Senior Solutions Architect

Alliance Healthcare UK; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to transform business requirements into effective designs. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders and technology vendors to create comprehensive solutions while ensuring adherence to enterprise architecture principles. The ideal candidate will possess a proactive attitude, exceptional analytical skills, and a strong ability to manage relationships. Join a forward-thinking team that values creativity and teamwork, and make a real difference in the healthcare sector with your expertise in architecture and technology.

Benefits

Generous bonus scheme

Pension contributions

Car allowance

25 days holiday increasing with service

Private health cover

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in large enterprises.
• Strong understanding of IT landscape and architecture frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable and sustainable solutions aligned with business goals.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and provide architectural guidance.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Commercial Awareness

Education

Degree in a relevant subject

Significant experience in Architecture teams

Tools

SAP S4

Azure

Salesforce

Job description

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Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!

Job Details

The Senior Solution Architect's role entails comprehending business requirements and converting them into well-suited designs that facilitate the achievement of intended business objectives. Collaborating closely with vital stakeholders, subject matter experts, and technology vendors to delineate the architecture for comprehensive solutions spanning the system portfolio, all while ensuring adherence to the strategic vision, roadmaps, and enterprise architectural principles.

This includes: -

• Ensuring that solutions are designed & developed are both scalable and sustainable.
• Making efficient and effective use of technology
• Looking holistically and identifying opportunities for synergy
• Considering the current and future needs of the Enterprise
  
  

Furthermore, this position carries the responsibility of actively participating in the broader enterprise architecture community, enhancing overall operational practices, and fostering the exchange of cross-functional expertise throughout the organization. It involves establishing and overseeing an AHUK solution architecture service aimed at providing designs for both strategic (roadmap) and tactical (project) needs across the business, in alignment with local candidate assessments and the delivery of technical design authority content.

Principal Accountabilities

• Solutions Design
• Develops high-level solution designs for programs or projects, leveraging expertise from domain specialists and third-party solution providers to ensure alignment with business needs, suitability, and supportability.
• Adopts a comprehensive approach to solution design, considering broader factors such as business strategic goals, future architectural vision, the existing IT landscape, and the IT portfolio plan.
• Provides high-level cost estimates to facilitate comparison of options and design recommendations.
• Seeks design approval from the Architecture Governance Forum.
• Stakeholder & Relationship Management
• Cultivates strong relationships with business stakeholders, gaining insight into their objectives and serving as a trusted advisor for technology decisions, effectively communicating architectural considerations.
• Collaborates with third-party solution providers to explore opportunities and assess their compatibility with our requirements.
• Engages with business stakeholders to evaluate the suitability of products and services based on functional and non-functional requirements, technology standards, and architectural principles.
• Demonstrates commercial awareness, working with technology vendors to comprehend their commercial models and decipher complex licensing agreements. Demonstrates commercial awareness, working with technology vendors to comprehend their commercial models and decipher complex licensing agreements.
• Effectively communicates design decisions and recommendations, along with their rationale, to both business and IT stakeholders.
• Application Portfolio & Enterprise Architecture Framework
• Ensures the management and maintenance of the application portfolio for Alliance Healthcare UK, integrating it into the broader context.
• Ensures that application, data, infrastructure requirements, as well as system interdependencies and integration needs, are identified, documented, and incorporated into the solution design.
• Operates within the guidelines of the Enterprise Architecture Framework and maintains the information within the Enterprise Architecture repository.
• Project Delivery
• Identifies potential project prerequisites or interdependencies, understands their implications, and communicates them to affected projects, aiming to minimize rigid dependencies between projects.
• Offers design governance during the project delivery phase to uphold the integrity of the solution design and facilitate the thorough evaluation of changes.
  
  

We offer a competitive salary, hybrid working, generous bonus scheme, pension contributions, car allowance, 25 days holiday increasing with service, private health cover and the opportunity to make a real difference.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience Required

• Proven experience working in IT across a range of roles
• Proven experience working as a Solution Architect
• Experience of working in a large enterprise with matrix management
• Degree in a relevant subject or evidence of significant experience in Architecture teams
• Experience working within a large international matrix managed organisation
• Knowledge of SAP S4, Azure, Manhattan, Salesforce and other leading Software providers
• Experience in the pharmaceutical, wholesale or logistics industry
• Multinational / Global organisation
• Use of Architecture tools and frameworks
  
  

Essential Requirements

• Demonstrates a proactive, can-do attitude and takes full accountability and ownership. Adaptable to a fast-paced environment, adept at managing competing priorities.
• Possesses exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities, adept at multitasking effectively.
• Excels under pressure, thrives in ambiguous situations while maintaining a steadfast focus on achieving results.
• Enthusiastically committed to delivering a consistently high standard of work.
• Exhibits strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Cultivates robust relationship-building and stakeholder management abilities.
• Demonstrates a knack for influencing effectively.
• Collaborates effectively within teams and values teamwork.
• Offers creative insights and contributes effectively to a team while being self-motivated and capable of taking initiative.
• Balances meticulous attention to detail with the commitment to see projects through to completion.
• Works seamlessly as part of an international team.
  
  

What Cencora offers

Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: Alliance Healthcare Management Services Limited

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [e-mail]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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