Key Requirements

• Significant experience designing and delivering enterprise GIS and geospatial solutions within complex digital environments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, including distributed systems, microservices, event-driven and serverless architectures.
• Experience designing cloud-native solutions using AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong knowledge of GIS platforms, spatial data management and open-source geospatial technologies, including tools such as PostGIS, GeoServer, QGIS, Leaflet, OpenLayers or similar.
• Experience integrating geospatial services and APIs into enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, security, scalability and non-functional requirements.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership to engineering teams.

Desirable Skills

• Experience working within a consultancy environment, supporting multiple clients and projects.
• Experience delivering solutions within the UK public sector.
• Knowledge of Digital Service Standard, Technology Code of Practice and Government Digital Service (GDS) principles.
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or Jenkins.
• Familiarity with enterprise GIS platforms such as Esri ArcGIS Enterprise alongside open-source geospatial ecosystems.
• Experience defining technical roadmaps, architectural governance and technology strategy.
• Professional certifications in cloud platforms, enterprise architecture or GIS technologies.

Culture

Senior colleagues, experts, and leaders at Informed Solutions are committed to supporting, coaching, upskilling, and enabling the success and career progression of each other. There are some foundation areas, however, which you need to possess to be able to successfully contribute to your team and work alongside others.

Key abilities that are necessary for success:

• Able to work effectively in environments where you can adapt to innovative practices involving uncertainty, change, and agile working.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and your time so you can deliver high-quality work within deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to respect and accept different perspectives and disagreement, work collaboratively in diverse teams, and maintain positive working relationships.
• Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments where uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk must be collaboratively managed by working supportively alongside others.
• Good communication skills, including clear, constructive written outputs and measured, respectful verbal delivery.

We work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving innovation and problem-solving workplace environment where no two days are the same. This requires you to have the foundations of personal resilience, professional adaptability, and flexibility in working alongside others with a positive mindset.

We appreciate that this workplace culture and the level of variety won’t suit everyone. However, after significant consultations with colleagues at all levels, we understand that these are the fundamentals of success in undertaking the complex, innovation work which is the DNA of Informed Solutions.

These shared foundations are important to team cohesion, performance, and mutual personal support. As colleagues, we thrive in successfully problem solving together to deliver real-world impact; and value the variety of challenges and opportunities to learn, grow, and progress on a personal and professional level.

Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme*
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian. We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times. We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important. Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.