Solutions Architect

Job Description

The Architecture team at ScottishPower is responsible for providing technology services across all UK businesses. This includes solution architecture, technology evaluation, and strategic group alignment.

As a Solutions Architect, you will play a crucial role in influencing key architectural decisions and ensuring group alignment through industry trend analysis and business engagements.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and review architecture of new solutions with a focus on modern-day platform requirements
• Direct the team in researching, reviewing, and recommending new solutions
• Provide architectural guidance on projects ranging from minor initiatives to major multi-million programs
• Supporting the yearly IT budget and planning process, analysing solutions and technologies to make recommendations based on organisational needs
• Lead product/application evaluation and selection activities, preparing presentations, documents, diagrams, and models to communicate analysis and recommendations
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand software application needs, whilst working with business and IT managers on the selection, design, development, and implementation of new solutions
• Responsible for identifying and developing new capabilities through technology trends and vendor collaboration, defining high-level migration plans to address gaps between current and future states.

What you'll bring

• Experience across multiple technology disciplines, including one or more of the following:
  • Networking and multi-site hosting database architecture
  • Cloud computing
  • Data & analytics
  • Integration & middleware
  • IT security
  • Digital platforms
• Ability to research, analyse, and recommend new technologies and software applications
• Experience in creating and maintaining technical architecture documentation
• Up-to-date knowledge of IT security industry trends and threats
• Knowledge of enterprise technology architecture, information principles, and processes
• Experience working across multiple business areas and with senior stakeholders

Minimum Criteria

• Significant experience of Technology Lifecycle across modern domains such as cloud, containers, application development
• Significant IT experience gained from working in a number of Technical Client Service based roles in a technical function
• Record of academic achievement, including some form of recognised qualification from further education with a strong technical degree
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Numerate and able to deal with finances for the purposes of managing budgets or contracts with IT costing, suppliers
• Must be a proven team player to work, promote and consolidate efficient team working relationships

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to 'nudge' financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.