The Company
Our client is a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language.
Our purpose is unlocking global understanding. By combining cultural understanding, client understanding and technical understanding, our services and technology assist our clients to acquire and retain customers, deliver engaging user experiences, maintain compliance, and gain actionable insights into their data and content.
We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all of the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.
Job Purpose
The Group Solutions Architect will be responsible for leading and shaping the overall solution architecture and design across multiple Transformation programme and projects. The successful candidate will act as the primary Design Authority, proactively engaging with an array of business and technology personnel across internal teams and delivery partners. In partnership with other Group Architects, the successful candidate will maintain and govern the integrity of the Enterprise Architecture aligned to the overall strategic direction of the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce or govern high quality, fit for purpose solution designs, meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
- Provide design leadership to solution architects working within the delivery teams and associated technology products.
- Translate business strategies and priorities into Target Architectures by delivering coherent solution designs, reference architectures, patterns, and standards.
- Be ‘the go-to person’ for all the integration related topics, information and knowledge of the integration technologies, platforms, and architecture.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver comprehensive solutions that are scalable, secure, and dependable.
- Ensure solutions meet business needs and architecturally compliant.
- Develop and maintain high quality architecture documentation.
- Promote the value and benefits of the company’s Enterprise Architecture to make it sustainable in the long term.
Skills & Experience
- Must be degree educated within an IT or Business-related field.
- Proven experience as a Senior Solutions Architect or similar role.
- Demonstrable experience of ArchiMate, BPMN and UML modelling notations.
- Significant experience in middleware, information architecture and application development.
- Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, message and event-driven services.
- Capable of presenting to technical design authority and similar governance forums.
- Proficiency in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) and integration technologies (e.g. MuleSoft).
- Strong and proven ability to work under pressure.
- Must have good people skills to lead groups and negotiate and build consensus.
- TOGAF 9.x certification or similar is desirable.
- If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at this company.
Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career.
In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise.
