Solution Architect

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

As a Solution Architect you will:

• Lead the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external, and internal customers. 
• Take full responsibility for the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation. 
• Establish policy and strategy for the selection of systems architecture components, and coordinates design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency. 
• Identify and manage evolving needs within business areas, including the ability to deal with changes in priority; and
• Assess and impact changes and make adjustments to delivery plans and targets.
• Design an n-tier application architecture and contribute to the development and delivery of “complex IT applications” involving integrated web-based systems using a Service Oriented Architecture  (SOA);
• Lead projects through envisioning and design phases, ensuring proposed solutions adhere to the designated Enterprise architecture and other relevant policies, strategies and standards during development and deployment phases;
• Create functional/non-functional design components;
• Create logical architecture
• Communicate the overall technical design to governance bodies and technical delivery teams
• Control a multi-team delivery environment to ensure successful end to end solution design and delivery;
• Diagnose system problems in “complex IT applications;”
• Provide guidance, architectural oversight and technical leadership during detailed design, build, test and deployment phases of projects;
• Provide visible technical leadership and design authority within the relevant practice or project; and
• Work with a range of other internal and external resources to design and deliver solutions that best meet an articulated need.

Technical Skills

• Object oriented C#
• .NET Framework, version 3.5 or later
• MS SQL Server 2008 or later
• MS Component Services (WCF)
• HTML/HTML5
• ASP.NET
• CSS
• JQuery
• Angular JS
• MS IIS 7.5 or later
• MS Visual Studio 2010 or later
• SOAP, REST and JSON
• Microsoft Azure Service Bus

Why Version 1?

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• 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.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Ekta Bahl - Talent Acquisition Capability Partner

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