Vallum Associates
Solutions Architect
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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
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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 mindset.
- 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.
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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
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