Solution Architect

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Analysing business requirements and translating those requirements into a solution that achieves the stated business needs
• Create solution architectures and viewpoints that ensure Business, Data, Application and Technology viewpoints are aligned into a solution that will deliver the required capabilities to the organisation and our clients
• Analyse business drivers and identify corresponding change requirements and roadmap
• Design and lead the solution architecture based on business requirements
• Define principles to guide solution selection, design and implementation
• Lead and facilitate solution option analysis where appropriate
• Liaise with application and infrastructure projects to ensure solutions fit within those architectures
• Define solution patterns to provide solution implementation that are reusable and repeatable
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement sessions ensuring consensus and buy-in across all stakeholders is obtained and maintained throughout project lifecycle
• Creation of solution architecture viewpoints and principles, and advocate existing viewpoints and principles throughout the business
• Provide consultancy to other business areas and clients
• Facilitate IT cost inputs into wider commercial models
• Maintain knowledge of industry direction, best practice and standard

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in a Business, Infrastructure, Technology & Solution Architect role
• Experience working with, and designing solutions across, a range of technologies and specialisms
• Experience in some of: VMware, Citrix, Cloud Storage, RHEL, migration tools, data replication tools (zerto etc.), mainframe systems, core Microsoft Products (AD, SQL Server, App-V/VDI, Hyper-V)
• Experience in the following areas would be advantageous: Digital integrations using API / SOA / Awareness of TOGAF and Archimate methodologies / Experience of architecting solutions within the cloud (AWS / Azure) / Automation / RPA methods and technologies / Enterprise scale telephony (Genesys / Avaya)
• Strong communication skills and able to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels within the organisation
• Experience of designing solutions delivered from cloud services
• Problem solver able to assess a wide range of requirements and constraints and identify the most appropriate target solution aligned to the organisation’s enterprise architecture roadmap
• Business & Technology minded and able to quickly learn and adapt to business and requirements change, new technologies, applications and infrastructures

About Capita Technology and Software Solutions

Capita Technology and Software Solutions (TSS) is a 5000 people strong global shared service, responsible for delivering innovation and digital transformation for Capita’s colleagues, businesses, and clients. 

We design, build, and run the right technical competencies and partnerships to enable Capita to deliver seamless public and customer services – from working collaboratively with Capita’s businesses to shape the right technology and software solutions to take to market, to ensuring colleagues have access to resilient, predictable IT services and support, which enables them to work effectively and securely.

What’s in it for you:

• Home working
• A competitive basic salary
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• company matched pension, life assurance, fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel, and technology
• the opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

What we hope you'll do next:

Choose 'Apply now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We’re an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you’d like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email Iqbal at reasonableadjustments@capita.com or call 07784 237318 and we’ll get back to you. For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website.