Solution Architect

at  RollsRoyce

DERBY

Why Rolls-Royce?
Civil Aerospace are developing their next generation Digital products, leveraging Big Data and Cloud technologies to enhance and acceleration our Digital Twin capabilities. We are looking for an Solution Architect to join our growing Civil Solution Development organisation. This role will play a pivotal part in shaping the technology and architecture in our Digital Twin portfolio. You are passionate about application architecture and love to use your experience with technology to evangelise the benefits to both technical and non-technical communities.
As a Solution Architect you will be responsible for owning solution designs and content. You will be responsible for architectures across a wide variety of Digital Twin applications, predominantly using Microsoft Azure Technologies as part of our Big Data Platform. Working closely with assurance and security colleagues, you’ll ensure all architectures and designs are compliant, ensuring we can maintain our trusted relationship with our customers.
Work with us and we’ll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.
At Rolls-Royce, we pioneer the power that matters to our customers, to society and to the planet.
Every great product needs a great business behind it. Our work is complex, innovative, highly challenging and rewarding, and it takes a range of professionals to do it. Having the right people means we can deliver excellence to our customers and pioneer the power that matters.
We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These values form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• We always aim to release value quickly into our business, so we’re looking for someone with experience of doing this.
• Finding the right balance between pace of delivery, quality, technical debt and cost is challenging. We’re looking for someone with strong experience doing this.
• We’re a growing internal software DevOps team, but we also work with software suppliers in the UK and offshore. We’re looking for someone with strong experience working with a mix of software teams like these.
• We aim to achieve 100% automation in Continuous Integration and Delivery. We’re looking for an individual who is passionate about automation and experienced in CICD.
• Our design ethos is focussed on Microsoft Cloud First, so we’re looking for an individual with a passion to build strong relationships with Microsoft, experienced in working with PaaS and SaaS.
• We’re committed to ensuring our teams can be autonomous and accountable for building and running their products. Technologies such as microservices and containerisation play a big part in this, so we’re looking for someone with experience in modern software practices such as these
• Our Digital Twin products are part of our next generation Intelligent Engine platform. We’re excited to see the benefits this platform will bring to the business. You’ll be a big part of shaping our designs for this platform, so we’re looking for someone with experience of Big Data Platform design.
• Building a capable, engaged workforce is critical to effective delivery. We’re looking for team players, who enjoy supporting, mentoring and encouraging less experienced members of the DevOps team.
• You’ll bring a business-centric mindset, with experience considering delivery, cost and quality and always seeking to understand the value of our solutions. Working closely with our teams, you’ll be able to translate this business knowledge into working solutions.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse team and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Drawing on your passion and energy, evangelise the impact Digital technology can make within Rolls-Royce
• Provide extensive hands on architecture and technical leadership to support application design and delivery.
• Take ownership of all aspects of application architecture within the Civil Digital Twins product portfolio, considering, in line with architectural and security standards, reference architectures and enterprise road maps.
• Form a close working relationship with other architects and security teams within Rolls-Royce to share best practice and continually learn.
• Form a strong and trusted relationship with agile DevOps teams, providing technical guidance and thought leadership during continuous delivery
• To be the “brain” and see the entire Digital Twin picture enabling exploitation of data and services across the organisation to more effectively model and simulate our Fleet and Business.
• To converse directly or facilitate engagements with business communities to better understand business drivers for content development.
• Help to shape our Digital platform road maps ensuring your experience supports and enhances decisions made relating to the platform.
• Stay current with your understanding of the fast-changing technology market and ensure architectures align with current best practices.
• To recruit, encourage, inspire and develop our people, helping them to be at their best.

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These values form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• We always aim to release value quickly into our business, so we’re looking for someone with experience of doing this.
• Finding the right balance between pace of delivery, quality, technical debt and cost is challenging. We’re looking for someone with strong experience doing this.
• We’re a growing internal software DevOps team, but we also work with software suppliers in the UK and offshore. We’re looking for someone with strong experience working with a mix of software teams like these.
• We aim to achieve 100% automation in Continuous Integration and Delivery. We’re looking for an individual who is passionate about automation and experienced in CICD.
• Our design ethos is focussed on Microsoft Cloud First, so we’re looking for an individual with a passion to build strong relationships with Microsoft, experienced in working with PaaS and SaaS.
• We’re committed to ensuring our teams can be autonomous and accountable for building and running their products. Technologies such as microservices and containerisation play a big part in this, so we’re looking for someone with experience in modern software practices such as these
• Our Digital Twin products are part of our next generation Intelligent Engine platform. We’re excited to see the benefits this platform will bring to the business. You’ll be a big part of shaping our designs for this platform, so we’re looking for someone with experience of Big Data Platform design.
• Building a capable, engaged workforce is critical to effective delivery. We’re looking for team players, who enjoy supporting, mentoring and encouraging less experienced members of the DevOps team.
• You’ll bring a business-centric mindset, with experience considering delivery, cost and quality and always seeking to understand the value of our solutions. Working closely with our teams, you’ll be able to translate this business knowledge into working solutions