Technical Solution Architect

We are seeking experienced Technical Solution Architecture specialists to join our engineering discipline. As a Technical Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal role in our delivery teams by shaping solutions to meet clients' needs, aligning with their technology strategies, and championing technical best practices.

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK's most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, cleaner, and healthier place.

You'll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

At a certified Great Place to Work, you'll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

About Us

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen's Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

A Technical Solution Architect oversees the design, documentation, and implementation of software solutions (either bespoke or commercial off-the-shelf) to solve business problems and meet user needs.

This includes:

1. Working with clients and colleagues to design robust software architectures capable of meeting both functional and non-functional requirements.
2. Achieving consensus on potential solution designs, technology choices, and the approach to delivery (including transitional approaches if required) with client technical and business stakeholders.
3. Providing subject matter expertise on solution architecture concepts to both Informed and client teams.
4. Assuring the implementation of a solution across several increments remains aligned with the originally envisaged architecture and desired client outcomes.
5. Representing your team and your client in technical governance forums (e.g. Technical/ Design Authorities).
6. Influencing company-wide architecture best practices, standards, tools, and artefacts, and leading efforts to drive adoption across the company.
7. Being an active member of the Engineering discipline, promoting the professional development of others, building new capability, and sharing best practice.
8. Supporting the ongoing growth of Informed's Engineering capability by helping to recruit technical staff and contributing to InformedACADEMYTM.
9. Getting involved in events and industry forums, staying up to date with the latest technology.

Requirements

As a Technical Solution Architect at Informed, you will have:

1. Experience and understanding of architecture patterns and concepts for enterprise-scale solutions (e.g., accounting for Integration, Security, Scalability considerations).
2. Experience collaborating with client technical stakeholders to define and agree solution architectures capable of meeting business and user needs.
3. An unbiased and independent perspective on technology stacks used to deliver a particular solution.
4. A proven track record in leading collaborative design and decision-making with clients.
5. Intimate knowledge of architecting modern, innovative digital services.
6. Demonstrated capability working with cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.
7. Background in Agile delivery environments, delivering software solutions in controlled increments (e.g., following Scrum, Agile Delivery phases, GDS Service Manual, etc.) and collaborating with team members from other disciplines (User Research, Business Analysis, Engineering, Testing etc.).
8. Understanding of modern programming languages, distributed system architectures (e.g., microservices), cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines.

Desirable skills and experience

1. Skilled in working with architectures that involve legacy systems integration and/or modernisation.
2. Experience developing transitional architecture roadmaps for proposed solutions.
3. Capability designing and implementing architectures that operationalise data science and Machine Learning components.
4. Expertise in evaluating existing solutions using structured assessment frameworks (e.g., AWS Well Architected Framework) to proactively identify improvements.
5. Hands-on knowledge of designing and implementing software architectures capable of handling sensitive data (e.g., Personally Identifiable Information or payment information).
6. Commercial awareness with ability to balance trade-offs where necessary to ensure a successful delivery.
7. Ability to deliver as part of multiple projects, concurrently across multiple teams.
8. Domain-relevant professional accreditations/certifications at an advanced level.
9. Awareness of the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice.

Personal Qualities

1. You use your experience to lead, coach and mentor more junior team members.
2. You should excel at conveying complex technical concepts in a non-technical manner and facilitate trusted working relationships with stakeholders.
3. You should have the ability to work collaboratively, proactively and be flexible in responding to changing needs and priorities.
4. Excellent work planning capabilities and time management skills.
5. Ability to balance conflicting deadlines and priorities.
6. A meticulous attention to detail.
7. Punctuality, reliability, and a clear commitment to your role.

Other Information

Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

1. InformedACADEMY – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
2. Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
3. Hybrid working*
4. Private Health Care Cover*
5. Generous life assurance cover*
6. Gym Membership*
7. Monthly office lunch
8. Onsite massage sessions
9. 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
10. Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
11. Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
12. Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
13. Company Pension Contribution
14. Profit Share Scheme
15. Payment of professional subscriptions
16. Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We're a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.