Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire | United Kingdom
Job description
Solution Architect
Salary: Circa £60,000 per annum negotiable depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Location: Hybrid - flexibility to work from home and at any of our main hubs (London, Bristol, Manchester and Milton Park - Oxfordshire)
Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research, and innovation. We are a not-for-profit organisation with a big ambition to improve lives through education and research by providing hardware, software, and networking solutions.
Join us and your contribution will help us to empower UK universities, colleges, and research institutions with technology so that everyone prospers.
About the role:
This is an exciting time to join Jisc. We are on a journey of transformation to re-define our technical and IT strategy with the primary focus of this transformation on achieving Jisc’s ‘digital vision’. This will enable us to provide an amazing online experience for our members, customers, students, and other stakeholders, introduce end-to-end automation and high levels of efficiency in delivering Jisc’s products and services and to provide the systems and tools for Jisc staff to deliver these things.
You will play a key part in designing and supporting change delivery across all our transformation workstreams. Working with the newly formed Enterprise Architecture Design Authority (EADA) you will develop and maintain architectural working practices and coordinate design governance across the organisation’s Technical Design Authorities. You will also work in collaboration with project delivery teams designing technology solutions in line with the organisational strategy.
You will need to have excellent architectural skills, a strong background in solution architecture (Salesforce, MuleSoft, AWS, and Dynamics 365) and the skills to empathise with customers and an affinity to create solutions designed to deliver a great customer experience.
If you have passion for technology and want to work with great people, doing great things and the drive to build, innovate and enhance the higher, further education and skills sector this could be the role for you!
Other responsibilities will include:
• Contribute to the definition and development of architectural artefacts including target architectures, design patterns, principles, standards, models, guidelines, and roadmaps.
• Participate in and coordinate Jisc’s Technical Design Authorities (TDAs) and governance structures across the organisation to ensure joined-up decision-making and solution design takes place in support of change delivery.
• Collaborate with data architects and other design roles to design individual solutions to meet project and business needs.
• Liaise with programme stakeholders to understand business needs and individual programme requirements and provide decision support across the transformation programme delivery workstreams as a trusted advisor.
• Stay current with new technologies, industry trends, and architectural developments to provide technology expertise across the organisation.
Key Skills and Experience:
• Substantial experience working as part of an architectural or equivalent design team.
• Experience working with Salesforce, MuleSoft, AWS, and Dynamics 365.
• Experience designing solutions across all three major cloud providers.
• An understanding of architectural practice and ways of working to support technical change delivery.
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to listen to and interpret requirements with technical and non-technical audiences.
• An ability to communicate solutions and rationale to a wide range of stakeholders.
Please refer to the job description for full details.
Don’t meet every single requirement?
We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box but we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
Why work at Jisc:
At Jisc, everyone plays a key role and gets the chance to feel part of it, that to us is the definition of a meaningful career. We want to create a culture of lifelong learning. You can look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to develop and make a real difference to the education and research sectors.
We believe a balance between your personal and professional life is essential to your happiness and fulfilment. We work flexibly at Jisc and focus on outputs rather than presenteeism and are open to a whole range of ways of working. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. Our hybrid working policy is flexible, and the frequency of time spent in your nominated office will vary across teams and job roles.
Our benefits are great too. We offer:
• Flexible work pattern, which can adapt to suit your schedules and personal commitments
• 31 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) that includes an additional three closure days over Christmas
• A generous pension scheme
• A range of leave options, including parental leave, 3 days volunteer leave per annum and even career breaks
• A generous budget to support you with external learning and Continuous professional development
• Allocated allowance of up to £250 to equip your home office
• A company culture which supports and promotes personal learning and development, including access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning
• Mental health first aid trained staff and supportive environment
• Financial well-being support
• The opportunity to donate to charity tax-free with our Payroll Giving benefit
• A wide range of discounts from retailers and big-name high-street stores
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee recognition awards and travel loans
• Additional Flexible benefits include Holiday Buying - Purchase 1-5 days’ additional holiday per annum, Healthcare Cashplan, Electric Car Lease Scheme and option to purchase SmartTech
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We celebrate diversity, embrace our differences, and know that this is critical for our success. We work hard to make sure we’re inclusive and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Striving to be best in practice, we are working hard to achieve progressive change. ‘Always inclusive’ is one of our six guiding principles - a principle which actively encourages acceptance of differences within individuals.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, class, citizenship, marital status, disability, neurodivergence, trans status, veteran status or gender identity.
Application process:
Please do let us know what reasonable adjustments you need made to the application or selection process so you can do your best. We will be happy to help you.
Just so you know, we review CVs as soon as we can and aim to provide an update on your application within 4 weeks of receiving it. However, you may hear from us a lot sooner, so please keep an eye out for our emails or calls!
We advertised this role on 13/02/2024.
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