Solutions Architect

Job description

ENGIE is a leading service business in the UK across public, private and healthcare sectors. We have always been committed to one mission: to develop innovative solutions that improve the efficiency of cities, buildings, industry and infrastructure across the UK. 

Do you think that you have the energy to succeed at ENGIE? 

Joining ENGIE could be the start of a rewarding journey with Europe's largest FM & Energy Services business & a Global leader in Energy. Whether your background is Technical, FM, Energy or in a business support function, we believe that each and every member of our team plays a key role in the future of our company. If you are a motivated, customer focused individual and want to take your career to the next level then we want to hear from you.

ENGIE are recruiting for a Solutions Architect to be based in North Tyneside Council, Quadrant East, The Silverlink North, Cobalt Business Park, North Tyneside, NE27 0BY.

This is a permanent, full time role working 37.5 hours a week, Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm and on offer will be a salary of £45,000 - £65,000 dependent on skills and experience.  This role will report into the Head of Digital Strategy.

The main duties and responsibilities are:

·  In conjunction with the Head of Digital Strategy, acts as the Technical Design Authority
·  Uses the appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensures they are applied effectively
·  Designs infrastructure solutions as part of wider projects: carry out detailed design for areas of own expertise and contribute to overall design and integration of the wider solution
·  Provides guidance to the development team during the systems development life cycle
·  Ensure designs are aligned with the enterprise architecture principles
·  Directly influence the change budget for future ICT capital investment 
·  Develop transformational roadmaps across one or more system or technology domains, defining activities, investments and decisions required to deliver against the target state over a 3-5 year timeframe
·  Excellent communication and stakeholder management, including supplier management
·  Define product and interoperability standards and best practice for one or more domains in alignment with architecture frameworks
·  Proactively takes responsibility, owns any issues arising, and follows through to resolve them
·  Works collaboratively with a range of people to support the wider business agenda
·  Always remains focused on the most critical / impactful task to hand using all resources efficiently and effectively
·  Proactively identifies areas for improvement, shares lessons learnt with colleagues and encourages others to do the same
·  Evaluates impact analysis on major design options and assesses and manages associated risks
·  Controls the quality of the infrastructure design and implementation work of both internal and external suppliers to ensure the required design is implemented
·  Develops the technical capability within the organisation

For more information about ENGIE please visit:http://www.engie.com/en/candidates-area/

Qualifications and experience required:

·  Understanding and ideally experience in agile delivery within an overall architectural framework
·  Experienced in a structured design environment and the typical risks that must be managed
·  Ideally, Enterprise Architecture professional qualifications, with knowledge and active use of industry frameworks and tools, e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Abacus
·  Experience in driving and delivering technological change 
·  Skilled and knowledgeable across architectural areas comprising Application, Technology and Solution domains ,  Microsoft, SaaS/PaaS approaches, analytics
·  Strong ability to write, guide and review  design documentation and test plans 
·  Appreciation and understanding of local government applications.  (the Council’s existing capability is listed , though experience in equivalents will also be valuable)
·  Service applications: Housing, Revenues & Benefits, Social care, Planning, Leisure etc. (currently largely Northgate, Liquid Logic, IDOX, Uniform, Horizons)
·  Customer service applications (e.g. Lagan)
·  Finance/ERP/HR applications (Oracle eBusiness Suite, ASH)
·  Good understanding of security, identity and authorisation requirements including around Government protective marking, General Data Protection Regulation, handling of sensitive data, standards such as ISO27000 and techniques such as SAML2.0
·  At minimum, a good understanding of, and ideally direct experience of operations , design and delivery of a range of the following technologies and techniques
·  Advanced knowledge of Windows Server Family and Features
·  Virtualisation Technologies, administration and management (VMware)
·  SAN Configuration, administration and management
·  Firewall administration and management (Nokia Checkpoint  &  Juniper)
·  Citrix Server and Remote access products (Presentation 4, XenApp, Access Gateway)
·  Veritas Backup Exec administration and management.  Enterprise Class backup solutions
·  Appreciation for  Microsoft Enterprise Product family (SCCM, SCOM, OCS, Exchange 2010, Forefront family)
·  Appreciation of moves towards web-based delivery of applications (SaaS/PaaS) including Google Apps for Work/Office 365 type systems.
·  Understanding and ideally experience in the deployment of cloud and hybrid cloud environments 
·  Data Centre Management, monitoring and capacity planning solutions and technologies
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For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. There is no re-location package with this job role. ENGIE do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

This job advert is supported by the ENGIE Resourcing Team. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to ENGIE Managers.