Solutions Architect
Location: Cheltenham, UK (Hybrid working)
Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, Discount scheme.
Role Overview:
The Solutions Architect will play a crucial role in IT Portfolio and Planning, working with Business Unit (BU) Information Systems (IS) teams and stakeholders to translate requirements into fit-for-purpose IT solutions that meet business expectations, align with Group Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and best practices/policies.
Responsibilities include:
- Ensuring IT solutions align with strategy, standards, and industry best practices
- Identifying and assessing solution options and gaining architecture approval
- Scoping and governing feasibility assessments
- Assessing effort, risk, costs, and complexity of IT solutions
- Defining architecture blueprints where required
- Defining non-fundamental requirements and assessing their impact
- Providing implementation oversight to ensure delivery as agreed
- Offering technical and architectural support and guidance
- Contributing to strategy, standards, policies, and approaches for world-class IT solutions
Desired Experience:
- Solid experience in Solution architecture for strategic planning and solution sizing/estimating
- Experience in IT shared services or MSP with a record of delivering IT solutions
- Deep understanding of Microsoft core technologies (e.g., Entra ID, Intune, Teams, SharePoint, Azure fundamentals)
Success Factors:
- Demonstrate Company Core Values
- Relevant qualification or professional expertise
- Current Microsoft D365 and Azure certifications
- Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences
- Ability to influence and engage stakeholders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proactive, results-oriented, adaptable, and collaborative
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multinational industrial engineering Group specializing in steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping, and fluid technologies.
Our purpose is to create sustainable value by engineering a more efficient, safer, and sustainable world. Our technologies support critical industrial processes across industries like Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors, and Healthcare, serving customers in 165 countries.
We promote an inclusive culture and values, supporting our colleagues to make a difference for each other, our customers, communities, suppliers, our planet, and shareholders, fostering an inclusive and equitable working environment.
Additional Benefits:
Competitive salary, discretionary bonus, flexible working, private healthcare, pension, life assurance, Share Ownership Plan, onsite parking, flexible benefits, and discounts. We also support inclusion through various initiatives and are a Disability Confident Employer.