Chief Solutions Architect

Location - Flexible. Primary base could be anywhere in the UK (working from home) but must be willing and able to travel to London and elsewhere (mainly UK) in connection with the role. 

Purpose of the post

This is a senior role covering 3 key areas:

• Solution Architecture: Software and solution architect working across the range of technical solutions developed across the institute, both by the central technology team and HDR UK partners.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Responsibility for the internal cloud-based systems hosting our software and the line management of the dev-ops team.
• Business Systems: Strategic overview of the IT side of our outsourced business systems and support contracts, along with line management of the systems team.

HDR UK requires the services of an experienced Chief Solution Architect to lead technology services and solutions across the organisation, leading and maintaining technical strategies, architectures and roadmaps. The role will involve solution design production and review for all aspects of the HDR UK technology product ecosystem (technical design authority).

The role reports to HDR UK’s CTO. 

Responsibilities

In addition to the purpose of post, some key responsibilities:

Planning & Designing:

• Facilitating the development and regular updating of an integrated high-level roadmap across HDR UK products working across Product Owners
• Creating processes and systems to enable efficient working and process improvement, including working with others to develop tracking systems

Decision Making:

• The post-holder will make all day-to-day operational decisions for their own workload
• With support from the Chief Technology Officer, the Chief Solution Architect will identify, initiate and develop opportunities for collaborative working with the members of the HDRUK including extended technical team, relevant national and international partners and organisations

Leadership:

• Evangelist for HDR UK technologies building relationships with peers at conferences & events
• Lead the design of how our software and products interoperate and strategically align
• Provide mentorship and professional development opportunities for the Systems Manager and Dev-ops team, fostering a culture of growth and learning 

Person Specification

• Significant or Demonstrable Experience in software development with knowledge both Front and Back-end languages, such as ReactJS, Python, PHP, RESTful API design, GraphQL, JSON, XML and CSS. While a strong software development background is essential for understanding our technology stack, there is no requirement to be hands on.
• Experience in IT product vendor analysis.
• Ability to analyse complex scenarios, distil key points and take pragmatic action to move projects forwards in an agile manner.
• High quality and concise communication skills, written and verbal. Able to persuade, motivate and lead others at all levels, and to explain concepts without technical jargon.
• An ability to act at pace with a high degree of accuracy and independence.
• Ability to work in self-driven fashion in a dynamic, fast-moving international environment establishing structures and processes, clear information flow and ensuring effective stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to communicate technical issues and solutions clearly to a range of audiences.
• Experience in developing and implementing strategic plans.

Closing date – Friday 11^th July at 4pm.

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