Solution Architect - IT Infrastructure

BOOTS; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Solution Architect - IT Infrastructure

Location: Nottingham

Contract: Perm

Recruiter: Noaman Hussain

About the role

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join Technology Services at Boots Nottingham Support Office. Reporting to the Lead Solution Architect, your role will be to produce IT infrastructure high-level designs and proposals in response to internal customer requests and project demands. You will ensure customer requirements are understood and then work with the wider Architect community, service owners and subject matter experts to deliver cost-effective, supportable end-to-end high-level designs, following enterprise strategy, roadmaps, standards, security and service capability.

Main Responsibilities

• Produce high-level designs, concentrating on the consumption on existing platforms and services. Working to make sure the agreed business requirements and desired outcomes are achieved in-line with strategy and architecture, are cost-effective, deliverable and supportable.
• Ensure high-level designs are understood by everyone in the project team, including managed service partners who produce low-level designs and complete builds.
• Provide technical consultancy and leadership throughout the whole project life cycle. During construction, if issues are encountered, work with the project manager and build teams to formulate alternative approaches and mitigation plans to keep delivery goals on track.
• Present at governance bodies, for the approval of high-level designs, along with quality assurance in divisional and broader group IT governance.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of design patterns, standards, and design blocks to facilitate wider consistency and promote re-use of design elements, delivery at pace, quality assurance and cost efficiencies.

What you'll need to have

• Broad knowledge and experience of solution areas including infrastructure, transformation and migration, security, business analysis, applications, integration, service management and understands how all of these interact to arrive to an end-to-end solution.
• Ability to understand the business, commercial and technical requirements to write clear and concise technical high-level designs is vital.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills are essential. You will need to have experience leading workshops and reduce complex ideas to simple terms and express rationale for decision-making to both a technical and non-technical audience.
• Experience with complex projects and programmes, requiring highly available, disaster recovery and business continuity compliant systems in a large international enterprise.

Technical Skills

This is not a hands-on engineering role, but a technical understanding and functional experience in any three of these areas is desirable:

• Azure Cloud technologies
• Microsoft Enterprise product suite including VDI solution and mobile device management
• Network solutions
• Server infrastructure including Windows and Linux operating systems
• Databases platforms
• SAP infrastructure
• Security solutions

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.