Technical Solution Architect

2 weeks ago

Altrincham, Trafford, United Kingdom Informed Solutions Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Technical Solution Architect to join our engineering discipline at Informed Solutions. 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.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, document, and implement software solutions (either bespoke or commercial off-the-shelf) to solve business problems and meet user needs.
  • Work with clients and colleagues to design robust software architectures capable of meeting both functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Achieve consensus on potential solution designs, technology choices, and the approach to delivery (including transitional approaches if required) with client technical and business stakeholders.
  • Provide subject matter expertise on solution architecture concepts to both Informed and client teams.
  • Assure the implementation of a solution across several increments remains aligned with the originally envisaged architecture and desired client outcomes.
  • Represent your team and your client in technical governance forums (e.g. Technical/ Design Authorities).
  • Influence company-wide architecture best practices, standards, tools, and artefacts, and lead efforts to drive adoption across the company.
  • Be an active member of the Engineering discipline, promoting the professional development of others, building new capability, and sharing best practice.
  • Support the ongoing growth of Informed's Engineering capability by helping to recruit technical staff and contributing to InformedACADEMYTM.
  • Get involved in events and industry forums, stay up to date with the latest technology, services, techniques and methods, and bring the latest innovations into our work.
Requirements
  • Experience and understanding of architecture patterns and concepts for enterprise-scale solutions (e.g. accounting for Integration, Security, Scalability considerations).
  • Experience collaborating with client technical stakeholders to define and agree solution architectures capable of meeting business and user needs.
  • An unbiased and independent perspective on technology stacks used to deliver a particular solution.
  • A proven track record in leading collaborative design and decision-making with clients.
  • Intimate knowledge of architecting modern, innovative digital services.
  • Demonstrated capability working with cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.
  • 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.).
  • Understanding of modern programming languages, distributed system architectures (e.g. microservices), cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines.
Desirable Skills and Experience
  • Skilled in working with architectures that involve legacy systems integration and/or modernisation.
  • Experience developing transitional architecture roadmaps for proposed solutions.
  • Capability designing and implementing architectures that operationalise data science and Machine Learning components.
  • Expertise in evaluating existing solutions using structured assessment frameworks (e.g. AWS Well Architected Framework) to proactively identify improvements.
  • Hands-on knowledge of designing and implementing software architectures capable of handling sensitive data (e.g. Personally Identifiable Information or payment information).
  • Commercial awareness with ability to balance trade-offs where necessary to ensure a successful delivery.
  • Ability to deliver as part of multiple projects, concurrently across multiple teams.
  • Domain-relevant professional accreditations/certifications at an advanced level.
  • Awareness of the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice.
Personal Qualities
  • You use your experience to lead, coach and mentor more junior team members.
  • You should excel at conveying complex technical concepts in a non-technical manner and facilitate trusted working relationships with stakeholders.
  • You should have the ability to work collaboratively, proactively and be flexible in responding to changing needs and priorities.
  • Excellent work planning capabilities and time management skills.
  • Ability to balance conflicting deadlines and priorities.
  • A meticulous attention to detail.
  • Punctuality, reliability, and a clear commitment to your role.
Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits to our employees, including:

  • InformedACADEMYTM - We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
  • 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.
  • Hybrid working
  • Private Health Care Cover
  • Generous life assurance cover
  • Gym Membership
  • Monthly office lunch
  • Onsite massage sessions
  • 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays
  • Sabbatical Leave Scheme
  • Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay
  • Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay
  • Company Pension Contribution
  • Profit Share Scheme
  • Payment of professional subscriptions
  • Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

Qualifying period applies

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