Solution Architect
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Solution Architect (Principal Analyst) for an initial 4 month contract on a rate of £530/day (Inside IR35). This role will have flexible working arrangements.
Responsibilities:
– Providing technical leadership and direction across a range of domains, establishing and maintaining application architecture best practice and culture across a range of agile delivery teams
– Translating strategic aims and outcomes to local delivery plans, ensuring business problems and desired outcomes are properly defined, and the scope of a solution meets the organisation’s requirements
– Collaborating and problem solving with a wide range of stakeholders to develop business and technical strategies
– Maintaining and developing comprehensive documentation of current and target application architecture, utilised by the organisation for easy understanding and future reference
– Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends related to all elements of data architecture, evaluating new tools and technologies and recommending their adoption based on their suitability to achieve strategic objectives
– Collaborating closely with colleagues from other disciplines and partner organisations in common approaches and solutions to deliver against strategic aims.
– Managing risks and decisions in a transparent way
Essential Skills:
– Strong leadership skills with proven ability to deliver corporate programmes while engaging credibly with a range of stakeholders, business partners, and development teams to understand needs and guide implementation of long-term IT strategies that support business goals.
– Reputable experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders to provide specialist application architecture expertise, analysis and direction.
– Extensive track record of delivering performant, scalable, resilient, secure and cost-effective Cloud solutions, with a strong understanding of best practices in accordance with well architected frameworks pertaining to cloud technologies.
– Experienced in designing solutions and services with a high level of ingrained security and adherence to GDPR Information Governance and cyber security regulations
– Proven experience in development and implementation of standards and best practices with the aim of producing best of bread technology solutions
– Ability to get the best from people and contribute to the leadership of multi-disciplinary teams, providing clear communication, support, motivation and encouraging innovation
– An effective communicator, able to convey a vision to teams and stakeholders at all levels, using architecture communication techniques
– Ability to lead the framing of a problem characterised by high complexity, complication, or risk so that a solution can be created.
– Able to create technical designs characterised by high risk, impact, and complexity
– Help others challenge requirements and assumptions to identify opportunities when defining problems and solution options
– Extremely well-developed knowledge of system architecture principles and processes and how these are best applied to large, highly complex systems.
– Identify and address architectural risks that affect multiple teams or domains, using architectural governance and assurance to make design decisions and manage technical risks.
– Delivery focussed, you are disciplined and able to define and prioritise what’s most important and how to achieve that in the most efficient and effective way.
– Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workload, and that of others, and to meet strict deadlines
– Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
– Values driven leadership approach to practice, aligned with core values.
Desirable Skills:
– Degree level qualification with in-depth experience and postgraduate or post registration study, such as that obtained through a master’s degree OR SCQF Level 11 equivalence obtained via Professional Development Awards; Graduate or Professional Apprenticeships; and SVQs
– Experienced in Agile Methodologies
– Experience of complex environments where the parameters of the job are not necessarily clearly defined
– Experience of communicating and influencing at senior level and of giving presentations at local/national levels
– Experienced in leading the planning, execution, and reporting of delivery progress at a senior level
– Experience maintaining large and complex cloud infrastructure that supports .NET based web applications.
– Strategic thinker, with an understanding of the long-term vision of the organisation and define approaches and plans that will achieve the vision whilst providing value and the best outcomes experience for stakeholders
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Providing technical leadership and direction across a range of domains, establishing and maintaining application architecture best practice and culture across a range of agile delivery teams
– Translating strategic aims and outcomes to local delivery plans, ensuring business problems and desired outcomes are properly defined, and the scope of a solution meets the organisation’s requirements
– Collaborating and problem solving with a wide range of stakeholders to develop business and technical strategies
– Maintaining and developing comprehensive documentation of current and target application architecture, utilised by the organisation for easy understanding and future reference
– Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends related to all elements of data architecture, evaluating new tools and technologies and recommending their adoption based on their suitability to achieve strategic objectives
– Collaborating closely with colleagues from other disciplines and partner organisations in common approaches and solutions to deliver against strategic aims.
– Managing risks and decisions in a transparent way
Essential Skills:
– Strong leadership skills with proven ability to deliver corporate programmes while engaging credibly with a range of stakeholders, business partners, and development teams to understand needs and guide implementation of long-term IT strategies that support business goals.
– Reputable experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders to provide specialist application architecture expertise, analysis and direction.
– Extensive track record of delivering performant, scalable, resilient, secure and cost-effective Cloud solutions, with a strong understanding of best practices in accordance with well architected frameworks pertaining to cloud technologies.
– Experienced in designing solutions and services with a high level of ingrained security and adherence to GDPR Information Governance and cyber security regulations
– Proven experience in development and implementation of standards and best practices with the aim of producing best of bread technology solutions
– Ability to get the best from people and contribute to the leadership of multi-disciplinary teams, providing clear communication, support, motivation and encouraging innovation
– An effective communicator, able to convey a vision to teams and stakeholders at all levels, using architecture communication techniques
– Ability to lead the framing of a problem characterised by high complexity, complication, or risk so that a solution can be created.
– Able to create technical designs characterised by high risk, impact, and complexity
– Help others challenge requirements and assumptions to identify opportunities when defining problems and solution options
– Extremely well-developed knowledge of system architecture principles and processes and how these are best applied to large, highly complex systems.
– Identify and address architectural risks that affect multiple teams or domains, using architectural governance and assurance to make design decisions and manage technical risks.
– Delivery focussed, you are disciplined and able to define and prioritise what’s most important and how to achieve that in the most efficient and effective way.
– Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workload, and that of others, and to meet strict deadlines
– Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
– Values driven leadership approach to practice, aligned with core values.
Desirable Skills:
– Degree level qualification with in-depth experience and postgraduate or post registration study, such as that obtained through a master’s degree OR SCQF Level 11 equivalence obtained via Professional Development Awards; Graduate or Professional Apprenticeships; and SVQs
– Experienced in Agile Methodologies
– Experience of complex environments where the parameters of the job are not necessarily clearly defined
– Experience of communicating and influencing at senior level and of giving presentations at local/national levels
– Experienced in leading the planning, execution, and reporting of delivery progress at a senior level
– Experience maintaining large and complex cloud infrastructure that supports .NET based web applications.
– Strategic thinker, with an understanding of the long-term vision of the organisation and define approaches and plans that will achieve the vision whilst providing value and the best outcomes experience for stakeholders
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
