Solution Architect

SOLUTION ARCHITECT - OUTSIDE IR35 - INITIAL 12 MONTHS

One of Loriens leading Public Sector clients is looking for a highly skilled Solution Architect to join their team on an initial 12 month contract.

The successful candidate will work principally on a strategic digital transformation programme, ensuring that our Design, Innovation and Architecture principles and standards are applied effectively and efficiently across a number of exciting, user-centric change projects.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working with business and change stakeholders in shaping, agreeing and delivering solution architectures aligned to wider Design, Innovation and Architecture principles and standards
• Working closely with Digital Labs and Scrum Teams to ensure that detailed designs and delivery work is consistent with the agreed solution architecture
• Providing general technology guidance and advice to business and change stakeholders
• Identifying opportunities to deliver business benefit and user-centric capability through adoption of new technologies and/or new ways of working
• Collaborating with business stakeholders, business architects, other solution architects, product managers and Digital Labs across the organisation and with external organisations and partner

We would like you to have the following experience:

• Technical and solution architecture and design including within programmes, projects or product-centric organisations
• Collaboratively devising technical standards, blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, transition states and target solutions across multiple services / organisations
• Interacting and influencing senior stakeholders and a wide range of people across organisations, suppliers, customers, internal departments and teams
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives by helping to build solution design capability through delivery of solution architecture, standards and mentoring

We would like you to be:

• Delivery focussed
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities
• Familiar with working in a fast paced gated agile environment
• Able to grasp the existing 'as is' business and solution landscape

Ideally, you will have had exposure to:

• Working with Cloud Infrastructure & Security Specific Experience.
• Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
• Cloud Native/Hybrid Cloud architectures
• Cloud platform experience - e.g. - Microsoft Azure
• Solution Integration and Integration Layers
• SAAS package delivery and implementation experience
• IAAS experience
• PAAS experience

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.