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Technical and Solutions Architect

Your Responsibilities:

  • Working closely with the CTO and Chief Engineer you will lead and be accountable for all solutions / end to end design activities for projects across the systems engineering and development lifecycle within solution domains.

  • Working with well-understood technologies you will translate business visions, goals, objectives and high-level commissioning requirements into system designs.

  • You will take ownership of solutioning activities for major opportunities within delivery programmes and manage the solution design process from initial concepts through to transition into operations.

  • You will provide confidence to stakeholders that solutions will achieve their scope, time, cost and quality objectives, and realise their benefits.

  • You will own the end to end solution architecture for allocated projects, identifying and engaging all stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams that need to contribute.

  • You will develop elements of technical strategy, roadmaps and vision that align to board approved business cases, policies and wider Enterprise standards.

  • You will make design trades and decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity.

  • You will provide Technical Design Authority and Governance for technical solution architectures for allocated programmes and projects.

  • You will resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions.

  • You will maintain effective relationships and deal openly with all key stakeholders, taking into account the needs of all stakeholders.

  • You will provide technical consultancy for new initiatives, to assist in the definition of business requirements or technical strategies.

  • You will ensure proposed solutions are aligned with key non-functional requirements relating to, amongst other things, resilience, availability, performance, and scalability.

  • You will identify and monitor disruptive technologies in opening up innovative opportunities.

  • You will steer the development and continuous delivery pipelines for Scaled Agile and DevOps initiatives.

  • You will provide team leadership with the ability to motivate and mobilise individuals outside reporting lines.

 

Desirable Skills:

  • BSc, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or related field.

  • Results-oriented, self-starter, capable of working independently and within a team environment to meet deadlines.

  • A track record in leading or developing high quality, enterprise class solutions using a structured system development lifecycle.

  • Experience of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or MODAF to support systems delivery.

  • Ability to model solutions using notational standards of UML and Archimate 3.0.

  • 5+ years of experience in a design authority, technical/solution architecture or systems engineering role.

  • Appreciation of Agile development methodologies including SAFe, DSDM & SCRUM, DevOps and continuous methods.

  • Experience working across multiple solution domains such as; Application Architectures,  Infrastructure, Security, DevOps Engineering.

  • A superior attention to detail.

  • Strong analytical, problem solving and organisational skills.

  • Ability to compare technologies and make recommendations to senior members of the team.

  • Experience in establishing a project plan and facilitating the setting of priorities.

  • Experience working with Central Government, particularly in Defence or Security.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and excellent inter-personal skills.

  • Willing to work outside of normal business hours to get the job done and to travel if required.


Demonstrable subject mater expertise in one or more of the following areas:

  • Cloud architectures AWS or Azure.

  • AI and Data Sciences. Machine Learning techniques and algorithms; especially Neural Networks, Decision Forests, Anomaly Detection.

  • Knowledge and skills in the use of current state of the art machine learning frameworks such as Amazon AI, Scikit-Learn, H2O, Keras, TensorFlow and Spark, etc.

  • DevOps Engineering and Technologies. Terraform, Docker, Ansible, Python, Jenkins, Agile Methodologies

  • Enterprise Application Architectures and Frameworks (Java EE, Spring, C++, C#, .NET etc).

  • Middleware and Integration: Oracle Fusion Middleware, SOA Suite12c, WebLogic, Portal, UCM, SOA, OSB, BAM, BPM and Oracle web forms. Experience with some of the following products: WebSphere, Jboss

  • Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Cassandra etc.

  • Network and Information Security Architectures.​

  • Tactical and Deployed ICT systems.

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If you want to apply for this role please email recruitment@st-erth.com with a covering letter and your CV.

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