects who will be leveraged across both BAU (Evergreen) and Transformation. The successful candidates will need to be able to support both High-Level Design work and Low-Level Design work required by both BAU (Evergreen) and Transformation workstream.
Role Description:
Solution Architects required to join established Architecture Team working closely with customers, external subcontractors, project management and technical teams.
5+ years of Solution/Technical Architect experience, working with multiple technologies as part of an enterprise architecture - complex, large scale, business-critical.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in the provision of high level solution architecture
- Generate conceptual, logical and physical architecture documents for a project/program
- Contribute to estimation and risk assessments
- Provide technical leadership and oversight during change proposal assessment
- Contribute to short time-frame change impact assessments, feasibility studies & costed IT proposals and be comfortable with producing architecture models and designs
- Negotiate with key stakeholders including prioritisation of projects and resources
- Provide technical design assurance for new projects, operational change and enhancements
- Identifying and resolving impacts of changes to the technical architecture
- Be a point of reference and authority for Solution and Technical Architecture on a program/project
- Assist in establishment of the Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology.
- Report to Enterprise Architects within the Architect practise
Essential Skills:
- 5+ years of Solution/Technical Architect experience
- Exposure to business critical, high availability design and deployment
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to write clear documentation
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to all stakeholders
- SC clearance
Desirable Skills:
- Certification in TOGAF, ITIL, or IT4IT
- Skilled or familiar with Archimate or UML
- Experience of one or more of the following: Virtualization (VMware and OVM), Windows environment, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware components
- Experience of major transformation programmes with knowledge of migration to cloud services
- Experience of OCI or similar cloud services delivery
Due to the nature of the role, the successful candidate will have a valid UK Security Clearance prior to start.