Description
Role: Solutions Architect
Location: Newcastle
IR35: Inside
Rate: £600/day (umbrella)
Duration: 6 months
CV Deadline: 7th May
Responsibilities:
- Lead, deliver and support technical design of a product or part of a shared platform to meet user needs and business objectives.
- Lead on ensuring high quality of technical design, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles and roadmaps
- Build relationships and work collaboratively with Digital professions in agile delivery teams to create VFM solution designs that meet user needs
- Support development of the Architecture practice by sharing best practice and reference architectures to ensure consistency and coherence of architecture design.
- Engage with Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Lead Solution Architects and engineering teams to implement the solutions according to agreed and approved architecture designs.
- Deliver product solutions and be accountable for product architecture in alignment with engineering.
- Identify, capture, share and iterate architecture patterns to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture.
- Implement architecture patterns creating reference architectures as real-world working examples of successful architecture design.
- Create solution options and recommendations - during project discovery and inception phases to drive decision making on best solution design.
- Make technology choices for products in conjunction with the enterprise architecture blueprint, contributing to the update of technology policies where appropriate.
- Contribute to building an inclusive digital culture within the department.
Experience:
Experience of the following is essential:
- Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios
- Software architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Application and integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Information and data architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Cloud and infrastructure architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Experience in delivering large scale, multi-million pound solutions building on top of industry standard COTS packages.
Technical Specialisms:
Architecture & Design Methods
Desirable skills to support Technical Breadth and Systems Integration capabilities - Level 3
- ArchiMate and UML architecture/design and modelling techniques, tools and standards - Level 3
- Agile/DevOps delivery methodologies and best practice - Level 3
- Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) delivery methodologies, tools and best practice - level 3
- Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice - level 3
- WebServices, SOA, BPEL and ESB architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice -Level 3
- WebServices, SOA, BPEL and ESB architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice - Level 3
Core Technology Knowledge
- Software architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice -Level 2
- Application and integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice - Level 2
- Software architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice - Level 2
- Information and data architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice - Level 2
- Cloud and infrastructure architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice - Level 2
Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture
- Amazon Web Service (AWS) technologies, cloud hosting and networking design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3
- Microsoft Azure technologies, cloud hosting and networking design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Serverless cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice - Level 3
Security Architecture
- Security threat trends, analysis and protection technologies, tools and best practice
- Includes: software exploits/SQL injection/cross-site Scripting/remote file inclusion/stolen credentials/'watering hole' attacks/DDOS/malware/phishing/ransomware - Level 3
- Secure communication and encryption/cryptographic technologies, tools and best practice
- Includes: IPSec/Kerberos/TLS/SSL - Level 3
- Identification, authentication and Single Sign-On(SSO) technologies, tools and best practice
- Includes: OpenID/Oauth 2.0/OIDC/XACML/OATH reference architecture/Kerberos/SAML/WS-Security/RACF - Level 3
- Cybersecurity technologies, tools and best practice - Level 3
Key
Level 0 - No knowledge and experience.
Level 1 - Awareness: Has knowledge of the capability and an appreciation of how it's applied in the environment
Level 2 - Working: Applies knowledge and experience of the capability, including tools and techniques, adopting those most appropriate for the environment.
Level 3 - Practitioner: Shares knowledge and experience of the capability with others including tools and techniques, defining those most appropriate for the environment.
Level 4 - Expert: Expert has knowledge and experience in application of this capacity, is a recognised specialist and advisor in this capability including user needs, generation of ideas, methods, tools and leading or guiding others in best practice use.
To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources.