Senior Solutions Architect

Senior Solutions Architect

Duration: 26 weeks

Agency Reference: 7079400
Location: Reading

A position has arisen for a Senior Solutions Architect within a leading telecommunications provider based in Reading. You will be joining the Technology Architecture team, which is responsible for application security design, architecture, engineering and testing within a project capacity. The successful candidate must have experience developing or designing Remedy from the backend.

Your duties will include:

• Planning the timelines for the provision of Solution Architecture artefacts to the project

• Signing off requirements with the Business Analyst as well as carrying out requirements management and scope assessments based on technical and budget constraints

• Inputs into the estimation process during the Startup and Definition stages of projects Identifying the scope and scale of the change needed to satisfy the project requirements

• Work closely with the Business User to ensure all requirements are designed and meet their expectation within the toolset

• Present detail design documents back to the Remedy Development Team ensuring Architecture acceptance is achieved, highlighting standards, reuse and alignment of solutions

• Producing and owning the Detailed Solution Design Document which will be the reference document for the technical implementation

• Alignment of the Technical Solution with project requirements including definition of project phasing and work package breakdown

• Review the deliverables produced by the internal and/or external development teams for their projects. Validates the technical specifications produced by the development teams against the solution design

• Works with Service Transition on the deployment plans and the non-functional requirements for the solution, this will generally require demonstrations to be run by the candidate

• Adhere to guidelines established by (Enterprise) Architecture, Operations, and Information Security for all solutions

Required Skills & Experience:

• Detailed knowledge of BMC Remedy ARS and associated components

• Good knowledge of software principles and design experience within relevant platforms

• Experience in design (preferable development as well) of BMC Remedy, CMDB and Integration of a bespoke application

• Impact Model delivery within a toolset such a Remedy understating resilience and weightings

• CMDB Data source discovery and population, using discovery datasets and reconciliation

• Practical knowledge of a Product Calalog and its use within ITIL and Remedy

• Past experience of two way integrations between Remedy and other systems such as event management, device management and third party ticketing systems

• Understanding of development methodology and software development