Job Title: Solution Architect
Location: Hybrid, 2-3 days a week in London or Madrid Offices
Employment Status: Full Time
Department: Digital and Information Technology
Reporting to: Portfolio Manager
About the Role:
One of Carbon60's clients, a leading airline group within the cargo division is looking for a Solution Architect to join the team.
As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive technology solutions that address specific business needs. You will serve as a liaison between the technical and business aspects of new solutions, analysing business needs, identifying tech solutions, and designing a comprehensive plan for implementation. You will collaborate with various teams, such as Developers, Project Managers, and Analysts, to ensure effective implementation of the solution, achieving the organisation's objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, develop, and maintain sustainable respectful stakeholder relationships.
- Ensure full adherence to all governance, standards, and processes across the organization.
- Define solutions to complex business problems using a wide range of artifacts, methods, and tools.
- Facilitate the structuring of business problems to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are clearly understood.
- Maintain a view of business and technical capabilities and applications within a specialist business domain.
- Ensure strategic transformational change is embedded within the organisation.
- Manage key supplier relationships, ensuring the quality of supplier deliverables meets Group standards.
- Provide expertise in driving forward solutions for applications, ensuring alignment with the business and technical strategic vision and goals.
- Ensure best-in-class solutions that minimize customisation through Solution design that integrates world-class applications.
- Communicate and negotiate with all relevant stakeholders to ensure a balance of usability and fit with the enterprise architecture.
- Partner with the project team to plan system testing tasks and audit implemented solutions to ensure planned benefits are realised.
- Build strategic supplier relationships where third-party work or packages involve significant architectural decisions.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Strong stakeholder relationship skills with a proven ability to influence and persuade internally and externally.
- Effective senior stakeholder management, balancing and finding compromises between opposing views and opinions.
- Business partnering, working as a valued partner with senior stakeholders across a diverse operation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex IT/technology solutions coherently.
- Strong risk management skills and the ability to work under pressure in a changing environment.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Certification in TOGAF or an equivalent qualification in IT architecture.
- 5+ years in an architecture role with hands-on experience with Azure or AWS cloud platforms.
- Proficiency in operating within both Agile and Structured delivery environments.
Desirable Experience:
- Experience working in the Logistics, Freight, Courier industry.
- Experience with major technology and business change programs.
Salary: £85,000p/a + benefits
Location: West London
Hybrid work model (2-3 days in the office)