Team – Product Delivery
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Advanced Solution & Enterprise Architecture Expertise
- Strategic Thinking & Cross Functional Influence
- Expert in systems Integration & Delivery Leadership
What this role is all about:
The Solutions Architect plays a key role in bringing Vitality’s vision to life by transforming complex or abstract business needs into clear, innovative, and sustainable technical designs. With a holistic understanding of the technology landscape, they identify the smartest ways to integrate and deploy new solutions so they enhance existing capabilities and deliver long-term value. Acting as the essential bridge between business strategy and application architecture, the Solutions Architect ensures every solution is purpose led, future ready, and crafted to create brilliant experiences across the organisation.
Key Actions
- Review, interpret, and respond to detailed Business Requirements Specifications (BRS) to ensure alignment between customer expectations and current or future ICT capabilities.
- Contribute to the strategic direction of technology investments by informing and supporting the development of the enterprise architecture, ensuring maximum value and return on technology spend.
- Define and design technology solutions that align with the agreed enterprise architecture, supporting the business in achieving its strategic and operational objectives.
- Develop, test, and implement technology solutions, providing clear reporting on delivery commitments to ensure solutions are deployed as expected and within agreed timelines.
- Ensure all solution architectures align with enterprise architecture roadmaps and adhere to enterprise architecture principles, standards, and governance.
- Adhere to agreed initiative and project budgets.
What do you need to thrive?
- Tertiary qualification preferred in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, with relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, cloud architecture) considered advantageous.
- Strong systems architecture knowledge, development background, and solid domain expertise with the ability to interpret detailed business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
- Experienced in working within enterprise architecture frameworks, adhering to standards, and ensuring alignment with architectural roadmaps and principles.
- Skilled in identifying and managing complex system, infrastructure and project interdependencies, balancing competing demands, and delivering solutions within agreed budgets and timeframes.
- Able to contribute strategically by presenting ideas to senior leadership, participating in strategy discussions if required, and reporting on key strategic initiatives.
- Comfortable navigating complex challenges such as evolving market conditions, regulatory changes, organisational transformation and stakeholder expectations.
- A self starter who is out comes driven, creative, technically strong, able to connect the dots across systems and business needs, and confident in making quick, informed decisions.
- Demonstrates key behavioural competencies including action orientation, compassion, customer focus, ethics and values, interpersonal savvy and learning agility.
- Possesses advanced role specific capabilities such as designing large or complex systems, applying appropriate design standards and tools, reviewing others’ system designs, guiding integration, supporting technical planning, conducting impact and risk analysis, and ensuring system designs balance functional, service quality and operational requirements.
So, what’s in it for you?
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- Retirement support - we will match your contributions up to 5% of your salary
- Health & wellbeing - Discovery Health Medical Scheme
- Financial protection- life assurance, income protection, and short- and long-term disability insurance
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page.
Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
- Be there for you when you need us.
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.
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