Principal Solutions Architect

Principal Solution Architect

Overview:

This position requires active DV Clearance due to the nature of the project.

What this person will be doing:

• Empowering customers to overcome technical challenges while collaboratively crafting innovative solutions and shaping strategic technical vision and roadmaps.

• Setting the technical standards for solution development within the team and ensuring that all solutions delivered meet client needs. Ensuring the team always delivers quality solutions.

• Facilitating “Innovation Day” type workshops to accelerate Discovery and Alpha activities. Understanding stakeholder problems (both explicit and implicit) and offering potential solutions.

• Working with stakeholders on bid activities.

• Recruiting and inspiring technical staff, line managing the Solution Architect contingent, and providing necessary advice and support to help them realize their potential.

• Influencing growth and delivery strategies, sitting within the Design Authority structure to ensure strategies are executed effectively.

Requirements:

• A driven, passionate, senior leader with the people skills to inspire confidence among clients and colleagues, fostering collaborative working practices in a complex stakeholder environment.

• Solid technical skills, sufficient to be credible when developing concept solutions and estimating the effort required for implementation.

• Integrity to do the right thing by stakeholders, challenging groupthink or substandard solutions when necessary.

• Acting as the technical face of the team, setting and enforcing technical standards via the Design Authority, ensuring quality and security are embedded into all products.

• Inspiring, motivating, and supporting the team by embodying a can-do attitude, always looking for ways to add value and improve user experiences.

• Broad understanding of technology platforms, particularly on-premise Kubernetes implementations and AWS architectural components, along with experience implementing development frameworks.

• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices, especially for cloud-hosted solutions.

• Estimating technical costs and development effort to support budgeting and bid activities.

• Credibility to act as a point of escalation and advocate for the technical functions within the team, with the necessary experience, tact, and diplomacy to effectively line manage Solution Architects.

• Strong presentation skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas to senior stakeholders.

• Workshop facilitation skills to bring together diverse stakeholders and develop credible concepts.

• Experience overseeing the containerization of third-party applications, migration from on-prem to cloud services (AWS predominantly), and managing software development teams.

Security Clearance: Due to the nature of projects, employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to Government customers. As a result, only candidates with the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and who have lived in the UK for the last 5+ years continuously can be considered.

Benefits:

• 25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays

• BUPA medical insurance

• Workplace Pension (5% employer contribution)

• Group Life Assurance

• Cycle-to-work scheme

• 5 days per year for approved training

• Work-from-home equipment allowance

• Buy/Sell holiday scheme

• 2 paid volunteering days per year

Other benefits:

• Flexible working

• Work on exciting projects that make a difference

• Empowerment to make decisions

• Encouraged to fail fast and learn quickly

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