Service Architect

Role: Service Architect

Location: Bracknell with hybrid working, (some visiting of customer and other Fujitsu sites may be required) 

As a Service Architect, you will operate at a senior level to define and deliver major technical strategies, architectures, and projects. You will work closely with customers to understand their business and commercial priorities, providing valuable insights and ensuring solutions align with current and future needs.

Changes to service, process, organization, operating model and other aspects may be required in addition to technology components, and solutions must demonstrate how agreed requirements (such as automation of business processes) are met, any requirements which are not fully met or, and any options or considerations which require a business decision. You will also provide comprehensive guidance on the development and adjustment of solution components, ensuring they align with relevant strategies, policies, and standards, and remain compatible with existing and planned architectures.

Key Accountabilities

• Authority. Defines major technical projects for customers or Fujitsu, influencing their view of acceptable
  investment level. Determines strategies, architectures and proposals.
• Shapes technical proposals to be acceptable to the customer and may make solution/service trade-offs.
• Cost and risk. May manage a large design team, defining the approach to larger/more complex solution
  development and acceptance testing, and identifying strategic level risks and remedies.
• Influence. Determines the approach to whole classes of business, leading and influencing others in the
  development of new offerings.
• Business development. Works with customers to understand their business strategy and develop IT strategies
  and architecture for significant areas of their business.
• Requirements and design. Manages a team to agree customer requirements and produce the design, setting
  high level criteria for the design of major solutions and exercising design control over the implementation.
• Thought leadership. Communicates the impact of emerging technologies on customer and Fujitsu business to
  senior level customers and Fujitsu businesses.
• Knowledge re-use. Shares knowledge with colleagues and makes useful additions to the Fujitsu knowledge
  base.

This role will require you to be eligible and willing to undergo a high level of security clearance.

Please note: It's still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background in Service Architecture this could be the next opportunity for you.

Your benefits:

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work – employee discounts

Employee assistance programme / virtual GP

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of two stages of interviews. 

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our hybrid work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion 

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