Digital Solutions Architect

Fixed Term Contract / Secondment
24 months
Full time
35 hours per week
£54,007.96 - £76,246.53
Hybrid - home based and Birmingham
Corporate Functions

The Law Society is looking to recruit a Digital Solution Architect to providing advice and support (predominantly to the Member Experience (ME) workstream and the TDA), in relation to digital solutions architecture, solution options and selection, agile technology roadmaps, and solution and development overlaps and integrations.

You will provide target solution architectures across the ME workstream, solution choice and discovery advice to stream. You will also be responsible for providing cross-stream awareness of solution overlaps and integration decisions, advice on Agile architecture, technology choices, dependencies and issues in development.

Must have:

  • An in-depth understanding of all aspects of the digital technology, integrations & solution landscape, with a demonstrable commitment to keeping this knowledge up to date.
  • Experience in providing solution architecture advice, prototyping and support in digital environments, preferably with regard to common digital technologies such as CMS, DXP, CRM, BI, eMarketing, CDN, cloud hosting, LMS, ETL, etc.
  • Experience in multidisciplinary architectures including business, data & information, technical infrastructure, cloud, software development
  • Experience in programmatic planning and risk / dependency management, specifically across significant agile portfolios of digital delivery.
  • Experience in working with Technical Design Authorities in advising across a spectrum of solution issues, including working with delivery management, InfoSec, Information Management and Assurance and Risk colleagues
  • Experience and understanding of the business change challenges of technology and an ability to take wider business considerations into account when giving advice.
  • Experience of working within TOGAF
  • Practical and proven knowledge of solution and data integration and understanding of the challenges in this and typical architectures and use cases around digital integration.
  • Proven expertise, advocacy and implementation of agile architectures, ideally with experience of coaching in Agile methods in their application and roll-out.

To apply for this role, please submit a CV and cover letter clearly demonstrating how you meet the requirements for the role. 

We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Vacancy closing date: 16/12/2018, 23:55
The Law Society is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

This opportunity is closed to applicants.