Solutions Architect

Reply; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing consulting firm in the UK seeks a Solution Architect to deliver architecture-led solutions for Financial Services clients. You will be responsible for aligning business objectives with architecture solutions, utilizing your expertise in cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure. The ideal candidate has a strong background in solution architecture and stakeholder engagement, with a focus on delivering quality outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• Ability to create and own Solution Architectures.
• Proven design capabilities in various architectural types.
• Experience in presenting solutions to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality IT Enterprise/Solution Architecture.
• Work with clients to ensure correct IT solutions are in place.
• Take responsibility for solution architecture through the project lifecycle.

Skills

Solution Architecture

High level Designs

Stakeholder influencing

Software development lifecycle

Agile practices

Cloud technologies (AWS/Azure)

Data Architecture

Job description

Affinity is the new, high-growth specialist consulting company in Reply, dedicated to driving Next Gen Architecture, Data Driven Enablement, and Future Transformations. We distinguish ourselves by fostering robust and trusted relationships with our clients, ensuring the successful delivery of their desired outcomes through our proactive and insightful approach

Role Overview

As a Solution Architect working with Financial Services clients, you’ll play a key role in delivering architecture-led solutions (Cloud, Hybrid, or On-Premise), and covering the spectrum of architecture domains to our clients. You will facilitate the alignment of goals and objectives with decisions regarding all layers of the solutions, Business, Information, Application and Technology.

You will be developing solution designs using a repeatable approach, to deliver the desired business outcome. You will be working on own or part of a team delivering a contractual solution, providing expert client-side consultancy, mentoring, design authority, project delivery or acting as a “trusted advisor” and / or “subject matter expert” to clients and internal teams alike.

Responsibilities

• Deliver class leading IT Enterprise / Solution Architecture & high quality consulting within Financial Services.
• Realise business outcomes by leveraging architecture & technology.
• Work with both the business and IT to ensure that the correct solutions are in place to support the needs of our clients.
• Assist clients in understanding the benefits of a properly architected IT solution and the approaches and methods involved.
• Taking responsibility for the solution architecture definition and realisation through the project delivery lifecycle.
• Taking end to end responsibility for the architecture definition and realisation through the project delivery lifecycle.

Skills

• Ownership and creation of Solution Architectures including all associated artefacts, including High level Designs, Solution Options, Impact Assessments and Readiness Reviews to deliver a holistic solution domain.
• Excellent and proven design capabilities, covering Conceptual, Logical & physical architectures;
• Confidence to present solutions and influence stakeholders within Financial Services
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle, along with an appreciation of quality assurance, continuous integration/delivery, and the benefits of automation; experience and understanding of Agile practices and the impact on solution design and delivery.
• Preferably, Cloud Enabled, understanding key cloud technologies, ideally AWS or Azure, and concepts of SaaS.
• Preferably, understanding of Data Architecture and Data Modelling and able to articulate the key impacts across this domain.
• Strong systems analysis skills which translate into solution architecture and holistic designs

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