Solutions Designer

About the Role

The Solutions Designer is responsible for solution design of architecture components, providing technical leadership to projects and change delivery. You will contribute to the design of solutions across a portfolio of small and medium sized projects and services, including AI, Automation, Applications, Technologies, Processes, Infrastructure and Application Services. You will understand business requirements and apply agreed solutioning processes to ensure good fit with Enterprise Architecture standards, supporting the development of technology solutions that meet business needs and align with architectural governance.

About You

You translate business and technical requirements into architectural artefacts that achieve business objectives, providing architecture governance for small/medium projects and improvement initiatives.

You help design and analyse solutions architecture across application, infrastructure, data and technology, based on enterprise business strategy, capabilities and standards. You create architectural designs to guide solution development, working out dependencies between business and IT and minimising technical debt at project close.

You design and direct governance activities to ensure solutions architecture assurance and compliance, and facilitate the evaluation and selection of software products and configurations

You work closely with project managers and Architects to ensure execution aligns with commitments throughout the project lifecycle, maintaining a robust architectural runway that supports future business requirements. You provide input into total cost of ownership and consulting support to development teams to ensure alignment with the overall Enterprise Architecture.

About the Department

The IT Services function operates within the Professional Services Department, part of the professional services group that enables and facilitates the success of our students and faculty. Together with other professional service areas, the Enterprise Architecture team aims to deliver value for money through technology, ensuring efficiency, economy, effectiveness, and equity.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.