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Solution Architect Role - Leeds
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Salary: £500 per day |
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Overview
Solutions Architect Rate - £550 Location - Leeds Duration - 6 months IR35 - Inside (Must use an umbrella company) One of our largest clients who are based in Leeds is currently looking for a Solution Architect. You will need to have extensive experience of ERP implementation, solution design, system integrations and have excellent relationship building skills and be able play a key role in supporting programme and project delivery. The project is a major transformational change programme aimed at enhancing processes, ways of working and systems used. This will include a revitalisation of the Ellucian Banner records system, introduction of an Admissions CRM, a Curriculum Management solution, new Document Management & automated workflow tools as well as a large-scale data cleanse, introduction of new system integration methodology, new reporting platforms and much more. The programme will affect every part of the administration lifecycle. What does the role entail? As a Solutions Architect your main duties will include: Taking the lead role in the analysis of project requirements and the development of appropriate business and IT architectures; Designing complex, sustainable solutions and embedding working practices for a major change programme; Developing innovative methods for exploiting new and existing platform capabilities; Supporting the development and definition of IT standards and ensuring adherence with these as part of project delivery; Providing projects with support and assurance to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements; Identifying and reporting delivery issues and risks as appropriate and working to mitigate or minimise impacts; Maintaining good relationship with project teams, internal and external customers and suppliers in order to ensure effective and efficient solutions are delivered; Driving efficiencies through technologies and process improvements; Ensuring the right data is available to the right people at the right time These duties provide a framework for the role and should not be regarded as a definitive list. Other reasonable duties may be required consistent with the grade of the post. What will you bring to the role? As a Solutions Architect you will have: Experience of leading successful project delivery in a large organisation as either an architect or design lead; Experience of architecture assessment and definition of business applications and infrastructure design and migration in complex environments; Experience of supporting stakeholders to develop their business cases, scope and requirements to a sufficient standard to allow for options appraisals and high/low levels of solution design. Excellent understanding and experience of applying architectural principles across business applications, infrastructure and cloud technologies, including assurance of regulatory, legislative and industry practices; Experience of effectively analysing problems and data, presenting solutions, and information in a meaningful way to diverse range of stakeholders. Creating high quality documents, reports, diagrams and models to convey information Experience with vendor selection & management including tender processes including OJEU style procurements Excellent communication skills, including the ability to articulate changes to business processes to stakeholders with differing levels of technical knowledge and the ability to influence the outputs of others you are not directly responsible for; Experience of working to deadlines, prioritising a complex range of tasks to ensure delivery in a role which has made competing demands on your time.