Solution Architect
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Job Summary
In this role, the Solution Architect will understand the customer needs and with the Business Analysts and Experience Designers translate them into innovate and exceptional solutions alighted to Leighton’s technical direction.
Who We Are
Leighton is an award winning integrated technology business. We create some of the world’s most cutting-edge software products. We use vision, creativity and expertise to connect businesses with their customers and drive commercial success across multiple touchpoints. Working with us isn’t just about achieving the end result, it’s about what we do to get there, changing the way you think about your business and the benefits of digital forever.
Our Values
The Leighton culture defines how we do business and how we interact with our colleagues and customers. It makes us unique and provides us with a competitive advantage
• We act with honesty and truth, always!
• We are a canny family who really cares in a geeky, crazy, fun kind of way
• We nurture our amazing people to be the best version of themselves
• Passionate about what we do, proud of what we achieve
• Our curiosity inspires the amazing
Main Duties & Responsibilities
You will be responsible for the following; however this is not an exhaustive list and you maybe required to carry out other duties that the business deem fit.
• Ensuring that the architectures for Leighton solutions follow the direction set by the Enterprise Architect and are innovative, robust, scalable and supportable whilst providing a best in class user experience and maintaining the overall integrity of the Leighton technology stack.
• Brief development teams on the product architecture and support / review / check detailed designs and adjusting the architecture in the face of requirements changes and implementation issues, through to launch.
• Working with delivery teams assisting them in aligning to the overall solution architecture and providing expertise to steer the implementation of the agreed architecture.
• Contribute enthusiastically to our continuous improvement of coding practices, application quality, tooling and agile processes.
• Shaping the future vision of the Leighton technology direction.
Relationships
• Project Delivery team
• Enterprise Architect
• Development team
• Commercial Team
• Customers
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Experience organising and performing prototyping and proof of concepts
• Experience with Agile methodologies (TDD, SCRUM, Kanban, etc)
• Experience using and deploying on Cloud based platforms
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational database systems
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques
• Experience building server-side web applications and detailed knowledge of more than one programming language
• An ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Experience working on technical projects within a team
• Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as subversion or git
Behaviours
• An open and genuine communicator
• Able to take responsibility for your actions
• Always learning and wanting to improve
• Takes responsibility for own development
• Love what you do
• Value and support your team
• Embrace who you are
• Open minded and willing to explore new ideas