Solution Architect

SIOP Solution Architect

Management Level C

Derby

Civil Aerospace are developing their next generation Digital products, leveraging Big Data and Cloud technologies to enhance and acceleration our Digital Twin capabilities. We are looking for a Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) Solution Architect to join our growing Civil Solution Development organisation. This role will play a pivotal part in shaping the technology and architecture for our SIOP portfolio. You are passionate about solution architecture and love to use your experience with technology to evangelise the benefits to both technical and non-technical communities.

As a SIOP Solution Architect you will be responsible for owning solution designs and content. You will be responsible for architectures across a wide variety of SIOP applications, using latest technologies that are available for on-premise and cloud deployments predominantly in Microsoft Azure Cloud. Working closely with assurance and security colleagues, you'll ensure all architectures and designs are compliant, ensuring we can maintain our trusted relationship with our customers.

We're looking for a true team player, who will work closely with a combination of in-house and supply-chain software agile DevOps teams. You'll be required to define architectures and input into designs, ensuring all teams have effective designs and, crucially, that everyone understands the architecture. You'll also be involved in developing, supporting and encouraging people to develop to their full potential and be at their best (plus enjoy their jobs). You will be passionate about the technology market, in particular SIOP technologies, and continuously researching and evolving your architectures. You will be highly aware of business requirements driving platform investment and shaping the platform to meet current and future business needs. Your business knowledge and customer focus will ensure solutions deliver capabilities to customers and not isolated tools.

Key Accountabilities

• Drawing on your passion and energy, evangelise the impact Digital technology can make within Rolls-Royce
• Provide extensive hands-on architecture and technical leadership to support SIOP application design and delivery.
• Take ownership of all aspects of application architecture within the SIOP product portfolio, considering, in line with architectural and security standards, reference architectures and enterprise road maps.
• Form a close working relationship with other architects and security teams within Rolls-Royce to share best practice and continually learn.
• Form a strong and trusted relationship with agile DevOps teams, providing technical guidance and thought leadership during continuous delivery
• To be the "brain" and see the entire SIOP picture enabling exploitation of data and services across the organisation to more effectively model and simulate our Fleet and Business.
• To converse directly or facilitate engagements with business communities to better understand business drivers for content development.
• Help to shape our Digital platform road maps ensuring your experience supports and enhances decisions made relating to the platform.
• Stay current with your understanding of the fast-changing technology market and ensure architectures align with current best practices.
• To recruit, encourage, inspire and develop our people, helping them to be at their best.

Key Experiences

• We always aim to release value quickly into our business, so we're looking for someone with experience of doing this.
• Finding the right balance between pace of delivery, quality, technical debt and cost is challenging. We're looking for someone with strong experience doing this.
• We're a growing internal software DevOps team, but we also work with software suppliers in the UK and offshore. We're looking for someone with strong experience working with a mix of software teams like these.
• We aim to achieve 100% automation in Continuous Integration and Delivery. We're looking for an individual who is passionate about automation and experienced in CICD.
• Our design ethos is focussed on Microsoft Cloud First, so we're looking for an individual with a passion to build strong relationships with Microsoft, experienced in working with IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
• Knowledge of key concepts within the Cloud environment such as Tenants, Subscriptions, Networking, Identities, control & data plane etc.
• Knowledge of architectural patterns, industry standards, Supply chain management solutions etc.
• We're committed to ensuring our teams can be autonomous and accountable for building and running their products. Technologies such as microservices and containerisation play a big part in this, so we're looking for someone with experience in modern software practices such as these
• Our SIOP portfolio is key to our business strategy. We're excited to see the benefits this platform will bring to the business. You'll be a big part of shaping our designs for this platform, so we're looking for someone with experience of SIOP, Cloud and Big Data technologies.
• Building a capable, engaged workforce is critical to effective delivery. We're looking for team players, who enjoy supporting, mentoring and encouraging less experienced members of the DevOps team.
• You'll bring a solution-centric mindset, working closely with our teams, you'll be able to translate this business knowledge into working solutions.