Solution Architect (8 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Join our team as a Solution Architect Lead on an 8-month fixed-term contract. In this role, you will provide solution architecture expertise to support our clients in achieving their digital objectives. You will analyze and translate business, information, and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint, work with various teams to produce optimal designs, and manage and lead the target design, policies, and standards.

Responsibilities

• Additionally, you will provide hands-on support alongside the Dev Team for complex solutions and code migrations, and coach and develop the AND Digital Product Developers across the squads.
• Analyses and translates business, information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve business objectives for clients.
• Work with enterprise architecture, application and infrastructure teams to produce optimal designs for technology to support products and identify dependencies with other systems.
• Manage and lead the target design, policies and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensure consistency of design across designated projects.

Requirements

• Broad understanding of the key layers of IT architecture including enterprise, data, application and solution, specific to enterprise level eCommerce platforms such as Hybris, ATG and WebSphere
• Experience in cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure, Saas and Iaas, cloud infrastructure and multiple programming languages
• A track record of delivering end to end solution architecture for large and complex multi-channel eCommerce or digital projects
• Experience in a consulting role and confident in presenting /working and building relationships with all levels of seniority, from clients to dev teams
• Good knowledge of open source technologies (in full-stack environments) and stretching into code management, testing and deployment tools
• Good experience and knowledge of the Agile /Scrum delivery process
• Commercial awareness of implementing software i.e. cost of system, ownership, impact of new tech into established organisation
• You have worked for a professional services business, in a solution architecture role for leading corporate clients
• Understanding of IT organisations, functions, roles, activities

Preferred

• Experience of best practices processes and frameworks such as TOGAF and architectural patterns / models