Solution Architect (Home based)

We are Recruiting for a Solution Architect for a Multinational FTSE 250 Company which can be based from home, paying up to £65,000 per annum.

Occasional travel will be required to Customer sites.

Job responsibilities:

• Work with existing and new customers to translate business requirements into fit for purpose Microsoft and Open Source based solutions through the complete project lifecycle;
• Undertake requirements gathering, planning, estimating, design and technical assurance of Microsoft and Open Source solutions;
• Provide support and guidance to both Project Managers and Technical Architects on Microsoft Open Source solutions;
• Provide technical direction and expertise to the Microsoft and Open Source Development teams;
• Active participation in project planning, team meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other meetings;

• Ensure all Microsoft and Open Source development work meets the agreed architecture and coding standards and take personal accountability for assuring design documentation and coding;

• Adhere to, proactively maintain and improve agreed practices, accreditations, procedures, quality and development standards;

• Identify, review, select and recommend new technical products which can be used to improve the overall quality of the Microsoft practice;

• Assist in the recruitment of the Microsoft and Open Source Development team members as required;
• Carry out estimation of effort for projects;
• Provide pre-sales support to the Sales team as required;
• Manage software development teams when acting as technical lead on larger projects;
• Contribute to customer meetings and workshops and produce checkpoint reports as agreed;
• Ensure technical skills are kept up to date and maintain awareness of new developments in the software industry.

Qualifications/knowledge required

• Good class degree in Computing/Information Technology (e.g. BSc, minimum 2:1) or equivalent;
• Good working knowledge of configuring, customising and implementing Microsoft and/or Open Source solutions essential;
• TOGAF 9.1 required;
• ArchiMate 2.1 desirable
• Microsoft accreditation desirable;
• Good knowledge of Cloud Technologies, Microsoft 365, Node.JS, SharePoint, .NET, MS SQL Server and MS SQL Report Services desirable;
• Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server and Network infrastructure knowledge desirable;
• Good knowledge of business processes.

Skills and experience

• Experience of all aspects of software development lifecycle;
• Strong analysis, design and development skills and experience within an Agile environment;
• Broad experience of commercial software development environments;
• Extensive experience of development or architectural experience in either a senior technical role or a technical management position desirable;
• Strong client relationship and commercialisation skills;
• Experience of producing project artefacts and communicating ideas / information to other team members and non-technical people;
• Experience of end-to-end Microsoft or Open Source solution development and delivery

To apply for this role please follow the link below or send your CV to Callum.Thomas@Capita.co.uk . Alternatively, call me on 07731346028 for further details

Capita IT Resourcing is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.