Solution Architect

Job Description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office at least 2 days a week.

As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Solution Architect

As a Solution Architect you’ll collaborate with all of CityFibre’s Departments to find alternatives and solutions to business challenges, seeking out systems solutions (either internal or external) that can be leveraged to meet business requirements.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, a car allowance, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and business stakeholders to capture, maintain, and evolve current state architecture
• Deliver innovative and pragmatic IT Enterprise Architectures in line with business needs, working within the architecture team
• Evaluate internal functions, systems, business strategies, and IT processes to find improvements that support CityFibre's future strategies and goals
• Ensure alignment between business and technology by linking the business mission, strategy, and processes to the technology strategy, and documenting this using multiple architectural models or views

What you’ll bring to the role

You will bring substantial experience working with systems and solutions deployed in a cloud environment, ideally AWS. Additionally, you will have:
• Proficiency in using Telecoms, IT Industry, and Enterprise Architecture Best Practice methodologies such as TM Forum, ITIL, TOGAF, BPMN, UML, etc
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders
• Extensive experience with SAFe Agile, working in a scaled Scrum or Kanban environment

Diversity, Inclusion Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help! Read more