Principal Solutions Architect with Salesforce in Ashford, Devon

It's something we've been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world's first international scheduled air service between London and Paris.

So, whether you are a reassuring voice on the end of a phone, a smile at the door, under a wing keeping the turbines spinning or landing us gently in far-flung places, a job at British Airways is yours to make.

We know great things can happen when you're inspired to think big and bring your ambition to work every day, which is why, at British Airways the sky is never the limit.

Principal Solutions Architect Guide the solution architecture for the Head of Solution Architecture across their area, effectively influencing stakeholders to help define and deliver the future state adhering to policies, standards, and roadmaps.

During the implementation phase, ensures any deviations from the agreed solution are managed with the project to deliver a successful outcome.

Understands and manages the technical quality of the solutions in their area, ensuring short term technical debts are managed, and paydown plans are developed to ensure long term health of solutions is assured.

Identification and execution of continual improvement opportunities, ensuring the best outcomes for BA, driving optimal solutions through the implementation of the architecture roadmaps.

Management of key supplier relationships, ensuring the quality of supplier deliverables meets BA Digital standards and fit with strategic business requirements on a continuing basis.

Identify opportunities to work across BA Digital to underpin the successful delivery of major initiatives.

Collaborate with Architects in their immediate and wider areas to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and aligned with business and technical architectures and strategic direction.

Ensure all solution architecture activity across their area is aligned with policies and standards and roadmaps with a focus on consistency and efficiency of approach ensuring a balance between quality, cost and timescales.

Recognise opportunities for business or IT change, communicates them persuasively to appropriate stakeholders with support from Lead Enterprise Architect.

Lead, coach, mentor and manage solution architects within their domain to enable their development and guide their performance.

Communicate and negotiate with all relevant stakeholders (both business and IT) to ensure a balance of usability and fit with the solution architecture with support from the Lead Solution Architect.

Ensure sufficient quality review points are built into initiatives, that all interdependencies have been considered and an appropriate level of architectural artefacts produced.

Lead architectural reviews across their area to promote consistency, quality, and learning.

Support strategic supplier relationships where third-party work or packages involve significant architectural decisions.

Participate proactively in solution and program Agile Ceremonies including system and program increment demos, and input into solution and program backlogs and management of capture of and prioritisation of capabilities and enablers e. g., become the voice of quality in estimation and backlog refinement sessions, collaborating with the team to identify and implement improvements via sprint retrospectives.

Proactively share best practices, patterns, and templates for Solution Architectures with the wider solution architecture community Develop, curate, and select appropriate learning and development plans for stakeholders, team members and external partners to ensure alignment on capability needs.

Embracing and managing both business and IT change as necessary to help shape future direction.

Proven record of accomplishment of leading complex solution architectures working across the architecture domains (business, data, applications, and technology) with experience of several business domains and/or technology areas.

Broad solution architecture experience including application development, enterprise integration, service definition and Service-Level Agreements, IT infrastructure and migration planning.

Experience of resolving complex solution architecture challenges and managing both business and IT change to help shape future directions.

Demonstrable awareness of worldwide architecture and technology trends and practice, championing their use to deliver business benefit.

It's one of the reasons our rewards go far beyond a competitive salary.

From the day you join us, you'll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights.

You'll also receive up to 30 discounted 'Hotline' airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.

We encourage all those who work for us to consider opportunities right across our business to help you develop and progress.

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