The opportunity:

We are hiring a self-motivated, customer-focused talented Solution Architect to join Capita's Professional Services delivery team. If you like working collaboratively with like-minded professionals on a mixture of customer engagements, Capita is a great place to work and grow your career.

Role and responsibilities:

The Solution Architect is responsible for creating exceptional architectural designs, providing thought leadership across a broad spectrum of technologies, supporting delivery teams and stakeholders

• Develop architecture solutions based on customer/programme requirements

• Ensures solutions are secure, scalable, reliable and can be maintained

• Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions, including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications to better match business outcomes

• Analyse technology environments, business specifics and client requirements to align solutions better

• Clearly and accurately can articulate, document and present architectural solutions, recommendations and reusable patterns to stakeholders

• Ensures architecture principles and standards are consistently applied to all the projects

• Develops trust and builds effective working relationships through respectful, collaborative engagement

• Demonstrate thought leadership on engagements and with colleagues, act as a trusted advisor

• Identifies RAID items, their potential impacts and mitigation

Essential Experience/Skills:

• Accustomed to working within ITIL frameworks, along with Prince 2 and Agile methodologies

• Extensive experience in solution design, developing and implementing sustainable and scalable solutions that follow service management processes and procedures

• Experience in selecting and applying service management principles, policies and techniques in client operational environments

• Customer focussed with ability to identify and understand the (internal and/or external) customer's needs

• Cloud Architecture, MS Azure, Analytics and Remote Condition Monitoring

• Displays a high degree of knowledge relating to service management and ITSM toolsets

• Experience of working at a senior Operations management level

• Knowledge of IT outsource models, including experience in developing and using ITO cost models

• Experience of working in large transformation programmes.

• Able to perform peer reviews, audits, standards compliance checks and due diligence as required

• Demonstrable consultancy skills

• Experience as a Solution Architect/Consultant with excellent design experience

• Experience of ERP platforms

• Exposure to integration & middleware

• Experience in managing development teams & development cycles

Personal Attributes:

• Comfortable working effectively from home

• Able to adapt to change at short notice

• Creative problem solving and analysis skills

• A self-starting individual with a strong work ethic can plan and manage their own time effectively

• Ability to perform under pressure and to work using own as well as part of a team