Solution Architect - Newcastle Upon Tyne - £80,000

Solution Architect

Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne

Salary: Competitive

Company Background

Our client is one of the largest software consultancy firms in the world, with over 10,000 employees worldwide you with be joining a truly established company. They are a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology and engineering services. You'll be joining a passionate, professional and highly skilled team of architects and engineers who specialise in building and integrating custom software solutions at enterprise scale.

Key Skills and Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join us on a full-time basis. You will be reporting to the Head of Development, the Solution Architects are the driving force behind the technical practice by designing resilient and scalable enterprise-level application architectures and assessing overall project feasibility. They hold responsibility for the day-to-day fulfilment of the people’s development, regulatory functions and IT Controls, and provide direction for the effective architecture of consumer-level applications and solutions to our agile development teams.

• Creating and maintaining software documentation.
• Reviewing and approving code changes within the development teams.
• Defining and enforcing the standard of the code within the team (code review, audit, structure, linting, testing quality).
• Working with development teams and stakeholders to enable the strategic delivery of projects.
• Engaging with other teams or parts of the business to share knowledge, refine tasks, and eliminate unknowns.
• Reviewing project technical delivery roadmaps and providing high level estimates where necessary.
• Ensuring development stability and identifying weaknesses within production ready solutions.
• Managing the teams in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures, so that the team’s business objectives are achieved consistently.
• Being aware of emerging new technologies that support the growth of the business, and assisting with the early adoption of these.
• Driving the full adoption of Agile methodology.

What You’ll Need

• Experience interpreting client/organisational strategic requirements and translating those into viable solutions.
• Strong understanding and experience in multiple programming languages including Java Script.
• Experience mentoring team members and providing guidance, feedback and support where needed.
• Experience architecting solutions and modelling best practices.
• Defining and enforcing industry security and best practice behaviours and processes within the Agile development teams.
• Understanding of DevOps processes and infrastructure.
• Experience working with relational database systems.
• Experience working with code management solutions.
• Experience driving Agile operational strategy forward.
• Experience fulfilling allocated IT Control or regulatory responsibilities would be helpful.

What's on Offer

The successful Solution Architect will receive the following benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Remote Working
• New Laptop + Mobile
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

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