Solutions Architect

Job Title: Solution ArchitectLocation: Hybrid, 2-3 days a week in London or Madrid OfficesEmployment Status: Full TimeDepartment: Digital and Information TechnologyReporting to: Portfolio ManagerAbout the Role:One of Carbon60's clients, a leading airline group within the cargo division is looking for a Solution Architect to join the team.As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive technology solutions that address specific business needs. You will serve as a liaison between the technical and business aspects of new solutions, analysing business needs, identifying tech solutions, and designing a comprehensive plan for implementation. You will collaborate with various teams, such as Developers, Project Managers, and Analysts, to ensure effective implementation of the solution, achieving the organisation's objectives.Key Responsibilities:Build, develop, and maintain sustainable respectful stakeholder relationships.Ensure full adherence to all governance, standards, and processes across the organization.Define solutions to complex business problems using a wide range of artifacts, methods, and tools.Facilitate the structuring of business problems to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are clearly understood.Maintain a view of business and technical capabilities and applications within a specialist business domain.Ensure strategic transformational change is embedded within the organisation.Manage key supplier relationships, ensuring the quality of supplier deliverables meets Group standards.Provide expertise in driving forward solutions for applications, ensuring alignment with the business and technical strategic vision and goals.Ensure best-in-class solutions that minimize customisation through Solution design that integrates world-class applications.Communicate and negotiate with all relevant stakeholders to ensure a balance of usability and fit with the enterprise architecture.Partner with the project team to plan system testing tasks and audit implemented solutions to ensure planned benefits are realised.Build strategic supplier relationships where third-party work or packages involve significant architectural decisions.Skills and Qualifications:Strong stakeholder relationship skills with a proven ability to influence and persuade internally and externally.Effective senior stakeholder management, balancing and finding compromises between opposing views and opinions.Business partnering, working as a valued partner with senior stakeholders across a diverse operation.Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex IT/technology solutions coherently.Strong risk management skills and the ability to work under pressure in a changing environment.Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.Certification in TOGAF or an equivalent qualification in IT architecture.5+ years in an architecture role with hands-on experience with Azure or AWS cloud platforms.Proficiency in operating within both Agile and Structured delivery environments.Desirable Experience:Experience working in the Logistics, Freight, Courier industry.Experience with major technology and business change programs.Salary: £68,000 p/a + benefitsLocation: West LondonHybrid work model (2-3 days in the office)