Solutions Architect

About us

We provide products and services that are already improving the operational delivery of rail services.  Our vision is to create a truly connected rail network, using our technology expertise and rail industry experience to deliver game-changing solutions that improve the quality of transport across the UK and beyond.  We are driven by improving the experience of rail for its customers, contributing to sustainable transport, and making the services affordable.  Technology offers huge potential to support the industry, in the UK and beyond, to support this drive.

We have consistently innovated to create a best in the market product, supporting decision making in complex operational environments.  We continue to evolve our offer and recently integrated our technology with our own Traffic Management System; an operational and technical first.  Our service offer continues to grow, taking advantage of technologies including cloud and data analytics.

To make this happen, we are looking for a curious, creative, and motivated candidate to design and support the implementation of solutions we provide.  You will be highly proficient in the design and operation of high availability, secure applications in the cloud and on premise, and your enthusiasm and knowledge will inspire others to become equally capable as our portfolio of applications grows.

About the role

You will be responsible for a range of activities, including but not limited to:

• Responsibility for the architecture and design of one of our products that support the GB rail operations.
• Work with alongside our product development teams to implement the design.
• Identify suitable patterns and designs to build products to provide reliability and affordability for our customers.
• Work closely with business leads and product owners to understand solution requirements.
• Work closely with lead architects and engineers to create and maintain architectural templates and build/operational documents.
• Support our technical teams design and implement for infrastructure provision, releases, and pipelines.
• Support the upskilling of technical and business team members.

 About you

You will be passionate about delivering technology and programmes of works that benefit society, the economy, and environmental sustainability.

• Have a technical background with a keen attention to detail, enjoy responsibility and deliver on your commitments.
• Have excellent communication and listening skills, be a team player, not afraid to step out of your role where it is best for the team. 
• You can act as a technical coach/mentor, supporting the teams to understand and implement designs.
• Bring energy and drive to your work and learning.
• An excellent problem-solver and show initiative to deliver your promises, favouring practical solutions over perfection.
• You are highly motivated and organised, able to manage your workload and commitments.
• You are resilient and willing to work outside of your comfort zone and thrive in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Your technical abilities

• Architecture skills: Understanding principles of good design, architectural frameworks, and tools such as Archi, C4, UML, domain-driven design, and a solid understanding of SDLC.
• Integration patterns: API architecture and design to enable integrations between internal and external systems and components, including OO, MQTT, Event-Driven, Pub-Sub, and Data Transfer.
• Experience with secure-by-design and design for reliability approaches, including familiarity with OWASP, ISO/IEC 27001, NCSC & NIST (principles: identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover)
• Experience with cloud (AWS) and creating systems from scratch in these environments.
• Understanding/experience of the different types of architecture e.g. Microservices/Monolith/Event Driven
• Data (ingestion, integration, security, lifecycle management): Change Data Capture (CDC), ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), real-time and low-latency data processing, data intelligence.

So that you can thrive both in and out of work we offer the following benefits on top of a competitive salary that rewards you for the value you bring:  

• Hybrid working 
• 27 days annual leave in addition to public holidays
• 3 additional 'privilege days' typically scheduled between Christmas/New Year
• Pension plan with matched contributions from 5%-8% 
• Private Healthcare that covers you and your immediate dependents
• Group Income Protection cover
• Life Assurance
• Monthly divisional days that bring the whole team together

We have a flexible, hybrid approach to work - so please talk to us about your preferences and how these could work for both you and the team.  We do require everyone to be in one of our offices (London, Derby, or Milton Keynes) at least once a week. We provide this flexibility to enable you to work most efficiently.

To find out more about Resonate please visit our careers page: Resonate - Current Openings (workable.com