Solution Architect

Salary: £780 – £804 per day

Vitality, Solution Architect, Croydon, £Competitive + Bonus + Benefits

We’re the UK insurer and investment provider that rewards people for positive lifestyle choices. With 1.25m+ UK members and more than 25m globally, we’re out to make the world a healthier, happier place.

That applies as much to our people as it does to our members. So, as well as a highly competitive pay package, you’ll enjoy: Free places to Vitality sponsored run events, online fitness classes and wellbeing workshops, competitions to win tickets to top-flight sporting events, health checks, and access to our full range of partners and rewards.

It’s what we call offering shared value, because a healthy, happy team is good for us, good for our members, and good for you.

As our Solution Architect, you’ll get the benefits our members enjoy, including:

– Our award-winning private Vitality Health insurance + wellness incentive programme

– Access to The Vitality Programme – Apple Watch, Waitrose and Partners, Garmin, Amazon Prime, Champneys Spa days, Rakuten TV, and half-price gym memberships to name a few!

– Personal health fund + Life Assurance

– Stakeholder Pension Plan with employer contribution

– 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays + option to buy and sell 5 more

– Flexible benefits package

– Internal incentives, competitions, and awards – a chance to win football and sports tickets or even be in with a chance to have a holiday of a lifetime

– A genuine opportunity to grow and establish a long-term career

As our Solution Architect, you will be responsible for ensuring that changes to Vitality Invest applications are designed and delivered in accordance with IT Delivery policies and standards. You will also be accountable for understanding the business need and translating it into technology solutions that are designed and built in accordance with Vitality IT Delivery policies and standards.

Key responsibilities of our Solution Architect:

– Helping to set up a new digital capability within the Group, focusing on the Invest business, and being the architect and technical lead for the team

– Working closely with business and technical SMEs both within the organisation and third parties, to design, and with the team, to deliver, digital solutions in line with Group policies and standards

– Undertaking a hands-on technical leadership role in a newly formed team that will require development, especially prototyping and PoCs, but production code as well

– As technical lead and architect for Invest Digital change, undertaking impact assessments, sizing, design, and documentation, right through to delivery, and quality assurance of delivered change as part of the agile delivery team

– Contributing to developing, maintaining, and publishing of principles, standards, guidelines, and processes at CADS (Committee, Application Development Standards) and contributing to Design standards and Patterns and forms part of the governing body of EADA, through a dotted line to the Group Architecture team

– Assisting in Incident/Problem management where applicable for digital assets developed by the team, and undertaking a broader role with Invest digital assets developed by our third-party provider

What we’re looking for in our Solution Architect:

Essential

– Demonstrable experience working as a Solution Architect using a range of different technologies, notably Angular and/or React JS, NodeJS, GraphQL, Java Springboot MSA

– Demonstrable extensive hands-on experience developing in the above technologies

– A confident communicator – able to present complex technical issues in a clear manner to technical and non-technical audiences

– Extensive experience of Agile Methodology, notably Scrum

– The ability to multi-task and prioritise across a number of projects and initiatives

– Someone who can work independently and collaborate effectively across the organisation

– The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment

– The ability to learn and adapt fast and open to new challenges

– A self-motivated, goal-oriented individual with the ability to take ownership of the task assigned

– Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Working for Vitality, you will experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best.

Our people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm, and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Solution Architect, then please click ‘apply’ today.