Location
Bristol | United Kingdom
Job description
Solution Architect
Position Description
Elevate your potential with CGI, a global technology service provider and premier business consultancy recognized by Forbes Magazine as a top 100 employer. Our mission is rooted in evolution, excelling in intricate challenges. Collaborating directly with our clients, we employ innovative technologies to revolutionize, empower, safeguard, and deliver critical mission systems.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2023 and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a member not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.
Your future duties and responsibilities
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to diversify from this role readily and work across sectors within Space, Defence & Intelligence (SDI) for high profile engagements. This will likely involve collaboration with SMEs within multiple SDI sectors, and the introduction of Agile methods to customers unfamiliar with these practices.
Working alongside an SME client-side providing at the high-level design stage in a large programme design, you will architecting alongside others to support an exciting end client people transformation programme. CGI has a few Members deployed on this task in a collegiate environment and seeks a diversity of talent to maximise the value for the client.
• liaising will multiple business stakeholders, and other project teams to help define the high-level strategic solution design and support its integration with other pan defence systems.
• Support in the preparation of the Full Business Case to fund the next tranche of development within the programme.
• Working alongside other architects, producing the lower-level design and creating relevant proof of concepts and Alpha models.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
• Experience of designing data architectures for large systems e.g. Logical Data Modelling, Database Design etc.
• Understanding of Master Data concepts across an enterprise and API deployment.
• Familiarity with The Open Group ‘Archimate’ modelling standard.
• Some awareness of how the MOD is organised and its hierarchy structures
• Confidence to brief groups of senior staff on complicated data-oriented topics
• Ability to produce polished PowerPoint Presentations or Word Documents using MOD writing standards.
Desirable:
• Familiarity with how to use Sparx Enterprise Architect.
• Familiarity with AWS services especially AWS Data Handling services
• Understanding of API deployment across Security Domains/Boundaries
Due to the secure nature of the programme/role, you will need to hold the highest level of UK Security Clearance, or be eligible to go through National Security Vetting to obtain this clearance.
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Insights you can act on While technology is at the heart of our clients’ digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.
When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees “members” because they are CGI shareholders and owners, and, as owners, we enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today—one of the world’s largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.
At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where everyone belongs, and we collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal opportunity employer, we empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.
Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI—where your ideas and actions make a difference.
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