Solutions Architecture Manager

Description

• Implement, operate and manage the Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) Process to maintain the IT Architecture Model and ensure its applicability to business needs and IT strategy.
• Line Management of the UK Solution Architecture team and third-party technical consultants working as part of the UK IT Architecture team.
• Contribute to the Iberdrola Group, a global vision of the state-of-the-art and best practice IT market generally, and in particular the implementation practices and technologies of architecture, and technological solutions in the Group.
• Support digital transformation across ScottishPower businesses through the adoption of agile methodologies, management, identification and delivery of Disciplines inline with Digital Transformation programme
• Realise the technical design and of architecture of the business IT solutions within the UK
• Ensure IT architectures and associated roadmaps are defined and communicated to all key stakeholders.
• Technology Evangelism – ensuring that technology standards and emerging changes are understood across the COE and TPOC teams.
• Effectively participate in matrix management structures
• Participate in the definition, implementation and evolution of the Architecture IT strategic model and operation of the Iberdrola Group including IT standards, design patterns and communication plans to assure its adoption and buy-in within the UK.
• Coordination of Annual Systems Planning of technology requirements (including high level designs, hardware, software and infrastructure services budget estimates) across all UK Businesses for input to Group PDS Planning process.
• Support the definition and implementation of a single integrated function of Management of the IT Architecture in the Iberdrola Group, to make available the current portfolio of technologies with the most suitable and efficient information.
• Perform IT Governance process to align Business IT Solutions with approved and compliant standards.

Requirements

• Driving licence.
• The role holder will be a focal point for information requests and decision-making within IT and advising/defining on specific IT designs. The role holder must, therefore, be adept at prioritising and decision-making in demanding timescales.
• Ability to promote key change at departmental or business level
• Purchasing processes, supplier management and service contracting experience
• Budget management experience
• Alignment with Iberdrola Group technologies and the maintenance of the UK section of the Group Technology Blueprint.
• Stakeholder Management experience
• Computer Science or relevant University degree / or equivalent industry experience
• Business understanding of the Energy and Utility market so as to be able to provide solutions to complex business problems for areas of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of organisational objectives.
• Ability to feed application technology selections into Architecture Model for use across similar business IT needs.
• Significant IT experience gained from working in a number of application based roles.
• Deep understanding of emerging Technologies, Industry Trends and IT Frameworks.
• 3 years’ experience in Innovation management.
• 5 years’ experience in infrastructure life cycle management
• An effective communicator, the role holder will have multiple years of consulting experience across varied customers and industries with deep understanding of business applications and competencies and should be able to get involved in setting strategic direction to establish near term goals for area of responsibility.
• Must be a proven team player to work, promote and consolidate efficient team working relationships.
• 3 years’ experience people management as a team leader
• Experience of Infrastructure and Application architectures is key from identifying customer requirements, evaluation of required IT solutions and selecting the correct application and technology solution design.
• Record of academic achievement, including some form of recognised qualification from further education, such as a degree or diploma, is desirable.
• As IT architectures and technologies develop and evolve in ever reducing periods of time, the role holder will be required to update their knowledge and must therefore demonstrate a strong, in-built desire to acquire and retain knowledge about information technology.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Project Management experience
• Experience of translating complex technical issues into language that delivers effective end results.
• Willingness to travel by aircraft internationally on business.
• Numerate and able to deal with finances for the purposes of managing budgets or contracts with suppliers.
• Given the breadth of technologies and applications used across ScottishPower, it is expected that the role holder will have worked in a variety of IT disciplines and will have gained knowledge across most aspects of infrastructure, application and operational disciplines with strong supporting knowledge of (vertical and horizontal) industry applications.
• Working within an UK wide and international team, oral and/or written skills in Spanish would be desirable but as a minimum there must be a willingness to learn Spanish.
• Good knowledge across a range of IT domains with an in-depth knowledge of certain technologies under his/her responsibility

Benefits

• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance