Job Description
This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in the office at least 3 days a week.
As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.
Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.
What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!
Joining us as a Solution Architect
This is an amazing opportunity to get involved in lots of exciting projects across CityFibre, leading on their technical direction and really making your own mark on the role. You’ll be researching innovative and effective new solutions that meet key requirements from our stakeholders and implementing robust business cases on how to successfully integrate these across the business, including identifying and highlighting architectural risk and proposing mitigation recommendations.
You’ll receive a competitive salary, a car allowance, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.
This is some of what you can expect to be doing:
- Working with the Enterprise Architects and business stakeholders to capture, maintain and evolve current state architecture
- Evaluating internal functions, systems, business strategies and IT processes to find improvements that support our future goals
- Ensuring that business and technology are in alignment by linking the business mission, strategy, and processes to its technology strategy
- Supporting the early-life definition of programmes and projects that includes shaping and defining the scope and roadmap, and inputting into business cases
- Managing and assisting the delivery of technical solutions that provide business advantage through effective right time, right cost and right solution design
What you’ll bring to the role
You’ll have already have solid experience researching, defining, and translating complex technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders, as well as experience working with systems and solutions deployed in a cloud environment, ideally AWS. You’ll also bring the following with you:
- Ability to use telecoms, IT industry and enterprise architecture best practice methodologies, processes, functions, and data maps
- Experience reverse engineering undocumented legacy systems and software, including data models
- Good commercial awareness with the ability to select the best-fit solution
- Extensive experience working in a scaled Scrum or Kanban environment
- A software development background with experience coding, debugging, and reviewing development languages such as Python, JavaScript, PHP and Web frameworks
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre.
If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.
What you can expect from us
We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.
Additional Information
We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at We want to help!
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