Venn Group
Solution Architect
Recruitment Agency Reference: 7074300
London
£600-700 per day (Umbrella)
SC Clearance required
A position has arisen for a Solution Architect within a leading Defence organisation in London. This is a 6-month contract with the possibility of extension thereafter.
Responsibilities:
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Understand emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
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Provide, either directly or by commissioning, deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to help the Architecture and Service Design Board to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
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Manage and develop the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative.
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Provide consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
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Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
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Contribute to the Enterprise Architecture of the MPS. Improve and extend the artefacts within the architecture
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Improve the architecture alignment of programmes under their supervision and reduce technology risk
Advantageous candidate experience:
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Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, public cloud infrastructure network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development, data architecture and management analytics.
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Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments
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Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
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Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
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Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.
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Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
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Understanding and knowledge of IT standards and controls.
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Excellent understanding of application development methodologies, DevOps and infrastructure and network architecture.
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Knowledge of security in depth within scope of relevant technologies.
Please note: candidates will need to satisfy security criteria.
If you are interested in this position or would like to find out more about similar roles please contact Dom Vieten on 0117 284 0035 and email your updated CV to dvieten@venngroup.com
Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.