Solution Architect

This will involve working across applications alongside infrastructure and m365.

• Accountable for the development, ownership, delivery and support of Solutions Architecture
• Understanding business needs, documenting those needs and producing technical solutions for the business requirements. Work with colleagues and users to investigate, model and document requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Review all technical designs and provide advice and guidance to the business.
• Lead and manage a flexible team including a technical author
• Fully understand Service Orientated Architecture with significant practical experience of service orientated design.
• Communicate complex IT architecture in business terms to internal and external decision makers, engaging with them to explain technical drivers and how such solutions/strategies address their current and future needs
• Responsible for providing advice on the use of the ICT environment to staff and business users and for determining the standards to which operating systems and software must comply.
• Ensure all key processes for the team are documented and owned and establish and embed a culture of continuous service improvement.
• Effectively manage the technical standards, advise users of departmental systems of these standards and to ensure compliance through effective communication, and provision of clear information, with all user groups.
• Effectively manage, monitor and forecast resources in accordance with policies and service priorities, and contribute to the development of the strategy specifically in relation to Solution Architecture.
• Develop partnerships with internal and external customers, service managers and external agencies and organisations engendering a culture of partnership and supporting their needs to achieve the objectives of the Digital and Data department.
• Attend and present reports to Management Boards, Senior Management and Project Boards as and when required and to report operational and corporate risks arising from changes to design principles.
• Identify opportunities, costs, issues and risks for business stakeholders and make recommendations.
• Implement and maintain all required architecture governance.

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