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Location: Leamington Spa/Warwickshire/West Midlands
Duration: 6 Months
IR35: Inside
Our client, a multinational automobile manufacturer which produces luxury vehicles and SUVs is urgently seeking a Network Solution Architect with a proven track record as a Solution Architect delivering appropriate software application designs integrating cross technology solutions covering a variety of technologies.
This is a client facing role which the successful candidate must have the ability to demonstrate delivery of pragmatic solutions that balance project / programme constraints against strategic direction and, as required, successfully reach agreement compromise with stakeholders, Technical analysis at project feasibility stage including systems and technical input required for business cases and associated documentation and will contribute to the development of IT roadmaps, reference Network architectures, patterns and standards to support industry best practice on a proactive basis for Intelligent Process Automation.
Key Skills/Knowledge the successfull candidate must have:
- Educated to bachelor’s degree level or above preferably in a computing, systems or science / engineering related subject.
- Relevant and current software development / engineering experience.
- High quality designs encompassing full error handling, monitoring and logging.
- Good understanding of best practices for development of security standards compliant systems
- Proven ability to identify practical solutions and improvements that benefit the organisation and express complex ideas in clear business language.
- Proven ability to think strategically, analyse data and information and develop and deliver appropriate, innovative and effective solutions.
- Experience in setting and governing technical standards in RPA and / or coding or other Digital technologies.
- Experience in leading or supervising technical teams.
- Ability to work to strict deadlines in order to achieve objectives, and to drive others to do so also
- Excellent collaborator who is able to bring cross functional teams together to create the optimal outcome
- Adaptable to changing circumstances and environment, dealing with conflicting priorities for self and others
- Use initiative to proactively address issues as they occur on a day-to-day basis
- Experience of working in transformation projects using agile methodologies in a demanding corporate environment
- Willingness to investigate and experiment with new and emerging technology, ensuring that at all times the IPA COE is leading edge.
- Experience in leading teams or developing more junior colleagues.
- Ability to work with offshore delivery teams.
Responsibilities
- Represent and explain the Network technical requirements and constraints of the project / programme to stakeholders and advice on any associated technical constraints, risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies in a timely manner.
- Produce robust fit for purpose high level and detailed functional and technical system design covering Integration, Data, Infrastructure / Platform and Security to functional and non-functional requirements in an Agile and / or waterfall project / programme environments and following internal IT processes.
- Represent the project / programme designs to the IT Design Authority and demonstrate fitness for purpose and compliance to reference Network architectures, patterns and standards.
- Act as the Network lead technology consultant for the Intelligent Process Automation as well as assigned specific projects and programmes.
- Produce supporting technical outputs as required, from high level business facing documentation to low level detailed specifications, which may include but are not limited to: server build sheets, firewall configuration specifications, DNS, interface design, contracts and definition, load balancing specification and certificate requirements.
- Work with 3rd party vendors and suppliers to ensure solution compliance to JLR reference architectures, patterns and standards and meeting information security policies.
- Assist in creation of Network solution assessment criteria for product selections.
- As appropriate assist / lead technical workshops and meetings with internal technical customers and stakeholders and external suppliers and vendors.
- Support IPA Discovery with definition of process design documentation maximizing the benefits of process automation.
- Support IPA Delivery ensuring Technical Resources are maintaining effective configuration standards, delivery of process automation, peer testing, user acceptance testing and deployment into production.
- Support the process automation through the hypercare process ensuring the process automation operates effectively and aligned to business expectations in a production environment
