Solution Architect
*Annual Salary: Competitive
*Location: Oxford (Hybrid - minimum 2 days per week onsite)
*Job Type: Full-time
A new exciting Solution Architect permanent position has become available, working with a market leading educational publisher organisation, where you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering complex, multi-component customer-facing systems and applications.
This includes digital platforms, web and eCommerce applications, and online research platforms. You will provide hands-on technical leadership, collaborating closely with product owners and various teams to ensure our technology solutions align with business goals and architectural standards.
Day-to-day of the role:
*Collaborate with product or system owners to understand their requirements and challenges, creating high-level design documents to address these effectively.
*Work alongside other architecture colleagues to define all aspects of solution design, including technology selection and workflow processes.
*Drive the design and delivery of solutions that align with long-term technology strategies and architectural principles.
*Translate strategic goals into capabilities, ensuring initiatives are prioritized to deliver essential business growth.
*Guide development teams and vendors in implementing architectural patterns and coding standards.
*Provide consultancy and mentoring across the architectural community, facilitating design reviews and identifying opportunities for framework-oriented strategies.
*Collaborate with internal and third-party engineering teams to ensure alignment with target architecture and standards.
*Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
*Develop technical talent through effective supervision, coaching, and mentoring.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
*Experience in technically leading development teams and acting as the technical authority.
*Deep understanding of product technology development and its application to meet business needs.
*Proven experience in delivering product solutions within a customer-facing product delivery SaaS environment.
*Familiarity with Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile methodologies.
*Ability to deliver solutions to required quality within agreed budget and timescales.
*Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture principles and cloud-based technologies, especially AWS.
*Strong communication skills with effective stakeholder management capabilities.
*Experience in the publishing or closely related industries with an emphasis on digital technology is desirable.
Benefits:
*25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days), increasing with service.
*35-hour working week with flexibility in working patterns depending on the role.
*Active employee networks and societies.
*Pension contributions up to 12%.
*Loans and savings schemes through Salary Finance.
*Travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
*Private medical insurance and a management bonus.