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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.\nThe 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.\nYou 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.\nWe 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.\nYou 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nDeliver architecture documents that meet requirements from various stakeholders and are in line with our strategy. \nDelivery your knowledge and skills to the business engineering teams \nAble to gather and document requirements (functional and technical) \nAlign business requirements with strategic long-term planning. \nPresent overall architecture if needed to various audiences: Data team, Integration team, Business Partners, Project Members, Business unit stakeholders, Security team and TechOps. \nWrite long term roadmaps and strategies \nChair technical sessions with engineering teams and translating those in written technical and functional documentation \nInvestigating 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. \nDefining and documenting how the implementation of a new system or new interfaces between systems.\nSkills, Knowledge & Expertise\nIn this role you will need to be all round analytical with background in both IT infra and/or Systems development. 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