Senior Solution Architect

NCC Group is hiring a Senior Solution Architect in Manchester, United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on NCC Group.

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The role holder will contribute to the architecture of both business systems and group-wide services. Your primary focus will be on aligning business requirements with NCC Group’s long-term IT strategy, ensuring that technology solutions support current and future business objectives.

The Design Authority at NCC Group is a collaborative and enabling function that promotes knowledge sharing, architectural consistency, and alignment across the organization. It acts as a bridge between Global Technical Services teams and business engineering teams, fostering cooperation, standardisation, and the adoption of best practices wherever possible.

You will engage with projects from their earliest stages, providing architectural guidance and ensuring that solutions are designed, developed, and implemented in alignment with NCC Group's strategic goals and enterprise architecture principles.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Solution Architect to lead the review, design, and implementation of solutions across our technology estate. You will be responsible for shaping solution architectures, evaluating technology options, driving architectural governance, and ensuring scalable, secure, and sustainable outcomes that deliver business value.

You will play a key role in supporting internal GTS projects as well as wider business projects with your expertise. You will work in various projects delivering oversight translation to and from business and technical teams and able to work out the final solution together with experts cross the group.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver architecture documents that meet requirements from various stakeholders and are in line with our strategy.
Delivery your knowledge and skills to the business engineering teams
Able to gather and document requirements (functional and technical)
Align business requirements with strategic long-term planning.
Present overall architecture if needed to various audiences: Data team, Integration team, Business Partners, Project Members, Business unit stakeholders, Security team and TechOps.
Write long term roadmaps and strategies
Chair technical sessions with engineering teams and translating those in written technical and functional documentation
Investigating the ‘as is’ state currently in place across the groups systems and networks. Produce a picture of company assets and where any security concerns may arise.
Defining and documenting how the implementation of a new system or new interfaces between systems.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

In this role you will need to be all round analytical with background in both IT infra and/or Systems development. You are a communicative and able to understand business needs and able to work on technical challenges.

Requirements analysis
Experience with at least the following:
Networking
Domains (and Domain Segregation)
Public Cloud services
OnPrem Infrastructure
Microsoft O365/ActiveDirectory/AzureAD/Sharepoint/PowerBI
High Availability deployment strategies
AI
Data Governance
IT Architecture
Security principles
Written Technical and functional documentation
Familiar with Togaf (or similar frameworks)
Proactive project membership and attitude
Strong in T’s and C’s
Proven experience as an IT Solution Architect or similar role.
Prior knowledge of Security architecture in a number of different technologies.
Strong working knowledge of IT risks, cyber security, and computer operating software
The aptitude and ability to quickly absorb technical detail of new or unfamiliar technologies is essential.
Proven experience with writing architecture documentation.

Frameworks:

Frameworks: Togaf9 / Zachman / UAF / Agile / FEAF / MoD AF
Languages: BPMN / UML / ArchiMate

Possible Certifications:

AWS or Azure Cert Sol. Architecture
CISSP or Similar Security Qualifications
Open Group Cert. Architecture

How we rate this

Senior Solution Architect at NCC Group rates 34 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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