Senior Solutions Architect - Warwick, United Kingdom - Pontoon

Pontoon
Pontoon
Verified Company
Warwick, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Customer Solutions Senior Solutions Architect

6 Months

Warwick

Inside IR35

£TBD (Awaiting Approval)

About The Role


The Senior Solutions Architect will support the
delivery of customer facing solutions for the Electricity Systems Operator (ESO), using, but not limited to the Salesforce platform.

The role will support a number of
ESO delivery teamsby co-ordinating with
Product / Technical Architects to deliver end to end solutions for internal teams, external market participants and stakeholders.


Key Activities
The key activities that we expect the Senior Solutions Architect to complete are as follows:

  • Ensure solution development designs and technical delivery conforms to programme and platform objectives and vision
  • Support the approval of the solution architecture and technical design through relevant governance processes
  • Lead development of solution and technical architectures, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers
  • Take responsibility for technical integrity, ensuring that common technical elements are recognised (e.g. products), and that work is not unnecessarily duplicated
  • Assist in the development of service level agreements and any associated service guarantees
  • Monitor technical progress, ensuring that coordination and change control are applied to technical specifications and to the technical infrastructure
  • Advise on the impact of changes to the programme and on the process for assessing such impact
  • Identify dependencies and maintain an awareness of ongoing portfolio change. Understand timescales and roadmap of other programmes, systems etc.
  • Work with Domain, Security and Technical Architects to ensure technical standards and security compliance
  • Work closely with development teams to ensure products are developed and delivered to meet overall solution objectives
  • Inform technical leadership and/or project management of major technical issues and makes recommendations for resolution

Attributes and experience

  • Motivated / selfstarter able to produce solutions / design that are positioned appropriately
  • Creative problemsolver
  • A mindset able to accept that there may be a high level of uncertainty with discovery work, but able to produce detail design documents which will require thorough analysis and peer review
  • Good attention to detail

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

  • Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of futureproof, complex global solutions
  • Demonstrable track record in delivery of solution and technical architecture for programmes of work
  • Good presentation and stakeholder management skills, able to report and communicate appropriately, able to explain complex concepts to a nontechnical audience
  • Good timemanagement and multitasking skills
  • Knowledge and experience in IT methodologies and life cycles that will be used
  • Familiar with solution implementation/management, service/operations management, etc.

Required Experience

  • Extensive experience with platforms and CRMs, ideally with Salesforce platform
  • Knowledge of security standards (the Electricity System Operator operates in a highly secure multisite environment with disparate systems)
  • Awareness of IT governance and processes
  • Understanding of IT architecture standards
  • Experience in both waterfall and agile development approaches, including experience in designing and developing software components and solutions as products

Desired Experience

  • Knowledge of the British electricity market, and of The Client's Electricity System Operator systems and processes
  • Extensive experience working on Salesforce implementation projects with endtoend implementation experience with the Salesforce platform from a technical/solution perspective
  • Experience in Salesforce Service and Communities Cloud, with endtoend implementation experience, including integration
  • Background in frontend technologies (such as Visualforce, Lightning Web Components, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML/CSS) and/or backend capabilities (Apex and Apex Classes) would be advantageous
  • Experience with Release Management, Source Control, and Deployment concepts and technologies such as BitBucket, ANT, GIT, Jenkins, SVN
  • Experience of working with integration technologies such as Mulesoft API/ESB, Oracle
  • Experience of integrating with customer identity management solutions would be advantageous
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