Senior Solution Architect and Designer

Senior Solution Architect & Designer

About People’s Partnership

At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

What You'll Be Doing

This role will contribute to the performance of an effective and efficient IT function that supports the software needs of People’s Partnership companies and linked 3rd party organizations.

Provide strategic focused IT direction, guidance and design principles that ensure close alignment between business and technology objectives.

Operate within the function’s processes and standard operating procedures and actively, contribute to the achievement of the IT department’s overall objectives.

• Develop technical solutions architectures and optimise chosen solutions to meet the needs of the organisation, proposing end-to-end solutions and highlighting any trade-offs.
• Actively contribute to the Technical Design Authority by reviewing on-going designs of change projects/programmes to identify strategic opportunities and resolve design issues during delivery.
• Bring outside thinking into the department to ensure currency and best practice adoption within People’s Partnership.
• Shape the design\architecture of the organization, based on strategic business and technology operating models
• Develop principles, strategies and frameworks

What We’re Looking For

• Microsoft Certification or equivalent experience in digital technologies. Microsoft OS, .NET, C#, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SQL Server.
• Extensive experience as a Lead Developer, Network Infrastructure Manager or Business Intelligence SME.
• Detailed knowledge, understanding and application of relevant IT tools primarily based on Microsoft platform
• Demonstrable knowledge of Service and EA frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman or ITIL
• Experience gained in a financial services environment

What You Can Expect From Us

• Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
• Real living wage
• Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
• Employee healthcare
• Parental and adoption leave
• Learning & development opportunities and study support
• Travel season ticket loans
• Subsidised restaurant in our Crawley office
• Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
• Onsite gym
• Ride-to-Work scheme
• Social clubs and events

You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website.

Disability Statement

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.

Perks

Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. That’s why we offer an award-winning pension – it’s what we’re good at – plus health care cover, an onsite gym, access to a personal trainer; even the odd massage. And if they’re feeling peckish after all that activity, they can always refuel in our subsidised restaurant. Discover more of People's Partnership's employee benefits including our training programme, which is designed to give our people the support they need to develop a fulfilling career.