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Becoming an Solution Architect with Capita TfL

We are currently expanding the Architecture team in order to transition and transform the existing Congestion Charging (CC) & Low-Emission Zone (LEZ) solutions into Microsoft Azure and scale for a significant increase in volumes as a result of the Direct Vision Standards (DVS) and Ultra Low Emission Zone Extension (ULEX) schemes which is due to go-live in October 2021, and to support the long term clean air strategy of our client.

Capita currently deliver Congestion Charging (CC), Low Emission Zone (LEZ), Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and Direct Vision Standards (DVS) services on behalf of Transport for London, helping them to deliver London’s clean air policy.

What you’ll be doing:

As an experienced Solution Architect you will work with operational and project teams to provide expert guidance on various aspects of infrastructure and application-based solutions.

You will be responsible for producing business case, solution overview and high-level designs, managing the technical relationship between 3rd party vendors and providing guidance and support for the delivery on a variety of initiatives

and apply functional knowledge and technical expertise to design systems to support our customer needs.

• Responsible for the governance and design of a complete solution from inception through delivery to handover.

• Work with Business Architects and Analysts to ensure what is proposed is both fit for purpose and meets the core business needs.

• Liaise with several Technical Design, Application and Platform architects during the design and delivery phase.

• Assist with the coordination of other technical SME’s to support the delivery and implementation phases of a programme or project

• Understand the challenges and complexities that exists within each stream or area of a programme and be able to integrate these activities.

• Promote co-operation and facilitate coordination of all technical and non-technical streams within a programme to achieve the successful delivery of an integrated solution.

• Provide consultancy to determine and understand the dependencies that exist between technical and non-technical components across streams.

• Support the Enterprise Architect / project / programme manager in understanding the risks, dependencies and issues that exist and the impact that these may have on the project / programme.

• Understand what the project / programme will deliver from a business and benefits perspective and to advise on areas where this in not congruent with the proposed solution.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience as a Solution Architect or in a technical leadership role.

• Working on the transformation of the IT estate into target architecture.

• Experience of developing solutions deployed in Azure, not just the design of such solutions but supporting the entire programme delivery lifecycle through to implementation.

• Ability to familiarise yourself with the application environment and understand how they can be amended to meet new customer requirements is going to be an essential skill.

• Broad knowledge of solution areas such as transformation and migration, security, business analysis, applications, integration and infrastructure, service management, including trends in the current marketplace and understands how these interact to arrive at a solution.

• Experience of adopting and enforcing governance and assurance methods.

• Experience of designing & implementing solutions as part of multi-stream change programmes.

• Business and technical concepts such as business process design, service management, applications, servers, networks and security (both technical and process).

• Ability to understand complex business problems and commercial frameworks and how to apply a logical, systematic approach to arrive at an appropriate solution.

Essential:

• 5 - 7 years Solution Architecture experience

• Designing for high volume transactional systems

• End to end project lifecycle experience

Desirable:

• Microsoft Windows Server

• Microsoft Azure

• Application Integration

• Data Architecture

• TSQL

• XML

• SOAP

• Linux/Unix