Senior Technical Architect - Utilities (6 month FTC)

London
3 weeks ago
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Location: We operate a flexible, hybrid working environment with the candidate required to travel to either our Winchester or London office twice a week.

We offer

  • Competitive base salary up to £97,000

  • 15% Bonus

  • 6% pension contribution

  • Private Medical

  • 25 days annual leave

  • Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance

  • Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture

    Role Purpose

    As a Senior Technical Architect, you will lead the end-to-end architectural solution design, platform, and supplier integrations within the Utilities sector. You will collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Product Managers, and Platform Owners to innovate and develop strategic growth initiatives that align and mature our core architecture capabilities in line with an ambitious Utilities Growth Vision.

    Accountabilities

  • Maintaining and expanding the SMART metering portfolio: Bringing new and exciting innovation products to market.

  • Developing a growing portfolio of multiple communications technologies: Including Radio Frequencies, LTE, NBIoT, and Satellite.

  • Building enduring relationships with key business and technology stakeholders: Including customers, internal platform teams, outsource partners, and suppliers.

  • Supporting the completion of RFPs: Providing consultancy and written contributions.

  • Leading and producing clear and well-written end-to-end high-level designs (HLDs): Ensuring compliance with Arqiva design principles.

  • Leading and contributing to vendor selection: Writing RFPs and scoring responses.

  • Influencing key technical decisions: Professionally and confidently debating and challenging.

  • Balancing architectural requirements against business and operational objectives.

  • Strategic roadmap planning: Working alongside Enterprise Architects and Product Managers.

  • Providing architecture assurance: Engaging with internal and external stakeholder groups.

  • Developing and ensuring the adoption of best practices: In architecture and systems engineering standards and procedures.

  • Producing and maintaining relevant design patterns: For repeatable change.

  • Participating in the full cycle of pre-sale activities: Engaging with new and existing customers.

  • Leading design workshops: Successfully solving technical problems.

  • Strengthening relationships with our customers: Including customer visits and workshops.

  • Incorporating a great customer experience into all designs.

  • Considering commercial impacts for all designs: Including delivery and operational costs.

  • Contributing to continuous improvement: Of design policies, processes, and procedures

    Required

  • Outstanding stakeholder management, collaborative engagement abilities

  • Proven experience in providing technical and delivery leadership

  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations

  • Demonstrable ability to innovate and strategically address technical challenges

  • Good experience within the telecommunications or utilities sectors; including smart metering, M2M, IoT, data analytics or related fields

    Qualifications: Degree or relevant experience

    Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast, and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.

    Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

    Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work.

    Our focus for 2024 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply!

    Inclusive Arqiva ….Our networks include our Diversity Ambassadors, Eldercare, Spectrum, Working Families, Pride, Veterans and Inspiring Women – join and contribute to our active networks

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