Overview

Position Title: IT Solutions

Company: London North Eastern Railway

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Description:

The IT Solutions Architect is responsible for ensuring any new IT services into the business are fit for purpose and aligned to the LNER Business Plan. It is the responsibility of the IT Solutions Architect to ensure that all new IT Assets have full design documents available. In addition to understanding the business services, the Solutions Architect is responsible for proposing continued improvement across the environment including IT software, hardware, user interactions, integrations, and system interfaces.

Responsibilities: 

  • Define the IT Non-Functional Requirements with supporting acceptance criteria to define what ‘good’ looks like from a technical perspective with measures to verify compliance.
  • As part of Design Authority and Change Authority Board, ensure there is a governance mechanism to exercise control on all outputs being produced. Ensure they are robust, scalable, performant, secure and maintainable.
  • Produce a reference architecture, architectural building blocks and non-functional requirements to provide a structure for project outputs.
  • Stakeholder management; budgeting, estimating, and influencing team members and 3rd
    For IT projects, provide Quality Assurance to ensure they are fit for purpose and fit for use.

Reqirements:

  • Proven experience in managing and support highly available, business critical environments with 24/7 operational requirements, minimal maintenance windows and business continuity strategy.
  • Proven expertise of defining and delivering a robust, scalable, performant, secure and maintainable technical landscape across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Qualified and have proven experience of leading in the ITIL principles of Strategy, Problem Management, Change Management and Supplier Management
  • Proven experience translating and communicating complex business requirements through to design and implementation of well architected technical solutions.
  • Qualified and proven experience in architecting, implementing, and supporting Cloud Infrastructure solutions with complete technical understanding of associated Cloud technologies (AWS, Microsoft 365, Azure).

About London North Eastern Railway

London North Eastern Railway is one of the UK’s leading long-distance train operators. Our services link London King’s Cross directly with many destinations in the East Midlands, Yorkshire, North East England and Scotland operating on a 936 mile route.