Junior Solution Architect

at  RNLI

Salary
Grade F
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Location
Poole, Dorset, England
Closing Date
10-10-2024
Reference
18124
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INTERNAL VACANCY

The RNLI actively promotes continuous development within the organisation and is only seeking applications from current RNLI employees and volunteers at this time. If this position is not filled internally it may be re-advertised openly. #LI-DNI

ABOUT US

We are looking for a current RNLI employee or volunteer who knows the organisation well, to use their transferrable skill set in an exciting new opportunity as a Junior Solution Architect within our Enterprise Architecture team.
In this creative role you will be supported to learn the role of a Solution Architect. Using your existing knowledge of RNLI people and teams, volunteers and staff, and the systems we use, you will help to create a vision of the solution that is being worked towards for specific projects, and then help the project stay on track to achieve that vision.
The role contributes to saving lives at sea by ensuring that information technology solutions and programmes across the organisation are suitably architected, designed and co-ordinated to deliver the RNLI’s core purpose through education, influence, supervision and rescue.

As Junior Solution Architect, you will be responsible for supporting the appropriate architecture and design of end-to-end solutions and ensuring their alignment to strategic enterprise and business architectures. This is a specialist role that involves defining solutions for change in the context of the wider enterprise architecture, and helping to develop supporting roadmaps.

As a Junior Solution Architect, with guidance and overarching support from the Lead Solution Architect, you will:

• Produce and lead the solution architecture for RNLI systems in response to technology and business-led demand, creating Solution Concepts that give a high level view of the target solution across business, data, application and technology to provide an anchor for subsequent design and development. Involved from the beginning of change initiatives in requirements discovery and review to formulate Solution Concepts and then work with the design team to ensure the detailed design conforms to the high level solution design, managing changes where these are necessary. Following through to implementation and delivery to check that the delivered solution conforms to the concept.
• Ensure that the Solution Concepts adhere to the High Level Architecture Principles, or provide valid justifications where deviations or compromises are required.
• Where required, develop interim solution roadmaps to support stepped transition to the target solution.
• Identify and log exceptions and additions to domain standards during the course of solution design and development.
• Ensure that agreed deviations from the Solution Concept in design are recorded as technical debt and assigned for ongoing ownership to the relevant Domain Architect.
• Support Domain Architects in the creation and maintenance of roadmaps for the technology platforms and technologies in their portfolios, assisting in making decisions on the retention, elimination, replacement of or investment in existing applications and infrastructure.
• Participate in the Architecture Review Board and Technical Implementation Governance activities to submit Solution Concepts for review and approval of associated technical designs, supporting Domain Architects to ensure the conformance of developed solutions to the relevant domain roadmaps and overall Enterprise Architecture direction.