Senior Solution Architect

Description

The role holder will contribute to the architecture of both business systems and group-wide services. Your primary focus will be on aligning business requirements with NCC Group’s long-term IT strategy, ensuring that technology solutions support current and future business objectives.

The Design Authority at NCC Group is a collaborative and enabling function that promotes knowledge sharing, architectural consistency, and alignment across the organization. It acts as a bridge between Global Technical Services teams and business engineering teams, fostering cooperation, standardisation, and the adoption of best practices wherever possible.

You will engage with projects from their earliest stages, providing architectural guidance and ensuring that solutions are designed, developed, and implemented in alignment with NCC Group's strategic goals and enterprise architecture principles.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Solution Architect to lead the review, design, and implementation of solutions across our technology estate. You will be responsible for shaping solution architectures, evaluating technology options, driving architectural governance, and ensuring scalable, secure, and sustainable outcomes that deliver business value.

You will play a key role in supporting internal GTS projects as well as wider business projects with your expertise. You will work in various projects delivering oversight translation to and from business and technical teams and able to work out the final solution together with experts cross the group.

Key Responsibilities

- Deliver architecture documents that meet requirements from various stakeholders and are in line with our strategy.

• Delivery your knowledge and skills to the business engineering teams
• Able to gather and document requirements (functional and technical)
• Align business requirements with strategic long-term planning.
• Present overall architecture if needed to various audiences: Data team, Integration team, Business Partners, Project Members, Business unit stakeholders, Security team and TechOps.
• Write long term roadmaps and strategies
• Chair technical sessions with engineering teams and translating those in written technical and functional documentation
• Investigating the ‘as is’ state currently in place across the groups systems and networks. Produce a picture of company assets and where any security concerns may arise.
• Defining and documenting how the implementation of a new system or new interfaces between systems.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

In this role you will need to be all round analytical with background in both IT infra and/or Systems development. You are a communicative and able to understand business needs and able to work on technical challenges.

• Requirements analysis
• Experience with at least the following:
• Networking
• Domains (and Domain Segregation)
• Public Cloud services
• OnPrem Infrastructure
• Microsoft O365/ActiveDirectory/AzureAD/Sharepoint/PowerBI
• High Availability deployment strategies
• AI
• Data Governance
• IT Architecture
• Security principles
• Written Technical and functional documentation
• Familiar with Togaf (or similar frameworks)
• Proactive project membership and attitude
• Strong in T’s and C’s
• Proven experience as an IT Solution Architect or similar role.
• Prior knowledge of Security architecture in a number of different technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of IT risks, cyber security, and computer operating software
• The aptitude and ability to quickly absorb technical detail of new or unfamiliar technologies is essential.
• Proven experience with writing architecture documentation.

Frameworks:

• Frameworks: Togaf9 / Zachman / UAF / Agile / FEAF / MoD AF
• Languages: BPMN / UML / ArchiMate

Possible Certifications:

• AWS or Azure Cert Sol. Architecture
• CISSP or Similar Security Qualifications
• Open Group Cert. Architecture

Job Benefits

- Flexible Working : Balance your work and personal life with our flexible working options.

• Generous Holiday Allowance : Enjoy 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave.
• Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme
• Financial & Investment Benefits : Enjoy peace of mind with our Pension, Life Assurance, and Share Save Scheme.
• Community & Volunteering Programmes : Make a difference in your community with our volunteering opportunities.
• Green Car Scheme: Drive green and save money with our eco-friendly car scheme.
• Cycle Schem e: Stay fit and healthy with our cycle-to-work scheme.
• Special Time Off : Take time off for those big moments in life, like getting married/entering into a civil partnership, becoming a grandparent, and welcoming home a new pet.
• Family Planning : Benefit from our generous maternity and paternity leave, as well as time off and support for those undergoing fertility treatments.

About NCC Group

We assess, develop and manage cyber threats across our increasingly connected society. We advise global technology, manufacturers, financial institutions, critical national infrastructure providers, retailers and governments on the best way to keep businesses, software and personal data safe.

With our knowledge, experience and global footprint, we are best placed to help businesses identify, assess, mitigate & respond to the risks they face.

We are passionate about making the Internet safer and revolutionising the way in which organisations think about cyber security.

Headquartered in Manchester, UK, with over 35 offices across the world, NCC Group employs more than 2,000 people and is a trusted advisor to 15,000 clients worldwide.

We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.

To ensure a fair and consistent assessment process, candidates must not use AI tools to generate, suggest, coach or provide responses during live or recorded interviews unless this has been approved in advance, by the hiring team. For more information please read our AI in Hiring - Candidate Policy.

If you do not want us to retain your details, you can utilise the Manage Your Data tool provided by Pinpoint or contact us directly at: global.ta@nccgroup.com. All personal data is held in accordance with the NCC Group Privacy Notice.

We are committed to diversity and flexibility in the workplace. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the application process, please tell us at any stage.

Please note that this role involves mandatory pre-employment background checks due to the nature of the work NCC Group does. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the vetting process.