Solutions Architect (SC Cleared)

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with colleagues across other disciplines to ensure consideration of architecture at all stages of the delivery lifecycle and to ensure input into architecture processes.
• Guide client organisations to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk.
• Lead the delivery of moderately complex application modernisation and migration initiatives for legacy services.
• Define and manage scoping, requirements definition (functional & non-functional) and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium/large size and/or high complexity.
• Design and communicate high-level artefacts to guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Identify and evaluate alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability. Determine and document architecturally significant decisions.
• Lead the solution definition and delivery for a wide range of projects and programmes.
• Model, simulate or prototype the behaviour of proposed high complexity system components.
• Produce design specifications to form the basis for the construction of complex systems. Review, verify and contribute to the designs of other team members.
• Translate business and user needs into the design of solution architectures for external clients and internal delivery teams.
• Use appropriate architectural modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Champion the importance and value of system design principles and the selection of appropriate systems design life cycle models.
• Contribute to architectural principles, policies and standards.
• Ensure adherence to applicable standards (corporate, industry, national and international).
• Provide advice, leadership and mentoring for teams, defining standards and best practices.
• Act as pre-sales architect for bids and proposals, assisting with estimation and planning.
• Participate in business development providing architectural input and meeting with clients to secure new business.
• Work as part of a team to design proof of concepts and deliver client demonstrations.
• Work as part of a team to develop architectures for industry focused sales propositions.
• Identify new and emerging industry trends, software, technologies, products, services, methods and techniques and assess their relevance and potential value for solutions, improvements in cost/performance or sustainability.
• Mentor junior team members, providing feedback and support to career development.
• Participate in development of internal architecture capability, including contributing to identification and definition of best practices, standards and ways of working.
• Promote emerging technology awareness among staff and business management.
• Support identification of training needs across internal delivery teams.
• Actively maintain knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Consult and support collaboration across client business.
• Participate in and can lead meetings with stakeholders.

Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks:

• End-to-end experience of Secure Software Development Lifecycle processes and methodologies.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for handling personal data, e.g., GDPR.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for solution security, e.g., OWASP, NCSC cloud security principles.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice within one or more specialist architecture domains.
• Knowledge and experience of delivering complex technology services across one or more specialist technology and/or business domains.
• Strong understanding and practical experience of leading multi-discipline teams to deliver complex technology services.
• Understand and communicate industry developments, and the role and impact of technology.