Infrastructure solution architect

This is a senior architecture role within the global Customer Technology organisation, as part of the team responsible for serving the Customeroperating entity.

You will have a high level of accountability and responsibility, operating in a dynamic and evolving environment. The role combinesstrategic solution architecture with deep technical infrastructure expertise, requiring the ability to operate effectively across both dimensions.

The primary activities of this role are to define and deliver end-to-end IT solution architecture, create repeatable architecture patterns,produce solution designs,and advise internal partners on how best to invest in the right IT solutions to realise

Customer's strategic ambitions in the UK. Security and service are key aspects of all designs and deliverables.

The role entails working closely with and influencing a wide variety of business and technical stakeholders, understanding overall business and IT strategy, organisational fit, compliance, and ongoing business change requirements. It includes leadingarchitectural design authorities, providing technical leadership to other architects, and driving alignment of the Customer Technology landscape with the enterprise target picture.

In addition to the above,the role is responsible for the architectural assurance of deliverables and for the QA of peer deliverables. A key element of the role is the research of market-leading technologies and technology services, along with the generation of business cases to present to architectural design authorities to justify purchase and implementation. You will also be highlyprocess-orientated, able to ensure that the architecture process can demonstrate traceability of the design decisions made, successfully arguing both the pros and cons of each option.

The role sits within a small team of architects, reporting to the principal architect for technology, working closely with technical, solution, and integration architects across the widerteam and with the enterprise architects in the Customerteam.

Responsibilities

You will:

• Produce proposals and justify the value of technology strategies to senior business audiences
• Drive alignment of the Customer Technology landscape with the enterprise target picture, including system retirement
• Ensure that architecture, divergences, and risks are clearly communicated and agreed by all stakeholders
• Convey architecture decisionsthrough a varietyof communication techniques to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Lead architectural design authorities for projects, and work within enterprise architectural governance and enterprise portfolio management frameworks
• Translate business requirements into technology, service,and security deliverables, identifying risks and proposing appropriate mitigations
• Identify all areasof architectural, technical, and security risk,and ensure theseare managed with the cooperation of appropriate stakeholders
• Produce (or ensure production of) all architectural deliverables under the development methodology, including solutiondesigns, architecture patterns, technical infrastructure designs and supporting documentation
• Provide design assurance for solution architecture to ensure solutions are implemented as designed, to the correct standards and quality
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other solution architects within the team
• Self-manage day-to-day architecture priorities and delivery workload

Skills and Experience

Your skills and experience include:

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to interact at all business levels — from the CEO and C-suitethrough to technical SMEs, developers, testers,and project managers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to assess the audience and pitch / influence appropriately
• Working across enterprise technologies, including prior SME roles across infrastructure, cloud, and application domains
• Defining, documenting, and architecting solutions across hybrid, on-premise, and public cloud estates, potentially requiring integration with legacy technologies for large projects and programmes
• Supporting and…