​IT Solutions Architect - Energy Sector - Remote based

• Inside IR35
• 3 months initial contract
• Remote based
• £675 per day Inside IR35 via Umbrella

Our client is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to provide architecture expertise relating to a number of initiatives and projects in their Corporate business unit (includes Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Property Service etc). They operate within a regulated environment and their technology landscape is large scale, complex and highly interconnected.

You will be an expert in one or (preferably) more of the following domains
• Business and Application Architecture
• Technology and Infrastructure Architecture (including Integration)
• Data Architecture (Enterprise Information Management and Data & Analytics)

Solutions Architect

Day to day you will be working on specific, defined deliverables which may include: • Creating and iterating technology visions, strategies, roadmaps and associated portfolio initiatives, aligning to and supporting business strategies
• Working with key business stakeholders to identify business needs
• Producing solution options papers with strategically aligned recommendations (including trade-offs, compromises, and conflicts) and proposed MVP’s, ensuring alignment of technical capability to the technical roadmap, IT Strategy and business objectives.
• Collaborating with product managers to build business cases to proceed to delivery
• Creation of reusable architecture patterns
• Architecture and design assurance for Corporate platforms and associated integrations
• Collaborating with product managers and other stakeholders to create and maintain robust and hygienic backlogs of Corporate platform features and associated enablers

Solution Architect - Knowledge & Skills

• Proven business and technical acumen with a strategy and architecture bias.
• A proven understanding of cloud and digital technologies and agile architecture techniques coupled with an open, delivery-focused and customer centric mind set.
• The ability to establish technical credibility within the professional community and successfully convey complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Significant end-to-end design and architecture experience across a number of technologies, systems and products with demonstrable skills in managing complexity and ambiguity, assessing and recommending system options, managing non-functional requirements and maintaining an architectural runway in a complex environment to tight timescales.
• Understanding of complex compliance and regulatory requirements and how to incorporate technology, infrastructure and security requirements into end-to-end architectural designs.
• Experience of agile development practices such as Scrum, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Desirable
• Experience of agile collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Experience of enterprise modelling tools, ideally LeanIX • Experience and certification in a selection of the following:
• Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure
• AWS Code Tools, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Terraform, Ansible
• Dell Boomi and cloud-native integration technologies
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• SAFe certifications such as Agilist, Architect, DevOps Practitioner
• TOGAF certification