IT Solutions Architect

Brighter Connections, one of the North of England's fastest growing IT companies, are looking for a Business Technology Architect to join its growing consultancy team.

This exciting role will give the selected candidate a fantastic opportunity to develop and deliver innovative IT systems for Brighter's clients. The role will involve delivering bespoke consultancy as well as developing new definable, repeatable products and solutions.

The successful candidate will have a passion for technology, a solid technical grounding, and the ability to understand business drivers as well as IT systems.

Personal skills:

• Good communication skills
• Ability to present a business case to management
• Able to explain technical concepts to non-technical colleagues
• Experience in obtaining buy-in from staff
• Confident and decisive
• Strategic thinker
• Proactive not reactive
• Experience of defining and delivering technical infrastructure to support business
• Self motivated and self managing
• Able to deliver on agreed KPI's
• Well presented
• Ethical approach
• Passion for technology and innovation

Technical skills

Essential:

• Programming skills (any language)
• Excellent understanding of web technologies

Desirable:

• Virtualisation
• Information Security
• Networking
• Storage
• Microsoft
• Databases

Business Innovation Skills:

• Ability to develop a business case
• Understanding of ROI calculations
• Ability to think of creative approaches to business problems
• Ability to quickly grasp new technologies

Sales & Marketing Skills

• Good presentation skills
• Confidence to present to senior managers and Directors
• Good written and spoken English
• Ability to extract and communicate business value
• Ability to deliver against Brighter's "Profit from IT" ethos

Deliverables:

You will be expected to deliver the following to Brighter's clients:

Essential:

• Systems documentation
• Systems architecture design and documentation

Desirable:

• "Technical glue"
• Security consultancy
• Training

You will be expected to deliver the following internally to Brighter:

• New innovative products and services which Brighter can market to its clients
• Technology update briefings to keep staff abreast of latest developments in key technology areas.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a genuinely ambitious, and innovative company, with a desire to do things differently.  You will be part of an open, friendly, yet highly focused team.