Please note that this is a 12 months FTC opportunity

About PXC

We are PXC, the UK’s largest provider of wholesale connectivity. Our vision is to be the UK’s #1 wholesale platform, a one-stop shop provider of connectivity, voice, cloud and security underpinned by the UK’s most robust, secure, resilient and reliable network.

Born from the combination of Virtual1 and TalkTalk’s wholesale services and national network business, we employ 1100 people across our 3 core sites (Salford, London and North Macedonia).

Our mission is clear, to be the UK’s best company to work for and best to work with. We believe this success is driven by the power of our employees. We empower our people to become true experts in their field who embody our values every day: we care; we challenge; we commit.

About the Role

The Architecture Practice contains several teams of Programme, Project and Solution Architects working across all functional areas of PXC.

The team for this specific role specialises in designing cross domain software solutions focused on our product portfolio, which spans all divisions of PXC. The product set could span everything we deliver including broadband, TV, high-speed Ethernet and corporate network solutions. The solutions designed by the team cover the full product lifecycle and ensure we adhere to Architecture best practice as defined by the Architecture Review Board.

A Project Architect within Architecture and Software Solutions defines architectural solutions for our business initiatives which deliver on our company objectives, and which align with our enterprise architecture principles.

The software solutions often involve complex processes and systems and must align with industry best-practises and patterns like event-driven architecture, microservices, and domain-driven design.

They lead the development of project architecture, across multiple architectural domains whilst maintaining an end-to-end view of the overall solution.

They will own the project architecture vision which defines the strategy of how we will deliver (“transition states”) and informs the overall roadmap.

What you will be working on

Project Architecture

• Lead the design of application architecture solutions for projects, ensuring alignment with business requirements and architectural principles.
• Within a change programme, lead the preparation of technical plans, outlining the application architecture, integration strategies, and technology stack.
• Coordination with network, infrastructure, security and data architects and designers, ensuring that solutions are end-to-end across application software, network and infrastructure.
• Identify and select suitable architectural and design patterns, tailoring them to project requirements to ensure efficient, scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Apply meticulous attention to detail in architectural work, ensuring accuracy and reliability in solutions.

Solution Design

• Provide strategic recommendations by conducting thorough impact analysis for business objectives, evaluating options and assessing trade-offs.
• Deliver clear and concise solutions, ensuring that complex concepts are easily understood and actionable by all stakeholders, facilitating effective decision-making and project progression.
• Evaluate and provide constructive feedback on other architects’ designs, ensuring they adhere to architectural standards, patterns, principles and align with overall strategic objectives.

Relationship Management

• Build and maintain open communication with stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact while working to business stakeholder strategies and plans.
• Lead workshops and guide decision-making processes, fostering collaboration and ensuring stakeholders are aligned on architectural decisions and project goals.

Expert Advice

• Actively maintain recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms
• Oversee the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidate expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives
• Support the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.

What will make you successful in your role?

Essential

• Experience in creating application solution architecture/designs within a software delivery function with a focus on product innovation.
• Technical expertise to allow you to guide and mentor technical staff, influence the technical direction, work closely with wider architecture and solution design.

Beneficial

• Knowledge of telecoms products, system architecture, and industry standards e.g. TMForum specifications
• Experience with Salesforce or Azure
• Experience of working in a wholesale environment, managing relationships with multiple suppliers
• Experience in developing and maintaining common interfaces for wholesale partners and suppliers

How we look after our employees

• Our brand new “PXC Flex” benefit will launch in January 2025, which will include Flex30, an additional 30 hours* of leave every year for you to use how you wish
• Our hybrid working policy offers you flexibility to work from home 60% of the time, with the other 40% connecting with your colleagues in one of our fantastic, accessible and collaborative office spaces
• A starting holiday allowance of 25 days* holiday and up to 10 extra days* leave via our holiday purchase scheme
• Free private healthcare for all employees, competitive pension scheme and the opportunity to earn bonus
• Free broadband for all employees plus gifts for major life events such as marriages and births
• Flexible salary sacrifice scheme including dental, gym, electric car scheme and much more, plus a huge range of shopping and leisure discounts so you can save even more cash
• A range of inclusive employee networks to help integrate employees into life at PXC

(* Days and hours are based on a full-time employee’s working pattern and leave is pro-rated for part-time employee)

At PXC, we know that diversity means success and innovation. We want our workplace to reflect the communities and customer we serve. Being inclusive is part of our DNA; we are all 100% human, and we create a culture where you can truly be yourself.

We’re also not your usual 9-5. We are a dynamic workplace and we want to talk to you about how you like to work.