IT Summer Placement Programme

We have ambitious net zero targets, and our business is growing to help us achieve our strategy. We're looking for students or graduates who can bring fresh ideas, new skills and creative thinking, to deliver innovative solutions to help us reach net zero. This is an exciting time to join SSE, you have the power to make a change and help us build a better, more sustainable world of energy for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come.

The IT Architecture Support role is responsible for assisting the IT Architecture team in delivering and maintaining the IT architecture vision, roadmap, and baseline for the organization. The role involves working closely with the IT Architecture Lead and other IT architects to manage the architecture backlog, ensure alignment with the strategic roadmap, and produce high-quality architecture deliverables and visions.

Architecture Backlog Management: The IT Architecture Support role helps to prioritize, track, and update the architecture backlog items, which are the requests and issues related to the IT architecture. The role also assists in creating and reviewing the architecture backlog items, ensuring that they are clear, concise, and aligned with the architecture principles and standards.

Baseline Management: The IT Architecture Support role supports the IT Architecture team in maintaining and updating the architecture baseline, which is the current state of the IT architecture. The role helps to document and communicate the changes and impacts of the architecture baseline, as well as to perform quality checks and audits on the architecture artifacts and repositories.

Strategic Roadmap: The IT Architecture Support role contributes to the development and communication of the IT architecture strategic roadmap, which is the future state of the IT architecture. The role helps to identify and analyse the gaps and opportunities between the current and future state, as well as to define and monitor the architecture transition initiatives and milestones.

Architecture Deliverables and Visions: The IT Architecture Support role assists the IT Architecture team in producing and presenting the architecture deliverables and visions, which are the outputs and outcomes of the IT architecture activities. The role helps to create and refine the architecture diagrams, models, views, and documents, as well as to prepare and deliver the architecture presentations and reports.

What do I need to join?

At SSE we're proud to celebrate difference. We all have different skills, experience and backgrounds and we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture where you can be yourself.

Safety is at the heart of everything we do at SSE and we live by the mantra 'if it's not safe, we don't do it'. You should show alignment with our core values and have a genuine passion and interest in the energy sector.

As the organisations grows and becomes more international, our students and graduates need to be highly flexible in order to embrace the changes and keep up with the fast-paced evolution of the business. Our students and graduates are agile in their thinking and seek to address knowledge gaps. You should be comfortable working to and setting stretching individual targets and using your own initiative to overcome challenges.

You'll be studying for, or have graduated with a degree in one of the following degree disciplines; computer science; information technology and systems, software engineering and development, technology risk and audit, cyber security, cloud, data science, data analytics, statistics, architecture, service management.

About SSE

We are driven by our purpose: to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We are a leading generator of renewable electricity and one of the largest electricity network companies in the UK. We develop, own and operate low carbon infrastructure to support the zero-carbon transition. This includes onshore and offshore wind, hydro power, electricity transmission and distribution grids, and efficient gas-fired generation, alongside providing energy products and services for businesses, and we have interests across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Poland.

We are UK listed, employing 13,000 talented and skilled people and are real Living Wage and Fair Tax Mark accredited. Because we’re SSE, and we’re for a better world of energy – for everyone.

What’s in it for you?

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package 

As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for  to find out more.

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