Student Solution Designer

King's College London; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

King's College London is seeking a Student Solution Designer to join the IT solutions team. You will participate in cross-functional teams within IT Directorate, collaborating with business partners, product owners, and other teams to deliver changes through the SAFe agile delivery framework.

You will analyse complex business problems and design scalable, high-performance solutions for the Student & Academic Services division, ensuring architectural best practices and security while documenting

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of digital products and systems supporting student administration.
• Experience designing architectures for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployments.
• Experience with testing, validation, and documenting technical designs.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance IT solutions.
• Analyse existing systems and processes to identify improvements.
• Develop architecture patterns, guidelines, and standards.
• Support implementation of new IT solutions and integrations.
• Conduct technical assessments and communicate risks and feasibility.

Skills

Student administration systems

Web development (CSS/JavaScript)

Data integration technologies (APIs/SS

Education

Degree in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering

Job description

King's College London is looking for a Student Solution Designer to join our dynamic IT solutions team. The role requires active participation in cross-functional teams within the IT Directorate, collaborating closely with business partners, product owners, and other solutions, portfolio, and services teams to deliver changes or solutions through the SAFe agile delivery framework. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in analysing complex business problems and designing innovative solutions to enhance operational efficiency and enable delivery of our strategic goals. The role will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions that enable the delivery of strategic goals for Student & Academic Services division whilst ensuring technical standards and architectural best practice. The successful candidate will engage in a full range of solution design activities to produce comprehensive end-to-end solution designs and technical architectures that meet business requirements. They will support the implementation of new IT solutions or significant changes by improving, designing, and documenting technical integrations and supporting processes. The candidate will make recommendations that positively impact operational effectiveness and the design and implementation of IT systems:

• Support testing and validation of solutions to ensure quality and functionality meet business needs
• Analyse and evaluate existing systems and processes to identify opportunities for improvement and optimisation
• Develop and document architecture patterns, guidelines, and standards to ensure optimal performance, security, and scalability
• Conduct technical assessments and provide insights on feasibility, risks, and challenges of proposed solutions.

This is a fixed term contract post (35 hours per week), until 31 July 2027. At King's, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university. The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension. We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination. When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King's guidance.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly, and we recognise its growing role in professional work. Applicants may use AI tools to support preparation of their application, for example to research the role or structure written responses. However, applications must reflect the applicant's own work and experience. AI tools should not be used during interviews or assessment activities unless this has been agreed in advance as a reasonable adjustment. Further guidance on the use of AI in recruitment can be found

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Strong knowledge and experience of digital products/ systems supporting student administration, especially student placement systems
• Good knowledge and capacity to adapt in the design/development/support of applications/systems/solutions in different domains
• In-depth expertise of developing design and architectures for deployment in virtualised on-premises, cloud or hybrid environments, web development including CSS, JavaScript
• Experience developing or supporting Quantum InPlace system.
• Good understanding of data and integration technologies (SQL scripts, StuTalk, APIs Message, etc.) including extensive demonstrable experience in the integration aspects of solution architecture using a variety of protocols and transport mechanisms
• Experienced in understanding functional and non-functional product requirements
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable criteria

• Extensive demonstrable experience in the production of solution architecture diagrams for a variety of audiences and providing multiple viewpoints
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, professionally qualified with a relevant degree/postgraduate qualification.
• Good understanding of the full solution development lifecycle. Strong understanding of software development methodologies and frameworks, including Agile and DevOps practices
• Appreciation of key issues within the HE sector (political, social, economic) and appreciation of how these forces drive technology requirements and solutions
• Proficiency in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and microservices architecture as familiarisation with RDBMS, Cloud computing, AI systems and data security, etc.

King's College London is looking for a Student Solution Designer to join our dynamic IT solutions team. The role requires active participation in cross-functional teams within the IT Directorate, collaborating closely with business partners, product owners, and other solutions, portfolio, and services teams to deliver changes or solutions through the SAFe agile delivery framework.

Grade and Salary : £54,923 - £64,515 per annum inclusive of London Weighting Allowance Job ID : 161805