Solution Architect

Ordnance Survey ,
Southampton, Hampshire
Salary: £52,000 - £60,000 per annum

Overview

We have a fantastic opportunity to join us as a Solution Architect - Engagement Services based in Southampton. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £52,000 - £60,000 per annum depending on experience plus benefits. Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, and a world-leading geospatial data and technology organisation. As a reliable partner to government, business and citizens across Britain and the world, OS helps its customers in virtually all sectors improve quality of life. OS expertise and data supports efficient public services and infrastructure, new technologies in transport and communications, national security and emergency services and exploring the great outdoors. By being at the forefront of geospatial capability for more than 225 years, we’ve built a reputation as the world’s most inspiring and trusted geospatial partner. We offer fantastic benefits to our Solution Architect: - Competitive salary plus performance related bonus - Competitive pension - 37 hour working week with flexible working options - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas - Training and development - A wide range of additional benefits including free parking, paid volunteer day, support with health and wellbeing, sports and social activities, staff discount on over 500 national stores and more About the role: At OS we enable customers to access data in highly sophisticated ways. We’re looking for a Solution Architect to join the Engagement Services team where we’re building the new data access and fulfilment systems. You’ll be part of a small team of architects who work within the delivery teams, designing the new customer facing portals where customers can select and configure the OS data that they wish to access, and the supporting services that query, extract, fulfil and expose that data via APIs. In the role, you will join our expanding Technology and Design team with responsibility for the definition and delivery of architectural solutions – from vision to reality. You will work to meet business objectives and be accountable for ensuring that the design and development of those solutions are sustainable and fit-for-purpose for current and future OS business need. Working with stakeholders from across the organisation, you will collaborate closely with delivery teams in both the definition and realisation of architectural solutions. In your work you will benefit from collaboration with the brightest minds in OS; some of the best experts in the field. What we are looking for in our ideal Solution Architect : - Definition and implementation of Solution Architecture - Delivering full stack solutions on public cloud platforms (eg: Microsoft Azure) - Providing technical leadership and collaborating with development teams in an agile environment - Collaborating and influencing key business/technical stakeholders - Industry best practices for architecture, agile software development processes and lifecycles - Experience in one or more of the following fields: building cloud native architectures; API development; scaling VM based applications in cloud environments - Experience in geospatial technologies would be an advantage Closing date: Wednesday 15th April If you would like a job where you are part of an architectural journey; where you can use your technical capabilities to evolve the engineering architecture of the business, and where you can grow and broaden your own skills, click ‘apply’ today to submit your application or to find out more about the Solution Architect role – we would love to hear from you. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89858188