IT Solutions Architect

Job Description

Rutherford Briant have the pleasure of assisting our client to find a new Solutions Architect. Our client is bringing a new focus to understanding and supporting the business functions to ensure a positive delivery of business outcomes.The role is responsible for creating efficient and effective detailed technical, data, business and security solutions that adhere to the technical architecture and meet company business objectives and requirements ensuring alignment and adherence to theprinciples of simplifications, sharing and re-use.Role Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing technical, data management, security and business solutions that successfully translate user requirements in to effective and efficient operationally viable technology to support the successful operation of business requirementsand services.
• Ensuring that enterprise wide and specific business solutions are designed to align correctly to architectural principles and technical architecture to ensure standardisation, simplification, sharing and re-use.
• Applying policies, standards and good practices when designing solutions to ensure compliance between business and technology plans and enterprise transformation activities in support of business operations.
• Adherence to technical standards and principles to inform solutions design and ensuring they are correctly employed in all technical initiatives to achieve commonality of solutions design and implementation which reduces cost and creates a more efficientand easily maintained technology environment.
• Contributing as a technology subject matter expert to the delivery of technical innovation which gives advantage to the business by capturing and prioritising market and environmental trends, business plans and objectives, and identifying the business benefitsof alternative approaches ensuring alignment to the enterprise architecture.
• Responsible for the provision of expert technical advice and guidance to the Commercial Team to ensure suppliers and procured products adhere to the enterprise architecture and principles of operation.
• Works collaboratively by providing technical expert advice and guidance to business partners, operational teams and suppliers to develop and present business cases, for high-level initiatives, approval, funding and prioritisation.
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.Candidate Experience

• Educated to degree level or equivalent by experience.
• Evidence of continual professional development to keep pace with technical and business change that meet defined SFIA V& competencies.
• Able to demonstrate strong experience in a Solutions Architecture role preferably working within a large Local Authority or within a private sector organisation providing Public Sector Services.
• Demonstrate a track record of successfully working within effective teams delivering Business Solutions that have been proved successful in meeting complex business requirements and enabling standardisation, simplification, sharing and re-use in the designof technical and business solutions.
• Must demonstrate a track record of working within effective teams delivering high quality Service Management Services that have been proved successful in meeting complex business requirements and in enabling standardisation, simplification, sharing andre-use
• Accredited to TOGAF 9.2 and must have demonstrable understanding and capability to employ supporting frameworks and methodologies including ArchiMate, BPMN, COBIT and IT4IT.
• Able to demonstrate a clear understanding and capability to work within relevant ICT related standards including ITIL V3, ISO/IEC 38500, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 22301, ISO/IEC 20000, PRINCE2 and MSP.
• Experience in the use of Enterprise Modelling tools and methods such as EA Sparx and Orbus iServer and developing systems in line with GDS and Cyber Security Group guidelines

Benefits

• Flexible working
• Regular workshops
• Personal development plans

Keyskills :
Local GovernmentInformation ArchitecturePRINCE2TOGAFITIL Process