Solutions Architect

The Company:

A rapidly expanding, highly specialised Financial Services business with offices across Europe. They are currently enjoying a period of sustained growth and as a result, managing several change projects across the business to gear up its offering, it's systems, procedures and partnerships.

A strong, growing business with a supportive ethos and family feel.

Offering all employee's hybrid working terms with an expectation that one day per week will be office based.

The Role:

The Solutions Architect will manage projects and changes from inception to delivery from a technical perspective, working alongside the wider project team to deliver complete solutions.

The role will involve engaging with internal teams and senior management to gather requirements and draft technical solution specifications. Then working with the internal teams, external vendors, and partners to deliver the end solution.

Main Responsibilities & Duties:

Technical Project Management

• The Solutions Architect will be responsible for the full end to end management and delivery of the project from a technical perspective, generally working alongside a business project manager to deliver the wider full end to end solution.
• Drive the requirements gathering for projects, ensuring all business area needs are captured, clear and understood.
• Create/Participate in the creation of project plans and ensuring realistic timelines are set, using Microsoft Project, Kanban and other tools.
• Creation of detailed specifications (both technical and functional) for use internally and working with third party vendors. Ensuring the specifications are fully understood.
• Support the build and test cycle teams wherever necessary to ensure timelines are adhered to and output is of high quality.
• Host end of sprint demo’s for stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Aid in managing change and scope creep within the project.
• Ensure acceptance into service processes are followed, following the release of a project into production.
• Run or support project closedown and lesson learned activities.
• Key KPI’s for this role will be measured on project delivery to time, budget, and quality.

Day to Day

• Alongside managing projects the Solutions Architect will also be expected to manage small/medium changes through to completion, working with a scaled down project framework model.
• Some helpdesk support may be required to triage tickets and assign them to appropriate resolver groups.
• Some technical development may be required to support in house applications.
• Some research and development may be required to explore new technologies and solutions.

• Proven experience of being involved in complex technical projects, preferably from a software development background.
• An advanced understanding of modern website architecture, web API’s and MSSQL database design essential.
• Experience in Microsoft .Net technologies required.
• Experience with data migration projects an advantage but not essential.
• Ability to understand complex technical processes and create pragmatic solutions is critical to success in this position.
• A great communicator with the ability to communicate complex technical solutions and concepts to peers and management level colleagues.
• Strong interpersonal skills enabling the ability to comfortably communicate with senior business leaders, external 3rd party vendors and the wider internal team.
• Proactive and enthusiastic in learning and seeking out new technologies.
• Experience working within the full end to end project life cycle.
• A motivated individual that has sound judgement.