Solutions Architect - FTC

We identify and shape places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them.

This is how we’ve created the UK’s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe.

Our £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country’s pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life.

We’ve honed this ability over 80 years. Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world.

Places where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.

Location:

This role is based in London Victoria, and offers hybrid working, with majority of the working week in the office. We recommend discussing arrangements with the hiring manager.

The Team:

The Strategy and Architecture team, part of Landsec Data and Technology department, is responsible for ensuring that Landsec’s technology architecture is robust, business-aligned, and future-ready, supporting transformation and value delivery across the organisation. Our activities include:

• Defining and maintaining architecture standards across all technology domains

• Reviewing and assuring solution designs for alignment and integrity

• Managing architecture deliverables for business initiatives

• Guiding technology decisions and resolving architectural risks

• Leading architecture governance forums

• Acting as trusted advisors to the business

The role:

The purpose of this role is to lead the design of solutions, governing the development and setting out the strategic direction for Landsec.  Acting as a consultant within multiple business domain (Lifestyle, Workplace, Residential or Group) for a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.

The role is a key function within the Strategy & Architecture team whose purpose is to:

• Ensure that Landsec Tech “do the right things” by delivering technology solutions that deliver the desired business strategy and outcomes.

• Support the design & delivery of technology projects by providing architectural governance to ensure that Landsec Tech “do the right things right”.

The role is responsible for delivering secure solutions at speed into the business, following our corporate standards such as ‘secure by design’, 'cloud first' and ‘AI first’.  In order to accelerate time to market, the role will utilise an agile methodology and both ‘minimum viable product’ and ‘iterative’ principles.

The individual must be both technically proficient and solution focussed, motivated by finding coherent and strategic approaches to complex business challenges or new opportunities in line with Landsec’s digital ambitions. Desirable skills include architecture governance and stakeholder management.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Leads the development and maintenance of a technology strategy and an outcome driven, commercially focused technology roadmap for their domain.  Ensuring alignment of strategic needs with technology delivery across the entire organisation.

• Leads the identification, evaluation, design and analysis of new solutions, suppliers and delivery methods to extend and refine Landsec’s digital eco-system.

• Responsible for ensuring that the respective business, application, data, security and technology architectures are in line with Landsec’s technology and governance strategies, policies and standards.

• Ensures that projects are aligned to the technology strategy throughout the delivery process and do not duplicate functionality or diverge from the agreed strategy.

• Manges the upkeep of the architecture repository, principles, methods and standards. 

• Ensures that the appropriate solution design and technical documentation are completed and kept up to date.  Adhere to change processes and produce high quality technical documentation.

• Identify and recommend technology innovation experiments, helping to create new products and services and assists in integrating the best of these into steady-state operations for the organisation.

• Review the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement.

• Identifies the organisational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.

Essential Criteria

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, engineering or a related discipline with an information technology focus; or equivalent related experience.

• Senior level Solution architecture experience or lead level experience in disciplines, such as application design and development (web and mobile), enterprise application integration, business analysis, cloud solution architecture, or infrastructure operations in a multi-technology/multi-partner environment.

• Proven experience in Digital Platforms, Enterprise Application Integration, Architecture Governance, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, Application Portfolio Management

• Be able to effectively lead remote teams in a multicultural environment

• Knowledge of software development methodologies and design techniques e.g. UML, Agile etc.

• Understanding of infrastructure and network architecture.

• Proficient on both Windows and Linux operating systems.

• Have the ability to prototype and demonstrate using recognised tools and technologies e.g. JavaScript(Angular/React/Next.js), .Net, Powershell, SharePoint, Azure, Power BI, Power Platform and Umbraco CMS.

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs (REST/SOAP), Open Data, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and data analytics.

• Experience in building Minimal Viable Products (MVP) and being able to demonstrate back to stakeholders.

• Able to facilitate the discovery of security vulnerabilities in web and mobile applications and maintain an appropriate security posture.

• Certification as Azure Solutions Architect Expert with proven experience designing solutions on Azure and leading the delivery.

• Desirable:

  • Line management experience of teams and matrix management in delivering of technology solutions

  • Experience of working in the Real Estate or investment management sectors

  • Certification in and knowledge of architecture and information management practices and EA frameworks e.g. TOGAF.

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