We are currently looking for a Solution Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture Practice. The role contributes to saving lives at sea by ensuring that information technology solutions and programmes across the organisation are suitably architected, designed and co-ordinated to deliver the RNLI's core purpose through education, influence, supervision and rescue., As a Solution Architect, you will be tasked with the following:

• Produce and lead technical architecture solutions of complex systems in response to technology and business-led demand that considers the business, data, application and technology domains: This multi-domain approach extends across your role in the stages of requirements discovery and review, formulation of solution context, identification of solution alternatives and their assessment, technology selection, and subsequent ownership of detailed design and associated transition support into early life.
• Provides architectural management and rationalisation of the estate, managing risks and gaps, overlaps in capability, reducing cost and increasing value, informing development / investment etc.
• Maintains and manages knowledge of the overall technology estate; using appropriate tools to record and maintain information on the estate including purpose, development technology, integration requirements, support mode etc. working closely with service management and service delivery.
• Acts as a member of the design authority within our architectural governance processes.
• Responsible for identifying, comparing, and recommending solution options, performing high level options analyses, business capability impact analysis and developing conceptual architectures.
  
  To be considered as the Solutions Architect you will need:
• To be a self-starter, curious and independent team player, able to effectively prioritise activities & requests.
• Strong background in solution architecture with experience of architectural frameworks (TOGAF), integration, middleware and cloud technologies
• Proven experience that includes working directly with cloud native and services, including serverless architectures, on one or more cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure is preferable).
• Ability to identify architecture driven improvement opportunities to continually improve service quality and reduce costs.
• Experience in mentoring and leading others, and supporting the growth of high performing teams.
• Experience working in a product-centric environment or with human-centred design principles.
• Experience of large transformational projects with multi-year system migration planning
If you consider yourself to be someone who is a technology specialist, who has fantastic communication skills and is used to working with a mix of non-technical people and technical people, then please apply via the button shown.

Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue.