Solution Architect

Summary

Join Version 1, a leading technology services company, and contribute to the success of global brands. This role requires effective communication with management and executives, translating technical roadmaps into business strategies. You will collaborate with various teams, including solution architects, business analysts, and subcontractors, to design and implement integration solutions. Experience with enterprise data management, event-driven architectures, and API design is essential. Version 1 offers a comprehensive benefits package, including profit sharing, career development opportunities, flexible/remote work options, financial wellbeing initiatives, employee wellbeing schemes, generous leave policies, and educational assistance.

Requirements

• An appreciation of business modelling techniques such as service blueprinting, event storming or business process modelling
• Understand enterprise data and master data management approaches
• Direct experience of event driven architectures (EDA), API management, pub/sub and other integration patterns
• Direct experience of designing REST and GraphQL APIs
• Understanding of the capabilities of different database technologies (relational, document & graph) and when to use each
• Experience and understanding of data migrations & ETL processes

Responsibilities

• Be able to communicate effective with management & C-level executives, avoiding technical jargon, translating technical roadmaps, understanding, aligning and prioritising with business strategies
• Be able to talk to service delivery & account execs and programme managers on programme progress, translating technical roadmaps, highlighting dependencies and offering pragmatic solutions
• Collaborate and coordinate with Solution Architects on solution designs and integration solutions
• Working with Business Analysts to help capture, understand, prioritise and manage business requirements across the enterprise
• Collaborate and liaise with subcontractors in various specialist areas such as service blueprinting, organisational & technical governance, spatial data

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python and Azure
• Understanding of Data architecture patterns such as Data Mesh

Benefits

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more
• Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes