Senior Solutions Architect

Location: Edinburgh

In this position, you’ll be based in the Edinburgh office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex. 

We give you a world of potential

Computershare are currently looking to recruit a Senior Solution Architect to join our Issuer Services team within Computershare Technology Services.

This is a hybrid position primarily based in the heart of Edinburgh with our office located in St. Andrew Square.

What makes this role exciting when there are other similar roles in the market? Well, there are a few things that make this role stand out:

• You will be part of a transformational channel strategy working on global projects.
• You will work on the latest technology in a fast-paced environment.
• You will be working within a global department reporting directly to our new Chief Architect. 

Interested? Keep on reading to find out a bit more about what you’ll be doing, and the type of person that we’re looking for.

A role you will love

As our Senior Solution Architect, you will be responsible for solution design and architecture delivery providing architectural direction to teams and implementing architectural strategy. 

Within this role, the focus will be on designing secure, scalable integration solutions that align with business goals and enterprise standards.

Some key responsibilities:

• Work to support wider organisational objectives beyond your immediate goals.
• Lead the communication of complicated, complex or risky architecture topics with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Take action to solve or mitigate problems by influencing colleagues across the organisation.
• Make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase.
• Define and challenge strategies, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements.
• Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.

What will you bring to the role? 

As you’ve probably gathered by now, we are looking for somebody with a real passion for Architecture & Technology and will have the ability provide excellent architectural direction to our teams. 

With this role being a key part of our Architecture team, you will be experienced in managing and building excellent stakeholder relationships with people at all levels. 

Other key skills required for the role include:

• Significant experience in a Solution Architect role.
• Expert experience in API-based design and implementation of a diverse range of API driven solutions.
• Demonstratable experience in designing and implementation within public Cloud (IAAS, PAAS or SAAS based services) as well as integration to on-premise applications and services.
• Experience in working with global vendors.
• Demonstrable experience of creating and owning current, transitional and target state architectures.

If this sounds like just the role you’ve been looking for, be sure to apply today!  

Rewards designed for you.   

Flexible work to help you find the best balance between work and lifestyle.

Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family.

Invest in our business by setting aside salary to purchase shares in our company, and you’ll receive a company contribution as well.

Extra rewards ranging from recognition awards and team get togethers to helping you invest in your future.

And more. Ours is a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow. Our handbook will help you find out more about our rewards and life at Computershare, visit computershare.com/careers-handbook. 

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