Solution Designer

Solution Designer

£55,000 - £60,000 + benefits

Permanent

Full-time (35 hours per week)

Wimbledon (flexible and hybrid working)

About us

We've been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. We help organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. We're the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals - experts in people, work and change. With over 160,000 members globally - and a growing community using our research, insights and learning - we give trusted advice and offer independent thought leadership. And we are a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone. 

We offer an inclusive and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days' holiday with an option to buy and sell days, personal development allowance, access to an award winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme. 

The role

As a Solution Designer, you will translate business requirements and design effective digital solutions as part of a wider team. You will be working alongside another solution designer and other digital professionals, and you will contribute towards delivering the Digital Transformation ensuring that technical designs are in keeping with the CIPD's business strategy, IT principles and strategic goals.

What you'll be doing

• Working alongside the Head of Technology and Solution Designer to design, develop and implement the core building blocks of the high-level architecture.
• Working within projects to ensure solutions align to the overall strategy, comply to organisations Enterprise Architecture, IT design and development standards.
• Providing technical design input for new digital programmes, projects and workstreams for contributing to the selection, evaluation and discovery phase of new software implementation projects.
• Supporting development of end-to-end solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensuring technical architecture of digital projects translates into programme delivery with regards to solutions with technology element.
• Ongoing technical focal point to provide technical guidance throughout the project / programme lifecycle to help make progress and resolve issues.
• Contributing to high level estimating, risk assessment (identifying potential risks and challenges associated with the proposed solution and working on mitigating them), GAP analysis within the project.
• Defining and optionally creating proof of concepts or prototypes.
• Collaborating in delivery of high quality, successful integrated solutions.

What you'll need to be successful

• Strong background in Development (expert), Design (proficient) or Solution Architecture
• Able to translate software requirements into technical design blueprints or solutions
• Exposure to multi-tier architecture environments encompassing APIs, integrated packaged software products (COTS, iPaaS, SaaS) and experience with leading cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Enterprise software implementation and Identity and Access Management
• Attend and participate in requirements sessions with business stakeholders and vendor led workshops
• Good broad understanding of current and emerging technologies and how they may be applied at the CIPD to drive digital business such as APIs, Messaging, Cloud environments, Databases, Networking and Security
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain digital concepts and technologies for senior leaders and key stakeholders
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders and across organisational boundaries to achieve results through Agile Methodology, Modelling Tools (Bizzdesign), Continuous Integration and DevOps

If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply.

CIPD Empowering People-Valuing Difference.
At the CIPD, we believe that every person brings unique perspectives, experiences and strengths that enrich our workplaces and communities. We see diversity as the wide range of visible and non-visible differences that make each of us who we are — including, but not limited to: age, colour, disability, ethnicity, education, gender identity, neurodiversity, religion or belief, relationship status, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic background and other personal and protected characteristics and experiences.

Research continues to show that equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), drives better decision-making, innovation and problem-solving and in turn better organisational business outcomes. By embracing our differences and creating equal opportunities and inclusive cultures we can build environments where everyone feels respected, valued and able to thrive — and where both organisational and individual goals are achieved.

We are determined to ensuring employment policy and practice promote and deliver EDI at every stage of the employment relationship. This includes not only recognising and understanding how each individuals personal and protected characteristics can either advantage or disadvantage employment experiences and outcomes, but also to continually strengthen our understanding and sharing the benefits EDI. 

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.