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Bradford, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Lead Solutions Architect
Leeds/Bradford & Homeworking
Up to £95,000 + Benefits
Your new role
Undertake Lead Architect role on significant programmes of work providing clear leadership and direction.
Assemble teams of architects to undertake work within their respective domains, eg, Applications, Technology, Infrastructure, and provide overall assurance of the work.
Provide key linkage into Enterprise Architecture, ensuring departments are aligned on strategy and driving towards the same goal.
Take a proactive approach towards assessment of external technology trends ensuring that implications on the business/technology strategy are fully understood.
Own strategic relationships within the business ensuring their needs are understood and where relevant, translated into viable architectures.
Ensure architecture strikes the right balance between optimal and achievable, delivering both benefit and value in equal measure.
Develop relationships with 3rd parties for burst capability, quality assurance and market research purposes.
Form trusted relationships with delivery teams ensuring development is carried out in alignment with as-stated architecture. Ensure governance process is in place to manage quality stage gates.
Responsibilities
Form the shape and membership of Solutions Architect team with accountability for managing a team of Solution Architects covering one of, Applications, Security and Infrastructure.
Drive the vision and roadmap for Solutions Architecture, ensuring the operating model is fit for purpose.
Acquire staff for the department, directly recruiting Architects based on assessments of gaps and succession planning.
Identify and support the personal development needs of all direct reports, providing continuous leadership and coaching.
Embed architectural “best practice” within the team to establish consistent governance through structured methodology (eg, TOGAF) to establish architectural artefacts, capability models, strategy maps, etc.
Documenting historical architecture to provide an accurate as-is representation of the groups systems landscape.
Identification of “technical debt,” duplication, opportunity and redundancy within the current systems landscape.
Documenting to-be systems landscape diagram based on outputs from Enterprise Architecture and the AMP Business Plan.
Responding to ad-hoc requests for architecture work, providing expert-level advice and producing artefacts that represent options available to the business.
Delivery of “strategy maps” to demonstrate future direction for each licenced technology. Alignment of IT solution strategy with business strategy through enduring relationships.
Handing over architecture to development teams ensuring that delivery conforms to specifications and adheres to agreed quality gates.
Experience needed
Leading large-scale architecture teams to achieve a common goal.
Assembling teams to address specific architectural problems.
Definition of methodologies to identify and mitigate “technical debt.”
Undertaking complex architectural challenges working both at an individual and team level.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at the highest levels in organisations.
Real-life experience of architectural methodologies with ability to identify what is relevant for each given scenario.
Ability to both form (recruit) and establish an architectural function from the ground up.
Production of high quality, visually engaging architectural work that is simple to understand.
What you need to do now
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