Solution Architect

Role: Solution Architect – D365
Salary: Up to £80’000
Location: Bristol/Devon – Hybrid

We are looking for a Solutions Architect to join our clients talented team. you will be responsible for architecting and designing solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements in support of a given initiative and the firm’s strategic direction.

Experience Required:

• Proven experience working as a Lead Developer and Architect.
• Proven ability to architect, govern and deliver solutions to meet business needs.
• Experience with working with agile delivery teams to product development and evolution.
• In-depth understanding of coding languages.
• Excellent communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Analytical mindset that explores all considerations when creating solutions.
• Confident and effective persuasion and negotiation skills.
• Experience supporting technological change across a business.
• Understanding of user journeys to create and deliver better, more joined up solutions.
• Excellent communication skills (to internal/external stakeholders).
• MS Dynamics 365
• Peppermint CX365
• Azure DevOps
• Active Directory
• Azure Active Directory
• Proficiency in working with legal-specific applications such as iManage, 3E, and Intapp, including configuration, customisation, and integration with other systems.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, govern and deliver solutions to meet business needs.
• Build and integrate information systems to meet the company’s needs.
• Assess the systems architecture currently in place and work with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.
• Provide support and guidance to development teams on architectural elements.
• Research current and emerging technologies, and propose changes where needed.
• Inform stakeholders about any problems with technical solutions being implemented.
• Assess the business impact that certain technical choices have.
• Find solutions to business challenges by evaluating emerging technologies and the evolution of current technologies.
• Contribute to strategic plans for technology, which satisfy the current and ongoing needs of the firm’s business strategy, and the current and future capabilities of technology.
• Define future vision roadmap for optimal applications of technology to meet business needs.
• Evolve, direct, and govern the development of frameworks, standards, policies, principles, and procedures that guide technology decisions and maximise reuse of technology.
• Chair solution forums, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and consistency across organisational and design boundaries.
• Develop the component, integration and technical architecture for project and platform initiatives, and collaborates with project teams to realise them.
• Identify necessary non-functional requirements.
• Produce high level design deliverables that enable development teams to produce products that are flexible, scalable, and secure.
• Recommend options for the resolution and prevention of technical debt and to facilitate rapid development and implementation