As a Solutions Architect you will be joining an existing team that has a vital role to play, working with a number of Enterprise Clients, IT leadership and subject matter experts to build a view of the organisational strategy, processes, information and information technology assets.
You’ll be working alongside our sales team with presales & consulting as well as architecting solutions to fit business requirements. This will require you to have a solid base of technical skills, prior architecture experience, great client skills and the communication and relationship skills to work effectively with the clients and articulate and present solutions to fit.
This role also provides technical leadership to our delivery team so it will require a depth and breadth of technical knowledge and experience as a senior in the market.
The Role
- Work with Business Analysts to ensure that the Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Non-Functional Requirements are suitably documented and mapped together to determine appropriate solutions that can be tested against, and detailed enough to prove that the solution will deliver
- Defining and articulating complex solutions for large scale / high impact projects, including business, application, data and infrastructure impacts along with testing and implementation considerations through defined design & approval process
- Reporting and communicating to both Clients and variety of internal stakeholders within Datacom
- Developing pragmatic, commercially feasible architectures, considering all functional as well as non-functional requirements (e.g.. performance, capacity, accessibility, security, usability)
- Leading a multi-disciplinary team of application, data and infrastructure professionals to implement the architecture, including those distributed across geographical boundaries
- High Level Design and Detail Design of Solutions and the requisite planning
- Staying abreast of industry trends and products by cultivating working relationships with industry leading vendors
- Troubleshoot complex and intermittent problems to tight time-frames whilst under pressure
- Provide strategic consultation to subsidiaries projects and service development initiatives in defining or designing business processes and functions, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer requirements to achieve high-business user satisfaction.
The Person
- A track record of designing solutions with a technological background/qualifications in Networks & Security
- Experience designing and developing standards and solutions that support the introduction of new and emerging technologies
- Excellent communication and possibly management/team leader experience
- Displays personal drive and integrity
- Has had previous roles with BAU teams and Project delivery (HLD & DD to implementation)
What’s on offer
This is a senior role in our Networks team and offers a highly attractive salary package, a full suite of insurance benefits for you and your family and most importantly the chance to join a company well renowned for its reputation of delivery and open and supportive culture.