Solutions Architect Manager

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Title: Solutions Architect Manager

Location: Farnborough

Job Type: Permanent

The company

This remarkable business comprises teams of dedicated people; experts in defense, aerospace, security and related markets. We draw on their extensive technical knowledge and intellectual property to provide the know-how and support to solve some of the world's most challenging problems. The people make the critical difference to customers by providing unique approaches to problem solving.

MoD Hebrides Range although part of a business wide Capability team supporting sites across the UK. In this role you will provide engineering and system administration support to ensure the Range trials control and associated IT systems remain available for support to the operation of the site.

Our companies Group IT manages 1000 applications, 20 networks, 11 domains and around 500 firewalls; they design and advise on global solutions which operate from around 100 additional networks operating in a dozen countries and at the highest in-country government security classifications

The Position

As a Solutions Architect Manager you will have significant responsibility owning the design templates and process to ensure that the business can meet its cost and deadline obligations around solutions design, implementation and hence project delivery Solution Architects within the Group IT play an important role ensuring that the solutions they produce align with roadmaps established by the Enterprise Architecture practice, and compliant with EA Standards, Principals & Policies.

Responsibilities

As solutions Architect Manager you will ensure that all Solutions Architect resources are aware of those standards, principals and policies, and adhere to the approved design process

As the majority of the existing team are single domain focused (predominantly Network & Infrastructure), you will need to motivate, support and mentor those individuals to develop the necessary multi-domain skills (Process, Data and Applications, Infrastructure, Networks and Security) to provide a more rounded design team enabling a single Solutions Architect to be appointed to each project, but drawing on the knowledge and expertise of the IT Operations personnel.

Key Accountability's

In addition to those of the Solutions Architect below, you will be accountable for the day to day operation of the Solutions Architectural practice, ensuring the proper running of the team through 1:1, team and performance meetings, supporting team members in their personal and technical development and ensuring that resources are aligned to project and programme delivery.

As an experienced people manager will be accountable for identifying both technical and soft skill gaps within the team and supporting individual team members in their development, driving to a high performing, knowledgeable and proficient unit.

This role will be accountable for ensuring quotes for design timescales / technical costs are increasingly accurate as progress is made through the design cycle, and the team are properly supported in the execution of their duties. Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the desired level of quality are essential in this role.

Accountable for the periodic review of the design templates and design process with the Chief Enterprise Architect and Operational Support / Implementation Leads, to ensure that they continue to add value and provide the correct level of detail for solutions to be easily implemented without causing unnecessary delay in the design or implementation phases.

Solution Architect Specific accountabilities are

You will have the opportunity to work closely with the Business Analysts to ensure that the Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Non-Functional Requirements are suitably documented and are fit to determine the solution, can be tested against, and detailed enough to prove that the solution will deliver to the requirements.

Defining and articulating complex solutions for large scale / high impact projects, including business, application, data and infrastructure impacts along with testing and implementation considerations through well-defined design & approval process.

* Developing pragmatic, commercially feasible architectures, considering all functional as well as non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, capacity, accessibility, security, usability)

* Leading a multi-disciplinary team of application, data and infrastructure professionals to implement the architecture, including those distributed across geographical boundaries

* Troubleshoot complex and intermittent problems to tight timeframes whilst under pressure

* Provide strategic consultation to the global organisation and its subsidiaries projects and service development initiatives in defining or designing business processes and functions, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer requirements

Minimum of SC security clearance will be required; capability to achieve DV is desirable

Desirable Qualifications

Relevant domain level certification such as CCDP / CCIE, MCSE, OSCP, LPIC-3 etc. or equivalent providing evidence of advanced domain level knowledge and capabilities

If you feel this position would add value to your career please apply before Friday 12th January as the shortlist will close for professionals to be reviewed. Please contact corey.morgan@experis .co.uk if you have any further questions or contact me on 0161 924 3643.