Solutions Architect

A key part of the role will be to ensure we make progress on our key issues, whilst keeping solutions aligned to organization and industry standards and with other programs for which a seamless collaboration with your team and with other Architects across Thames Water is fundamental. As well as designing solutions, you'll also play your part in driving forward the adoption and maintenance of our enterprise repository which holds all of our IT design and reference information. What you'll be doing as a Solutions Architect Understand the problem space: delivery of solution architectures and designs through their full lifecycle Understand the business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) determine solution designs to drive the targeted business outcomes Creating architectural designs to guide and contextualise solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information Facilitate the evaluation and selection of solution options, software product standards and services Supporting product managers in product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information Using your experience on projects to suggest and implement changes to our modelling environment to better support the needs of our various stakeholders Create and maintain the architecture models and related reference data in our enterprise repository as part of your normal project tasks

We're the UK's largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people and the planet to thrive. It's a big job and we've got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.