Job Description

As the Solution Architect based in London you will be responsible for 3 primary aspects:

• The technical architecture that underpins the solutions within the Building and Asset Information programme. These solutions are predominantly COTS applications exchanging data within a common data environment, but some in-house local applications are also required.
• Determine the most suitable technical environments for the procurement and building of those solutions in conjunction with the Architecture group and ensuring this is clear in any software tender needed to procure 3rd party software
• Ensure adherence to standards of technical best practice

The Solution Architect will also be involved in:

• Designing the solution in collaboration with the developers, data modellers, product management and the business
• Ensuring each user story is looked at from multiple technical perspectives: data, UI, middleware, application and other non-functional needs
• Identifying and managing technical risk and technical debt
• Controlling the technical configuration of the solution
• Owning the ongoing assessment of the technical and operational feasibility of the solution and manage the technical aspects of the solution's transition into live use
• Provide coaching on agile software development and oversee agile principles and values in order to help the team identify, interpret and deliver the customer requirements.
• Promoting the use of short, informal requirements modelling sessions throughout each iteration to identify the feature-driven detail (Given/When/Then)

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The successful solution Architect skills and experience: Must have direct experience working as a Solutions Architect, and familiar with standard industry methods tools and processes to support an architecture function Must be able to demonstrate good solution design and documentation abilities Experience of solutioning across Cloud and hybrid Cloud / On-Prem architecture Must have direct experience of translating business strategies into architectural requirements; collaborating with the business to improve options Knowledge of application development architectures, tools, technology frameworks and security principles; Specialist technical knowledge in some of the following areas: MS Azure, .Net, C#, Microsoft tool set Systems integration & interfaces (APIs/SOA/ ESB/XML/Java/J2EE or similar Common data & Shared services environments Familiarity with DevOps and Test environment Certified scrum master/scrum practitioner is desirable Experience of software procurement is highly desirable, particularly OJEU Business knowledge of Building Information Modelling, Building Information Management, Enterprise Asset Management is highly desirable