Solutions Architect
Posted Today by Nuclear Waste Services
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Summary: This Solutions Architect role involves both technical responsibilities and stakeholder engagement, focusing on the design, setup, and deployment of new IT solutions. The position requires collaboration with internal and external service providers to transition projects into live services while ensuring alignment with business needs. The role emphasizes the evaluation of IT solutions and the production of high-quality technical documentation. Candidates should possess strong technical infrastructure knowledge, particularly in Microsoft Azure and M365, and demonstrate excellent relationship management skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide support and guidance for emerging projects, taking responsibility for overall system architecture.
- Work with business analysts to elicit business requirements and ensure technical solutions meet business needs.
- Guide the selection of IT solutions, evaluating impacts on the business such as costs and training.
- Design solutions and ensure quality assurance through high-quality technical documentation.
- Contribute to the development of architecture standards and best practices.
- Liaise with project and operational support teams, both internal and external.
- Provide proof of concept or prototyped solutions in a Microsoft Ecosystem and assist operational teams.
- Stay updated on new and emerging technologies and solutions.
Key Skills:
- Understanding of business drivers and strategy.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical architecture requirements.
- Quick comprehension of new technologies' functions and capabilities.
- Strong understanding of technical infrastructure and public cloud services, especially Microsoft Azure and M365.
- Hands-on experience with design and deployment using the latest cloud techniques.
- High energy and drive for results with strong prioritization skills.
- Excellent relationship building and senior stakeholder management abilities.
- Experience in regulated environments.
- Ability to hold UK Baseline Clearance (BPSS).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Warrington
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
About the Role
In addition to the technical aspects of this role, this position will also include stakeholder meetings with both internal and external service providers. It is expected that role will encompass the initial design setup and deployment of new solutions followed by the transition to live services with members of the operational support team.
Responsibilities
- Provide support and guidance for emerging projects, taking responsibility for overall system architecture.
- Work with business analyst and/or elicit business requirements to ensure the technical solution meets the business need and can be delivered on the chosen architecture.
- Provide guidance on the selection of IT solutions (software and hardware) for projects, being able to evaluate the potential impacts on the business such as license costs, phasing out of legacy systems, training etc.
- Solution Design and Quality Assurance.
- Production of high-quality technical documentation covering the setup and implementation of design patterns.
- Contribute to the development of architecture standards, best practices and organisational capability.
- Liaise with project and operational support teams, both internal and external.
- Provide proof of concept or prototyped solutions where applicable in a typically Microsoft Ecosystem (M365, Azure, Power Platform), and provide expert technical assistance to operational teams.
- Horizon scanning for new and emerging technologies and solutions.
- Keep up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies.
Qualifications
- Understand the business, business drivers, and business strategy.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical and service architecture requirements.
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
- Strong understanding of technical infrastructure, with strong practical experience of public cloud services (specifically Microsoft Azure, M365).
- Comfortable with design and deployment, leveraging latest cloud techniques / technologies (very much a hands-on role).
- High level of energy and drive for results - able to prioritise and work with rigour to a high quality.
- Tenacious and consistently delivers what they say that they will do.
- Excellent relationship building, senior stakeholder management and the ability to work collaboratively to deliver the required outcomes.
- Experience of regulated environments.
- Ability to hold a minimum of UK Baseline Clearance (BPSS).
Remote / work from home primarily with occasional travel.
Pay range and compensation package
This role will be onboarded and payrolled via our agency provider Alexander Mann Solutions. Recruitment will be conducted via the NWS Talent Acquisition team but once the successful candidate has been identified, the agency provider will be in touch to commence onboarding and agree next steps. There are two payroll options via our agency provider which is PAYE (Pay as you Earn) or Umbrella Company.