Principal Architect

Contract Type

Permanent

Salary Package

£ , – £, plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and paid-for volunteering days a year

Hours

am – pm, Monday – Friday Interview Process : -stage process

Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package : solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life‑long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe\’s largest privately‑owned IT Company

Role purpose

The Principal Architect Technical, works with SCC’s clients to develop their strategic goals, providing strategy, architecture and governance services using best practice approaches. Working closely with Sales colleagues to drive Strategic Consultancy opportunities and deliver engagements across all verticals. The Principal Architect Technical, works within the SCC Consultancy Team with the purpose to ensure that we help our customers make the correct decisions relating to IT and business in the most efficient, risk‑managed way. This involves development of our customers’ architecture and IT services in partnership, to ensure that business strategy, objectives and benefits are met and that future business roadmaps can be achieved through effective IT services and business change. Security clearance or the willingness to apply will be required for this role.

Key responsibilities

• Engage directly with customers, often on speculative / pre‑RFP requirements, to understand their business challenges and translate these into technology requirements.
• Advise customers on technology choices and options.
• Acting as a single point of contact for consultative presales engagements. And coordinating Business Unit presales where required.
• Developing customer proposals, statements of work, supporting cost models and defining proof of concept engagements where appropriate.
• Participate in bid responses working as part of a bid team.
• Deliver Consultancy engagements across the consultancy stack providing and producing consultancy recommendations – including but not limited to – strategies, roadmaps, business cases, as‑is / to‑be assessments, and high‑level architecture blueprints.
• Work closely with colleagues in the delivery teams to ensure presales opportunities are handed over appropriately and with clarity in relation to the proposed solution, implementation approach, and customer engagement.
• Development of SCC’s Consultancy propositions and associated collateral.
• Drive best practice, standards, and principles to assist SCC clients with achieving their transformation and maturity goal.
• Ensure that skills and knowledge are developed and kept up to date with market trends customer demands, and BU standard solutions.

Skills and experience

• Proven experience of working in a professional services architecture role with a proportion of that time spent in a presales / client consulting capacity at a senior level.
• Experience of presenting technical solutions to both technology focused and non‑technology focused personnel up to and including board level.
• Breadth of knowledge across end‑to‑end business operating models and processes. Able to demonstrate expertise in at least one industry sector.
• Breadth of knowledge across IT services and technology domains.
• Breadth of knowledge across technology best practice and governance. Able to demonstrate across programme and project management, delivery, architecture, and service management.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. Not scared to pick up the phone and have a conversation.

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