Solution Architect

• Provides a consistent set of application product architecture views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders.
• Solution communication champion, making the complex simple to understand.
• Supporting delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (leadership and communication) skills.
• Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
• Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high-risk issues, or delivering architecture design.
• Ensure that architecture design artefacts are produced to agreed quality standards and timescales and presented effectively at governance forums.

• To ensure compliance of design with approved design in the Digital Blueprint o Ensure technical quality and adherence of Product designs to the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps o Engage with Domain and Lead Solution Architects and engineers to implement solutions according to agreed and approved designs o Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt

• To maintain Product roadmaps and help maintain the Digital Blueprint o Be accountable for product architecture, contribute to product roadmaps, in alignment with engineering o Identify, capture, iterate and implement architecture patterns

• To contribute to, and build capability in, the Architecture community o Sharing best practice and reference architectures o Participate/Support development of the Architecture Community of Practice

• Significant Architecture experience
• Government/Public client experience
• Analytics & Reporting: Data warehousing, data lakes, Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice.
• Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.
• Architecture design informed through the use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards.
• AWS Solution expertise and relevant certification - EMR/Spark (Hadoop)/AWS/Data Modelling-Mapping/GitHub/GitLab

Technologies -

• Azure
• AWS
• Power BI

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world’s most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.