Solution Architect in Sheffield

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Responsibilities

• Working with the various business and functional stakeholders to understand their business strategy and target operating model to produce corresponding architecture roadmaps.
• Delivering Engineering Designs and Solution Architecture to meet business requirements, from logical architecture through to physical infrastructure architecture.
• Ensuring clear alignment between the Protective Security Book of Work and the functional and architecture roadmaps.
• Participating in Architectural Governance processes to ensure that proposed solution designs are strategically aligned to the architecture roadmaps and the Group’s Future State Architecture.
• Representing PS in the PGC & GCOO Technologies Technical Design Authority for Corporate Services.
• Ensuring proposed solutions use group approved technology and adhere to approved technology and infrastructure design patterns.
• Ensuring that deployed system solutions, both vendor supplied and in-house developments, are appropriately hosted (internally, externally, cloud, PaaS, SaaS) including the corresponding governance and relevant approval processes.
• Gaining insight into industry developments and trends and identifying opportunities for innovation and leveraging new technology.

Qualifications

• In-depth technical, functional, and non‑functional knowledge of networking, IoT/Edge technologies, Protective Security technologies and solutions (EACS, SVS, Biometrics, Video analytics), server infrastructure and virtualization, cloud infrastructure (particularly Azure), middleware, and databases.
• Excellent understanding of the concept of Enterprise Architecture and its relationship to business strategy and target operating models, and how to relate this to an architecture roadmap and a solid understanding of general architectural concepts, principles, governance, and best practices.
• Experience with technologies: AWS, Google GCP, Azure, MuleSoft.
• Strong background of system engineering, able to compare and contrast different solutions to meet a business requirement. Able to provide technical thought leadership in the evaluation of new technologies to meet business requirements and influence key stakeholders leading to adoption.

Job Details

• Location: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid working)
• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Management
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting, IT System Training and Support, Technology, Information and Media