Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Solutions Architect for an initial 12 month contract with option to extend on a rate of £600/day (Outside IR35). This role will be based in Edinburgh, however, attendance at the project site will only be required on an as-needed basis
Responsibilities:
– Working with business and change stakeholders in shaping, agreeing and delivering solution architectures aligned to wider Design, Innovation and Architecture principles and standards
– 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 across the organisation and with external organisations and partners
Essential Skills:
– 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
– 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
Desirable Skills:
– 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
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
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