Student Solutions Designer

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom King's College London Full time

Job id: 084089. Salary: £51,974 to £61,021 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 07 February 2024. Closing date: 03 March 2024.

Business unit: IT. Department: Education & Research Solutions.

Location: Guys' Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.

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Job description

King’s College London is looking for a Student Solutions Designer to help us in the successful solution design, development and delivery of the university’s Student Solutions supporting the University 2029 Vision and linked Education strategy, ensuring they meet the business needs, are delivered to the agreed standard and fit with architectural requirements.

You will then ensure that there is Solutions Design capability for each product that you’re assigned to within the Education & Students domain and their Service Product Strategy Groups (SPSG’s), incorporating the Service Product Strategies within those groups, and referencing to the related IT Service Catalogue entries.

There will also be full participation in horizontal teams from the IT Directorate, working closely with the Student Product Owners, along with other Solutions Designers, the Portfolio and Services teams.

The role will report to the Student Solutions Manager.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent

Key responsibilities

To provide IT Solutions Designs for assigned student products

To develop the technical vision for a Solution, focused on ‘building the thing’ right

To design end to end IT solutions that meet customer needs encompassing infrastructure, hardware and software

To develop and acquire deep E&S domain knowledge

To provide Design and Solution Architecture, Subject Matter Expertise, along with Service Improvement delivery (including the design artifacts to ensure the solution to meet the business needs, delivered to the agreed standard and fit with architectural principles, standards, etc. in collaboration with the IT Architecture team)

To participate in horizontal teams both within the IT directorate and across to our business partners

An ability to work under pressure, utilising your initiative and workload prioritization

Responsible for translating performance requirements into specific system technical design requirements and functions
- The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post._

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria
- Education to degree standard and/or equivalent qualification and experience
- In-depth expertise of developing design and architectures for deployment in virtualised on-premises, cloud or hybrid environments
- Extensive, demonstrable experience in the integration aspects of solution architecture using a variety of protocols and transport mechanisms
- Good understanding of the full solution development lifecycle
- Ability to seek innovative and cost-effective solutions to suit changing priorities with well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experienced in understanding functional and non-functional for specifying product requirements
- Experienced in working with third parties (both internal and external) to deliver IT solutions
- Excellent stakeholder engagement with key stakeholders in the Education and Students domain on the development and use of Student and Education Products and IT Services
- An understanding of data and integration technologies
- Excellent presentation skills and the ability to confidently communicate

Desirable criteria
- Experience of solution design and architecture
- Knowledge and understanding of cloud computing technology
- Appreciation of key issues within the HE sector (political, social, economic) and appreciation of how these forces drive technology requirements and solutions
- Project and Service Management qualifications/experience (e.g., APM, ITIL 4 )



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