Solution Architect

Placed: 30/11/17
Region: West Midlands
Location: Birmingham
Category: Jobs


Content of the advertisement:

Solution Architect, Birmingham, £60,000-65,000 pa

My prestigious client in Birmingham is looking for a Solution Architect to join their Architecture and Design team on permanent basis.

Job purpose:

You will evolve and design innovative business and technical solutions to allow the firm to grow and operate efficiently, and so deliver a great service to its clients. The role is more applications rather than infrastructure focussed.

Main responsibilities:

* You will work across various business and technology areas of the firm and be responsible for understanding the strategy across the business process areas and enterprise on the capabilities provided and translate these into an architecture plan

* You will develop and maintain strategic visions (3 to 5 years) and roadmaps (1 to 3 years) for agreed areas and/or segments of the firm

* Working with Business Analysts, you will add business or risk driven ideas to the IT Project pipeline list (1 to 18 months) and create Vision summaries for these

* Once approved Visions have been initiated into projects, you will work with the BA's and others to create 'High Level Solution Designs' (HLSD's)

* There will be occasional travel in the UK, some international travel is plausible

Your experience and skills:

* Drawing architectural diagrams e.g. in Visio / PowerPoint

* Microsoft technologies and solutions (desktops and servers) * Client facing / Remote working / Mobile / Cloud solutions * Working with professional services applications / workflow solutions * Knowledge of business process design and improvement in Finance Systems, ideally in professional service organisations * Ideally a good knowledge of infrastructure and experience in developing integrated solutions involving process, data and technology * Ideally exposure to a variety of development methodologies Please do not hesitate to apply

Price / Salary: £60000 - £65000/annum