Solution Architecture SHLJP

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This role is for a Solution Architect with a 12-month contract, offering a pay rate of "£X/hour." Remote work is available. Requires 10+ years in software delivery, expertise in Azure, and knowledge of the Trading Business. TOGAF certification preferred.

Location:

Houston, TX, United States

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Our client is advancing its Powering Progress strategy on the journey to net‑zero emissions. Achieving this ambition requires uniting strategic and technical expertise across data, strategy, architecture, and innovation. This integration is essential to drive the transformative shifts needed in IT. As part of this journey, we are seeking a skilled and seasoned Solution Architect to enhance automation and fully harness data and innovation.

As a Solution Architect, you’ll be a key technical leader providing end‑to‑end architecture development, consultancy, and assurance across projects, ensuring that applications are well‑designed and aligned with standards and reference architecture. You will be working specifically in the Products portfolio for the client’s Trading and Supply business. You will specifically work on a project team implementing a global Energy Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) solution on Azure to create a scalable, secure, and strategic landscape that enables the transformation of the Trading capabilities.

• Architecture and Technical Leadership
  • Provide strong leadership skills, including fostering collaboration, driving consensus, and effectively communicating complex technical concepts.
  • Lead in your area of expertise and play a key role in shaping and transforming the role itself—identifying opportunities, driving innovation, and delivering impact beyond the initial remit.
  • Serve as the primary contact for architectural aspects of IT projects.
  • Integrate business process, data, application, technical, and information security dimensions into cohesive IT solutions.
  • Ensure solution architectures are documented using standard templates and tooling complying with architectural standards.
  • Guide detailed designers and business analysts during the design phase.
  • Review and formally approve detailed solution designs.
  • Support Lead Architect and participate in Architecture Review Board sessions as required.
• Reference Model Stewardship
  • Actively contribute to the documentation, enhancement, and maintenance of Reference Models in Bizz Design or any other standard tooling.
  • Elevate project deliverables to conceptual and logical architecture levels.
• Technology Foresight
  • Monitor emerging IT technologies and apply this insight to design future‑ready solutions.
• Standards Alignment
  • Stay informed of developments in IT standards and services, ensuring they are incorporated into solution designs.
• Community Engagement
  • Champion architectural excellence within the organisation.
  • Engage with stakeholders to address architectural concerns and drive strategic improvements.

• Knowledge of the end‑to‑end Trading Business from deal inception through to settlement.

• 10+ years in software and architecture delivery.
• Own and drive technical architecture, design, and standards for software products in Commodities Trading.
• Confidently lead architecture decisions across portfolios, managing divergent opinions.
• Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value.
• TOGAF (or similar…