Digital Solution Architect

Job DescriptionWorking with a Large IT Consultancy who are on the search for a Digital Solution Architect! Great Opportunity!Salary - £70,000 Per Annum + Additional Bonuses & Benefits!The focus of your role, as a digital solution architect, will be on working in a product design or development team to architect the solutions for our clients. You will work on new or existing IT services that need innovative solutions and potentially radical transformation to provide the digital offerings expected by the customers.Often both the delivery approach (customer-centric and agile) and technical solutions need to be proven and will require clear leadership to work collaboratively with our clients to achieve their outcomes. Your work will include the design of the end-to-end solution, mapping the underlying capabilities needed to build the solution, ensuring the solution meets the required architecture standards, patterns or blueprints and providing the necessary technical support to the scrum teams and product design team to develop the solution.An additional aspect of your role will be to prove the value of new propositions and solutions to our clients through prototyping, technical feasibility assessment and piloting. Working with cloud-based solutions to quickly implement MVPs or Spikes to prove the value of specific aspects of a solution to our clients. You will need to have hands-on experience to effectively work with UX and Service Designers and developers to design and implement solution and support rapid iterative development.As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.What you'll bring:.Must have experience of delivering Digital Solutions on one or more cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).Comfortable working in an Agile Environment balancing time-to-value and iterative delivery with governance and control processes.Experience and knowledge to quickly build and test applications, try out cloud native services, work alongside UX/UI or front end developers to build a prototype without hesitationA good understanding of Cloud Services and Solution Components covering PaaS, SaaS, ServerLess Computing and Micro-service based solution.Ability to communicate on a Business and Technical level bringing solutions to life for a range of stakeholders.Ability to design an end to end solution that is cost effective, increases digital footprint, increases completion rates of a transaction, understand user centric design, meets business KPIs and user satisfactionUnderstanding of the current and future technology trends. You must have worked in delivering digital applications or services, DevOps and waterfall environments before and know the challenges to bring the best of old and new worldAbility to develop our next generation of digital architects through formal line management and informal mentoring, coaching and learning development