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About the Role

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive technology solutions that address specific business needs, serving as a liaison between technical and business aspects. They analyze business needs, identify tech solutions, and design implementation plans, collaborating with various teams to achieve organizational objectives and ensure solutions align with business requirements.

Responsibilities

Defines solutions to complex business problems using a wide range of artefacts, methods and tools.
Facilitates the structuring of business problems to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are clearly understood and aligned with business objectives.
Ensures that strategic transformational change is embedded within IAG Tech, influencing and leveraging relationships to gain buy-in of internal and external stakeholders.
Manages key supplier relationships, ensuring the quality of supplier deliverables meets Group standards.
Provides expertise in driving forward solutions for applications, ensuring alignment with the business and technical strategic vision and goals.
Ensures best in class solutions that minimise customisation, through Solution design that integrates world-class applications.
Supports the business in understanding and interpreting the capabilities within a specific domain.
Communicates and negotiates with all relevant stakeholders to ensure a balance of usability and fit with the enterprise architecture.
Reviews functional specifications to ensure alignment to business and technical requirements.
Collaborates through a trusted business partnering approach, proactively leveraging key relationships to ensure business, information and technology domain architecture is strategically aligned.
Ensures sufficient quality review points are built into projects and all interdependencies have been considered.
Partners with the project team to plan system testing tasks, auditing implemented solutions to ensure planned benefits are realised.
Builds strategic supplier relationships where third-party work or packages involve significant architectural decisions.
Ensures adherence to architectural principles, standards, best practice and roadmaps.
Delivers on a number of projects, the breadth and complexity of which will vary depending on experience.

Requirements

Forming strong stakeholder relationships, with a proven ability of influencing and persuading 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.
Extracting requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in a succinct manner.
Ability to recognise priorities and guide others towards the accomplishment of strategic business goals and objectives.
Embracing and managing both business and IT change as necessary to help shape future direction.
Ability to work under pressure.
Innovation - transforming industry trends into practical, cost-effective solutions.
Identifies and contributes to the continual improvement of analysis capability across the organisation.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to explain complex IT/technology solutions in a coherent manner.
Strong ability to work under pressure in a changing environment.
Strong risk management skills.
Displays confidence and resilience, plus an energy to deliver results.
Confident working under own initiative, as well as part of a team.

Skills

Azure or AWS cloud platforms
Agile delivery environments
Structured delivery environments

Location

Remote
Office

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

5+ years in an architecture role

Benefits

Competitive salary
Bonus
Staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways and group airlines
Up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family
Flexible bank holiday policy
LinkedIn learning access
Rosetta Stone Language courses access
Free onsite gym facility
UNMIND app access
Community of Mental Health First Aiders
Discounts on Apple
Cinema tickets
Perks at work

About the Company

IAG Cargo is one of the world’s largest airfreight logistics organisations.
We move cargo that positively impacts society worldwide.
We are the logistics and cargo brand of International Airlines Group (Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, Level and Vueling).
Powered by five airlines, our reach is truly global.
We believe in keeping the world’s economies turning, and do everything with determined attitudes, curious minds, collaborative actions and heartfelt pride.
Join us at our globally recognised logistics business, that is Trusted to Deliver.

Equal Opportunity

Our recruitment procedures positively support our diversity and inclusion agenda.
All candidates are considered strictly on their merits in relation to the criteria for the role, treated fairly and consistently, and have their individual needs responded to throughout the process.