SOLUTION ARCHITECT

The Opportunity Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.’ You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges. At a certified Great Place to Work you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations. About Us Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy. As a Solution Architect at Informed you will: Experience and understanding of modern software delivery practices (e.g. Scrum, Agile Delivery phases, Kanban, DevOps, GDS Service Manual etc.). Experience and understanding of solution architecture concepts. Hands-on experience architecting modern, innovative, digital services. Experience with on-premise, hybrid and cloud hosted systems. Comfortable leading collaborative design and decision making with clients. Understanding of modern programming languages, cloud technologies, CI/CD Pipelines, and monitoring/logging Experience in estimating, planning, resourcing and/or costing projects is an advantage. Use your experience to lead, coach and mentor more junior team members. You should be able to speak on behalf of technical teams in a non-technical manner and facilitate relationships with stakeholders. You should have the ability to work collaboratively, proactively and be flexible in responding to changing needs and priorities. Excellent work planning capabilities and time management skills. Ability to balance conflicting deadlines and priorities. A meticulous attention to detail. Punctuality, reliability, and a clear commitment to your role. Benefits Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits. These can include: InformedACADEMY – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications. Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support. Hybrid working* Private Health Care Cover* Generous life assurance cover* Gym Membership* Weekly office lunch Onsite massage sessions 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays Sabbatical Leave Scheme* Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay* Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay* Company Pension Contribution Profit Share Scheme Payment of professional subscriptions Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals *Qualifying period applies Culture We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian. We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times. We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important. Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.