Solution Architect

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 30 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

Version 1 has a strong capabilities program which focuses on the careers of our team. As a Solution Architect, you will be expected to play a leading role in this capability and driving strategy. For this, we will provide you with a dedicated career plan that will challenge you but will help you achieve what you want in your career and give you the opportunity to shape your career.

In this role, you will need

• Expert technical skills and proven experience across the architecture disciplines of Application, Integration, Data and Security and proven experience bringing all these views together into an organised IT architecture.
• Proven experience architecting business applications and services to run on complex large scale on-premise and cloud/hybrid cloud infrastructures;
• Proven experience providing advice and support to the various business and technology stakeholders in designing future ICT platforms and business support services;
• Proven experience working with architecture tools, frameworks and methodologies with the ability to define, publish, and maintain high quality architecture documentation;
• Proven experience in producing design documentation in advance of implementation in both waterfall and agile project delivery.
• Proven experience of functional application architecture design patterns and leading practices;
• Strong understanding of designing software for non‑functional requirements (e.g. system performance, availability, scalability, etc.);
• Proven experience of architecting on large transformation programmes.
• Knowledge and understanding of architecting software to run across multiple platform technologies (e.g. VMWare, Red Hat Open Shift, IMDG, Redis, 3
  
  Scale, SSO/Keycloak, OIDC, Identity Management, LDAP & Active Directory), database technologies (e.g. Maria
  
  DB/Galera, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Ingres), application technologies (JBoss, Springboot), web UI technologies (e.g. Angular SPA) and operational knowledge of CICD pipelines and Jenkins build operations;
• Knowledge and understanding of SOA and microservices architecture patterns and practical application of these patterns to designing optimal solutions.
• Knowledge and understanding of IT governance processes with experience providing architectural governance across projects;
• Ability to oversee the implementation of a solution architecture based on business requirements and the Department’s ICT strategy;
• Understanding of application programming interface (API), micro‑services and interoperability solutions;
• Understanding of Federation and federated identity providers (local, social, other external);
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills with the ability to engage with various stakeholders to define and get agreement on technical aspects of IT architecture;
• Ability to support the Department in forming the future strategic direction of its ICT and digital services;
• Effective Communication both orally and in writing in the English Language.

• Work closely with clients to assess their current infrastructure, application portfolios, and pain points to define strategic modernization plans.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure designs are implemented with best practices in coding, security, and performance.
• Guide and participate in proof‑of‑concept (PoC) development, helping clients visualize the…