Solutions Architect

Solution Architect

Salary: £65,000 - £70,000 per annum

Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Location: Hybrid (Office: West Bromwich)

Here at the West Bromwich Building Society we are all about making a you-shaped career. We understand it’s not always easy juggling your career with all the important things outside of work. But with the right opportunities and support we can help you build a career that works for you.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Solution Architect who will Report into the Senior Solution Architect. The Solution Architect will design solutions and create architectural documents that meet requirements for projects to which the role holder is assigned, this includes artefacts such as roadmaps, high and low-level designs. Signed off through the various governance bodies including the Technical Review Board, Business Review Board and Architecture Review Board.

The post holder will design appropriate transitional stages within the projects, ensure that the impacts of proposed changes to our IT estate are understood and input into improving the solution architect practice as well as maintaining relevant baseline and future state views within the architecture repository.

What the role will look like:

• Be able to perform impact analysis of change requests on technology and application landscapes.
• Takes responsibility for understanding, collecting and documenting data and information, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends solution options.
• Ensure that solutions minimize complexity and maximise reuse and clearly address the 'problem' we're trying to solve.
• Assess and communicate the business impact of technical options selected. • Be able to define target and transitional states of solution design.
• Be able to oversee a full project lifecycle.
• Be able to model architecture views and maintain architecture repository using industry leading toolsets.
• Contribute to and maintain the common architectural repository and relevant architectural artefacts producing documentation of a high quality to enable decisions or drive delivery.
• Ensuring all decision points, building blocks, design principles, design rationale, roadmaps and all interdependencies are understood, documented and communicated, where appropriate.
• Be able to support Business Analysis function in defining functional and nonfunctional requirements and operational designs.
• Acts as a trusted advisor providing specialist and technology expertise to stakeholders thereby facilitating the right decisions to be made or highlighting areas of risk where appropriate.

For more information on the role, please refer to the job description below

What you will bring to the role:

• A good understanding of software / project lifecycle and methodologies.
• Cloud services (Azure & OCI preferred) and deployment models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
• Good understanding of compute, storage and network technology and technology platforms.
• Service and micro-service architecture is preferable.
• A good understanding of application integration techniques and patterns.
• High level understanding of all architecture domains such as Application, Data, Technology and Security
• Be able to work with wider teams and end users.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
• Passion for technology and problem solving through technical solutions.
• Previous solution architect experience and ideally experience within Financial Services.
• Be able to translate business requirements to solutions.

We Value a diverse range of skills and experiences here at the West Brom. So even if you don't meet every single requirement listed in the job description but are passionate about the role, we still encourage you to apply.

What's in it for you:

• We pride ourselves on our development opportunities and always look to promote from within wherever possible,
• Holiday starting at 175 hours (25 days) plus bank holidays that grow with your time with us and the opportunity to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday each year,
• 2 paid volunteering days a year,
• Living Pensions: Pension scheme starting at 5% contribution from you and 7% contribution from us, and we’ll match your further contributions up to 10.6%
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave with paid fertility treatment, neonatal and pregnancy loss leave,
• Life assurance provided by the Society at 4 times your salary,
• Yearly performance related pay scheme and pay review,
• Private medical insurance that’s discounted when your time with us grows, with the option to include family members,
• Salary Sacrifice Electric/Hybrid Car Scheme,
• A Perkbox account – giving you 24/7 access to perks, benefits, discounts, wellbeing tools and loads more!
• And much more, from flexible working options, wellbeing support and a whole heap of warm West Bromness.

Why choose the West Brom?

At the West Brom we appreciate that our employees are unique individuals with differing needs depending on their specific circumstances and stages in life. When we say our people are the West Brom’s biggest asset that doesn’t mean just viewing them as employees. We are proud of our heritage and absolutely believe that the West Brom is a great place to work.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader and encourage disabled applicants and all from diverse backgrounds to apply. We’ll do what we can to adjust our recruitment journey and offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet what we’re looking for. If you need any support with applying to one of our roles, get in touch at [email protected].

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*Please note – We reserve the right to withdraw our adverts earlier than the original published expiry date, therefore if you are interested please submit your application as soon as possible*

Head Office: 2 Providence Place West Bromwich B70 8AF. www.westbrom.co.uk The West Brom is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority. Register no. 104877. ‘the West Brom’ is a trading name of West Bromwich Building Society.