Technical Solution Architect

at  Informed Solutions

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.
You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.
At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.
We are seeking experienced Technical Solution Architecture specialists to join our engineering discipline. As a Technical Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal role in our delivery teams by shaping solutions to meet clients’ needs, aligning with their technology strategies, and championing technical best practices.

ABOUT US

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

REQUIREMENTS

As a Technical Solution Architect at Informed you will have:

• Experience and understanding of architecture patterns and concepts for enterprise-scale solutions (e.g., accounting for Integration, Security, Scalability considerations).
• Experience collaborating with client technical stakeholders to define and agree solution architectures capable of meeting business and user needs.
• An unbiased and independent perspective on technology stacks used to deliver a particular solution.
• A proven track record in leading collaborative design and decision-making with clients.
• Intimate knowledge of architecting modern, innovative digital services.
• Demonstrated capability working with cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Background in Agile delivery environments, delivering software solutions in controlled increments (e.g., following Scrum, Agile Delivery phases, GDS Service Manual, etc.) and collaborating with team members from other disciplines (User Research, Business Analysis, Engineering, Testing etc.).
• Understanding of modern programming languages, distributed system architectures (e.g., microservices), cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines.

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Skilled in working with architectures that involve legacy systems integration and/or modernisation.
• Experience developing transitional architecture roadmaps for proposed solutions.
• Capability designing and implementing architectures that operationalise data science and Machine Learning components.
• Expertise in evaluating existing solutions using structured assessment frameworks (e.g., AWS Well Architected Framework) to proactively identify improvements.
• Hands-on knowledge of designing and implementing software architectures capable of handling sensitive data (e.g., Personally Identifiable Information or payment information).
• Commercial awareness with ability to balance trade-offs where necessary to ensure a successful delivery.
• Ability to deliver as part of multiple projects, concurrently across multiple teams.
• Domain-relevant professional accreditations/certifications at an advanced level.
• Awareness of the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice.

Please refer the Job description for details