THE PERSON

We are looking for a highly engaging and customer-focused professional who possesses an enthusiasm for working within the largest University in the UK. Good engagement, collaboration and influencing skills are a must to ensure alignment with the business, and gain support from stakeholders across the university for our strategic solutions. You’ll have good technical skills, knowledge and experience gained across a range of applications, technologies and data. As a great communicator, you’ll be able to use your experience to help others, giving guidance and support to a diverse range of people in realizing and implementing solutions. You’ll be comfortable working within a complex, heavily integrated system landscape. Experience with TOGAF, SAFe or other architectural frameworks would also be desirable.

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As an equal-opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
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As a Solution Architect, you will be instrumental in translating business requirements and ITS strategy into quality designs. Your key responsibility will be overseeing design quality by guiding projects and programmes from conception to implementation, creating and maintaining high and low-level designs, and working with our Technical Design Authority to ensure good governance. You’ll be working across a breadth of IT disciplines, ensuring diverse challenges are met with innovative, adaptable solutions. Collaborating with Engineering teams, suppliers, and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, you’ll use structured processes and governance to evolve and refine designs, ensuring they are fit for purpose and deliver the best outcomes for the University.