IT Solution Architect

BOOTS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in London is seeking a Solution Architect to join their Business Services Technology team. The role involves leading end-to-end solution designs while collaborating with internal and external teams to ensure alignment with business requirements. Candidates should have strong experience in IT solutions development and a passion for technology trends. Flexible working options are available.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Flexible benefits scheme

24/7 counselling support

Qualifications

• Experience in leading end-to-end solution design / being the technical lead with multiple partners.
• A broad and balanced understanding of IT capabilities, methods and technologies.
• In-depth experience of the development of IT solutions.
• Passion for keeping up with IT trends.

Responsibilities

• Assess business ideas and scoping projects.
• Support the Enterprise Architecture in outline designs.
• Produce end-to-end solution designs and documentation.
• Provide ad-hoc technical/administrative support.

Skills

Experience in leading end-to-end solution design

Broad understanding of IT capabilities

In-depth experience of IT solutions development

Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA

Knowledge of Public Cloud technologies

Job description

About the role

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our Business Services Technology team, reporting to the Business Technology Manager for Business Services.

As a Solution Architect, you will collaborate with internal and external teams to understand requirements and create suitable high-level designs. You will review detailed designs from partners and test the conformance of the implementation to the business requirements, agreed design standards, design deliverables and delivery approach observing architecture principles and guidelines.

You'll be joining the team at an exciting time for Business Services as there are several key transformational projects that are due to commence.

Key responsibilities

• Assessment of business ideas
• • Support assessment of business ideas, project scoping, feasibility analysis (systems-based or other), and presenting options fitting within either a strategic lens or a tactical lens.
  • Apply current technology, tools and techniques according to established standard practices.
  • Assist with the investigation and cataloguing of functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring they align to the outline design and agreed scope.
  • Challenging, where relevant, to ensure the requirements align to a 'value' driven approach.
  • Provide ad-hoc technical/administrative support and creation of business applications.

• End-to-end solution design
• • Support the Enterprise Architecture in the development of the outline designs.
  • Being accountable for being the hands-on lead throughout the project life cycle, ensures:
    • Produce end to end solution designs and documentation.
    • All solution designs meet agreed business requirements, align with strategy and architecture, it is cost effective, deliverable and supportable.
    • Supervise and review detailed designs produced by other resources, partners and third parties to ensure build and test deliver agreed levels of quality assurance.
    • Technical leadership and assumes overall design accountability within a project to ensure.

You will have no line management duties.

What you\'ll need to have

• Experience in leading end-to-end solution design / being the technical lead with multiple partners.
• A broad and balanced understanding of IT capabilities, methods and technologies
• In-depth experience of the development of IT solutions
• Passion for keeping up with IT trends
• Knowledge of processes in relevant departments (e.g. Finance, HR, Ecommerce, Product Development)

It would be great if you also have

These are desirable skills or experience and are not essential, so we would welcome applications from candidates that don\'t match this additional criteria.

• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA
• Public Cloud technologies - Azure Cloud. Full range of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS products including Azure App services, Azure database technologies.

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

What\'s next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

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