Job Title: Technical Solutions Designer
About the Role
The company is seeking an experienced Technical Solutions Designer to join its team. As a key member of the architecture group, you will be responsible for designing solutions and systems in line with documented business requirements and strategy.
This role involves collaborating with business stakeholders, project managers, and business analysts to understand project goals, requirements, and constraints. You will provide input to project briefs and investment/business cases, ensuring that they detail broad objectives, risks, options, and implications of each initiative.
You will take accountability for identifying and assessing solution options that realize project requirements. This includes liaising with vendors to identify solution options or components and articulating the rationale for your recommendations considering each stakeholder's view.
Solution Design
Your primary responsibility will be to design overall solutions, including consideration of both functional and non-functional aspects such as security, risk/compliance, performance, scalability, and usability. You will ensure that the actual solution development conforms to the recommended solution architecture and work with project teams and business stakeholders to resolve areas of non-conformance.
You will also provide technology thought leadership, mentoring, and guidance to project team members and wider IT teams. Additionally, you will ensure that solution architecture activities on projects are delivered in accordance with company architecture methodologies, standards, tools, repositories, and conventions.
Requirements
* Experience in the design and development of complex business systems
* Demonstrated knowledge and experience in contemporary platform-based solution architecture patterns across business, application, information, and technology domains
* Proven solution delivery experience using both platform and custom software-based solutions
* Skills and experience in solution areas including web-based solutions, mobility solutions, integration, enterprise applications, and business intelligence/reporting
* Demonstrated experience in Azure-based solution design, patterns, and practices
* Current, up-to-date Azure, TOGAF, and/or ITIL certifications (or working towards them)
* Experience in evaluating and selecting various technology solutions or components to meet solution requirements
* Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to facilitate workshops across IT and business stakeholders
* Skills and experience in a variety of software development methodologies
Benefits
* In-house discounts
* Flexibility
* Career growth
* Wellness focus
* Health coverage
* Parental leave
We offer a dynamic work environment, excellent benefits, and opportunities for career growth.