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    Laing O'Rourke
    Laing O'Rourke United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    The Lead Solution Architect will manage and develop the Laing O'Rourke Solution Architecture practice. Including the demand management, quality assurance of delivery and development.

    Leading a team of permanent, interim and partner Solution Architects, ensuring the provision of a high-quality solution architecture function to the Laing O'Rourke global business.

    They will act as a bridge between Enterprise Architecture, IT Design, Delivery and Operations.

    Accountable for the management and delivery of the Solution Architecture practice within IT and to the wider LOR business.

    Develops and leads a high-performance team of solution architects
    Accountable for the Solution Architecture demand management.
    planning pre-project activities, costing.

    Ensure consistency in delivery and quality is aligned across the architecture team and its customers, both from a perspective of written documentation, governance and senior stakeholder communication.

    As part of the IT Architecture team, drives the creation and maintenance of solution design artifacts including; Responsible, with each technology initiative, to ensure buy-in from the wider IT teams so that the teams are motivated to match the detailed design of the solution to the higher-level architecture.

    Ensure the alignment of stakeholder groups projects and infrastructure with ICT architecture standards and policies.

    Develop the Solution Architecture capabilities to ensure that the management and development of our professional team maintains alignment to the development of our organisation and strategic roadmap.

    Provides guidance and governance oversight to Solution Architecture and IT Delivery teams in relation to the development and execution of the Enterprise Architecture strategy and roadmap.


    Performance Measures:
    Relationship maturity with Business and IT stakeholders.
    Clear senior stakeholder communication within IT and the wider Business.
    Active collaboration with Enterprise Architect, Business and various IT functional areas.
    Reports to Group Head of IT Architecture
    Peer of Enterprise Architects in both LOR Hubs
    Delivery Organisation (Project Managers, Business Analysts, Platform & engineering Teams)
    Research and market data providers (i.e. Ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, adjusting language and tone to the audience
    A believer in quality, open documentation to aid team collaboration and knowledge sharing
    Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations
    Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of the enterprise architecture

    Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams.

    Business acumen, appreciation of IT budgeting (Run/Change), contribute to business case development.
    Post-grad degree or equivalent relevant experience
    Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
    Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
    Experience of modern work management and documentation tools such as Confluence, Jira, LucidChart

    About us:

    We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

    Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want.

    As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'.

    We are a global multicultural business committed to the inclusion of all employees, enabling everyone to feel accepted, respected & valued for being themselves.

    As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an interview scheme'.

    We have set out far-reaching global sustainability targets including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women amongst our global staff by 2033.

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