Solution Architect
BT Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Manchester • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Design and deliver innovative, repeatable E2E solution architectures to solve complex technical challenges and meet business requirements.
- Conduct thorough technical and business discovery, identifying dependencies, integration points, and potential challenges across systems.
- Develop robust recommendations, proposals, and scope-of-work documents, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs while addressing critical dependencies and gaps.
- Ensure compliance with Enterprise Architecture guardrails, maintaining consistency and adherence to solution patterns.
- Contribute to the Networks Data roadmap, shaping future solutions with strategic E2E considerations.
- Mentor and guide fellow solution architects, fostering technical growth and best practices across the team
Requirements
- Experience designing scalable, E2E solutions for consumer services, leveraging data to enhance customer experiences and business outcomes.
- Solid understanding of Network products, including Security standards, Elastic Fleet Management, industry metrics, and regulatory considerations e.g. TSA.
- Familiarity with cloud and micro-service architectures, as well as foundational knowledge of software-defined networking for data-driven solutions.
- Experience working with hybrid data architectures, spanning multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and on-premise data platforms.
- Practical knowledge of data lifecycle management, including governance, analysis, and essential tools.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, ensuring alignment across stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Supporting the architecture of scalable E2E systems, enhancing customer experiences while aligning with business goals.
- Driving technical decision-making, balancing scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness across solution designs.
- Collaborating with Networks engineering, security and project teams, ensuring best practices in system operationalization.
- Contributing to the integration of solutions within a broader E2E landscape, helping define architecture patterns across systems, applications, and visualizations.
Benefits
- Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)
- BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- Life Assurance
- Direct share scheme
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
- 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
- My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
- Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
- Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option
- Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
- Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’
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Hard skills
E2E solution architecturedata lifecycle managementcloud architecturemicro-service architecturesoftware-defined networkinghybrid data architecturedata governancedata analysisElastic Fleet Managementsecurity standards
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringtechnical growthstakeholder alignmentproblem-solvingdecision-makingfostering best practicesstrategic thinkingcross-functional teamwork