Job Description

Right across infrastructure, there's a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
As an organisation, there is little we don't do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.
This role is in our Technology department, our IT teams design, manage and optimise IT systems to support the smooth and secure operations of our Group.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As a Solution Architect, you'll play a vital part in understanding the challenges and opportunities our business faces, turning them into clear, purposeful designs, and guiding them all the way from concept to implementation.
We'll look to you to gain a strong grasp of our current IT landscape across the Group and use that insight to help craft a future that's innovative, sustainable, and robust.
In this role, you'll have the chance to lead the design and delivery of solutions that are as ambitious as they are achievable. You'll get to stretch your thinking across our technologies and platforms, helping shape technical change through the right governance processes and making sure your ideas land clearly with the people who need to hear them.
You'll be an essential part of project teams, acting as the key architectural voice and guiding delivery through collaboration with project managers, partners and vendors. Your advice will help the business understand what's possible and how best to get there, particularly when weighing up technical decisions within a broader programme of work.
We're also counting on you to stay current - in best practices, industry trends, and emerging technologies - so your voice continues to shape our IT strategy. When decisions need to be made, you'll be there to provide timely, insightful recommendations that help move things forward with confidence.
What you'll bring

• Ability to produce high quality technical documentation and design specifications.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of technologies (e.g. Azure, Salesforce, Oracle, MSSQL)
• Significant experience of integration, consolidation, and transit of data within systems.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as Solution Architect in positions with comparable complexity.
• Experience of different IT delivery approaches (waterfall, agile etc) and software development lifecycles.
• Strong Application Architecture background demonstrated through a proven track record of leading, influencing and creating architecture standards incl. solution, data and interfaces.
• Sound knowledge of computer science fundamentals including basic infrastructure and networking.
• University Degree preferably in a business or technical subject or any comparable education.

What's in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000's of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car or allowance and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We're one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We're responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We're open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We're together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We're ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you're a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It's an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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