Solutions Architect

Description

About Us 

We are System C, a proud British business on a mission to connect and transform health and care outcomes for all through our market leading software.  

We care about what we do, and that goes for our team members too. We take our role in public digital transformation seriously. We’re in it for the long haul and pride ourselves on how we strive to be better, every day.   

Put simply, our mission is to deliver technology with the power to connect and transform health and care outcomes for all. 

The Role 

As a Solutions Architect, you will report to the Director of Solutions Architecture within Group Architecture.  

While your role entails a broad scope, you will focus primarily, but not exclusively, on System C’s social care solutions. Your responsibilities will include detailed analysis and design of System C’s applications, their data flows, hosting environments and integrations with other systems.  

You will establish and maintain solution documentation and formulate migration plans to deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective implementations in Microsoft Azure.  

Collaborating with other Technical Leads and Solutions Architects, you will promote best practices and help accelerate the cloud vision for all products as part of the overarching technical and product strategy, focusing on System C’s social care solutions.  

We're thrilled to invite a talented Solutions Architect to join us. The role level would suit a Developer with a background in Microsoft technologies and Azure, looking to move into solution design. Or someone who has recently moved into a Solutions Architect role looking to continue their development.  

Location: Hybrid

Responsibilities 

• Build a detailed knowledge of current application architectures and establish technical solution documentation for use internally and within customer/bid documents.  
• Use your experience of Microsoft Azure to design go-to architectures for product migration from existing hosting environments.  
• Work with Software Architects, Platform Engineers and development teams to plan and execute the cloud migration strategy.  
• Be involved in software feature design to establish acceptance criteria for non-functional requirements such as: Security, Performance, Telemetry and monitoring.  
• Map and document data flows between interconnected systems for end-to-end visibility.  
• Work with R&D utilising Scaled Agile product development methods, defining and ensuring the understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria for development.  

Experience  

The role level would suit a Developer with a background in Microsoft technologies and Azure, looking to move into solution design. Or someone who has recently moved into a Solutions Architect role looking to continue their development.  

Technical 

• Experience with data architectures and data flow design between multiple systems.  
• Microsoft Azure technologies crossing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS paradigms.  
• Experience in database technologies including Microsoft SQL Server and reporting platforms.  
• HTTP/HTTPS protocols, web applications, services, IIS  
• Experience of RESTful API design with JSON/XML  

Soft Skills 

• You are driven by detail but able to convey complex ideas simply and concisely both verbally and in written form.  
• Have an eagerness to simplify solutions to drive reliability and do things the right way with pragmatism when facing project constraints.  
• Willing to “take the initiative” when action is required to move projects on, and able to weigh several, often conflicting constraints, to make decisions to unblock projects and maintain momentum.  
• A believer in agile principles that result in MVP’s, tested hypotheses, and iterative learning to yield the needed business and technology outcomes.  
• An ability to develop relationships to support efficient delivery of work.

Desirable   

• Some exposure or awareness to CosmosDB. 
• An understanding of the ELK stack for dashboarding telemetry. 
• Swagger specifications, Postman execution and authentication through JWT.  
• Azure certifications or TOGAF beneficial.  

At System C, we prioritise transparency in our job requirements and selection criteria, ensuring they are based solely on the essentials needed for effective job performance. We consciously avoid assumptions that could skew our perception of a candidate’s suitability for hire.

Our recruitment practices are designed to ensure that no applicant is unfairly disadvantaged by procedures or requirements that disproportionately affect protected groups without being essential for the job.

For every position, we develop a detailed job description and person specification. This approach maintains our focus on the true demands of the role and the skills, experience, and qualifications necessary. During interviews, we involve multiple interviewers where possible to further mitigate unintentional bias, thereby promoting a fair and equitable hiring process.