Solutions Architect

Salary: £90,000 – £108,000 per year

Solutions Architect

Fully Remote UK

£75,000 – £90,000 + Benefits 

25 days Holiday + Bank & Christmas 

Pension 9% 

2 Charity Volunteer Days 

Electric Car Scheme 

Share Incentive Scheme 

Personal Development Allowance 

Working from Home Allowance

Unify is super proud to be working with a people-centric Microsoft Gold Partner who genuinely have an unrivalled culture, working environment and reputation in the marketplace. They offer incredibly competitive salaries and a hugely impressive benefits package which is second to none.

Are you a Solutions Architect, Infrastructure Architect, Cloud Architect, 365 Architect with a varied background ranging from Azure migration / infrastructure work to M365 solutions?

If so, read on and reach out ASAP! This is not an opportunity to be missed!

Our client is a rapidly expanding Microsoft Gold Partner who possesses a wealth of resources, qualified and experienced in the Microsoft suite of software and infrastructure solutions. They have established a strong reputation for the timely and cost-effective completion of projects in both the private and public sector.

They often help organisations who have in-housed their services away from long service agreements with traditional ICT service providers. As such they can provide excellent cost efficiency, for the delivery of tangible outcomes you need.

They help organisations obtain a clear ‘total cost of ownership’ view of their existing on-premises ICT including management and operational costs and provide a recommended ICT vision that is tailored to the business requirements and budget. They can help their clients leverage the management and cost efficiencies of cloud hosting and, as one of Microsoft’s highest calibre recommended partners, they have expertise in Microsoft365 including Teams and Telephony, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint and Azure hosting.

In addition, the business maintains a strong focus on knowledge transfer, to help clients manage their own ICT landscape, as they feel that empowering customers to maintain their solutions is imperative to ensuring sustainable success.

Why join this business?

They are passionate about the delivery of Impactful and Purposeful change for their clients!

With a strong culture their highly skilled and diverse team is equipped to deliver innovative and cutting edge solutions for both their Public and Private Sector clients. Drawn to deliver impactful change that benefits communities and their clients stakeholders, their people are proud to be a part of their customers journey.

They work in a fast paced environment where they empower their people to work autonomously as subject matter experts, trusting and supporting their skill sets to develop solutions that meet and often exceed their customer requirements.

Examples of what makes this business a great environment to work in:

702 hours donated to Charities & Communities in last 6 months and £33,000 of donations to Charity

Extremely focused on diversity at every level, this is demonstrated by the fact that 51% of their workforce is female, with a 40% representation in leadership roles, which is unorthodox in a Digital / IT Organisation.

1,092 careers have been kick-started via their Community Investment Programmes, which places them well on track for our target of 5,000 by 2025.

They believe they are already well underway in achieving their target of Net Zero by 2025, if not already there! Their targets will soon be verified by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Recently launched employee resource groups covering women, LGBTQI and minority ethnic groups. They have launched a new Academy to build skills internally. A recent organisational survey had a score of 8/10 in terms of confidence in Leadership.

Role Brief:

We are currently recruiting for an Solutions Architect in a client facing role requiring excellent written and verbal communication skills, extensive knowledge, and professional experience in designing, migrating, and implementing complex solutions and migrations.

Key Responsibilities

You will be able to deploy scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on Microsoft Cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, using industry best practices to drive adoption of services. You will Facilitate discussions with customers to understand business and technical requirements and recommend appropriate solutions.

Partner with supporting internal and external infrastructure teams.Generate supporting documents as required.You will deliver technical scoping and technical workshops as required while also creating and developing technical roadmaps, documenting migration approach and details for each engagement

Contribute to bid documentation as required. Finally you will provide technical and operational support, accountable for managing your own time allocated per engagement

Skills required:

• Experience in infrastructure support, design, and implementation of Microsoft technologies.
• Experience architecting solutions across the Microsoft platform for major enterprise projects. 
• Experience of integration with hybrid on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Experience of Microsoft 365 services including Power Platform.
• Knowledge of CRM platforms and business enabling solutions.
• Knowledge of network technologies, including LAN, WAN and SD-WAN technologies.
• Knowledge of firewall and security technologies such as content filtering and application gateways.
• Knowledge of storage platforms including NAS, SAN and hyper-scale.
• Knowledge of security best practices.
• Experience in solving complex technical challenges.
• Proficiency in business and technical report writing.
• Strong stakeholder management Desirable
• PowerShell scripting and use of Microsoft ARM templates.
• Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security experience including Conditional Access.
• Windows 10 & deployment techniques.
• Windows WVD/VDI
• Virtualisation – Hyper-V experience and design.
• Understanding of network security including PKI and encryption services.
• Knowledge of SharePoint design
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert.
• ToGAF, IAM, Zachmann
• Knowledge of other Cloud platforms such as AWS and / or Google
• Experience in infrastructure support, design, and implementation of Microsoft technologies.
• Experience architecting solutions across the Microsoft platform for major enterprise projects.

Please reach out for more info.