30 Business Architect Roles jobs in the United Kingdom
Cloud Solution Architecture
London, London
Microsoft Corporation
Posted 1 day ago
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There has never been a more exciting time to be working in healthcare at Microsoft. Our Health & Life Sciences Solutions organization is an interdisciplinary team of product managers, designers, engineers, and clinicians who are designing, developing and deploying next-generation healthcare solutions powered by the Microsoft Cloud for healthcare organizations around the world.
As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will be an integral member of a team within HLS Solutions that is working to empower clinicians to achieve more with groundbreaking healthcare-oriented copilots. The ideal candidate will be excited about waking up every morning to apply their skills in project management, Instructional design and delivery, training, change management and user engagement to deploying new technologies and experiences centered around driving positive healthcare outcomes.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
+ Delivers efficient, seamless customer and partner experiences with minimal supervision. Understands customer goals and helps define success criteria. Addresses dissatisfaction proactively and may assist in implementing strategies to enhance experience, value, and transformation.
+ Identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers to speed up solution deployment and value realization with minimal oversight. Develops and applies business, technical, or industry knowledge to architecture or support projects, addressing IT requirements and constraints with little guidance.
+ Identifies and communicates delivery gaps to teams and stakeholders, links patterns across business and technology to drive product or process improvements, and helps scale solutions with minimal guidance. May also assist in developing or updating Microsoft's frameworks and methodologies.
+ Proactively identifies opportunities for Consumption, Usage, and Unified expansion by aligning Microsoft solutions with customer needs to support cloud success, security, resiliency, and AI innovation. Engages customers and partners through active listening and constructive feedback, advocating for alternative solutions that better meet their requirements. Monitors industry trends and gathers insights to align architectures with business objectives. Records and executes on opportunities collaboratively using Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model.
Embody our culture ( and values ( qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND experience in **Health/Lifesciences industries :** cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.
**Additional or preferred qualifications**
+ Experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
+ Experience working on technical projects.
+ Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will be an integral member of a team within HLS Solutions that is working to empower clinicians to achieve more with groundbreaking healthcare-oriented copilots. The ideal candidate will be excited about waking up every morning to apply their skills in project management, Instructional design and delivery, training, change management and user engagement to deploying new technologies and experiences centered around driving positive healthcare outcomes.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
+ Delivers efficient, seamless customer and partner experiences with minimal supervision. Understands customer goals and helps define success criteria. Addresses dissatisfaction proactively and may assist in implementing strategies to enhance experience, value, and transformation.
+ Identifies, escalates, and mitigates blockers to speed up solution deployment and value realization with minimal oversight. Develops and applies business, technical, or industry knowledge to architecture or support projects, addressing IT requirements and constraints with little guidance.
+ Identifies and communicates delivery gaps to teams and stakeholders, links patterns across business and technology to drive product or process improvements, and helps scale solutions with minimal guidance. May also assist in developing or updating Microsoft's frameworks and methodologies.
+ Proactively identifies opportunities for Consumption, Usage, and Unified expansion by aligning Microsoft solutions with customer needs to support cloud success, security, resiliency, and AI innovation. Engages customers and partners through active listening and constructive feedback, advocating for alternative solutions that better meet their requirements. Monitors industry trends and gathers insights to align architectures with business objectives. Records and executes on opportunities collaboratively using Microsoft's Customer Engagement Model.
Embody our culture ( and values ( qualifications**
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND experience in **Health/Lifesciences industries :** cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.
**Additional or preferred qualifications**
+ Experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
+ Experience working on technical projects.
+ Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
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Cloud Solution Architecture - Infrastructure
London, London
Microsoft Corporation
Posted 4 days ago
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Job Description
With over 17,000 employees worldwide, the mission of the Customer Experience & Success (CE&S) organization is to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products, services, and partnerships. Come join CE&S and help us build a future where customers achieve their business outcomes faster with technology that does more.
As part of the UK Customer Success Unit you will have the opportunity to empower the largest Enterprise customers in the UK to take advantage of the Azure platform.
Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals that will drive customer cloud adoption within the most important companies in the market. We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other's ideas because we are better together. We stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve and are motivated every day to empower others to do more and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference.
This is a customer facing role, delivering to customers across Industries to enable Customer Success, through migration and adoption of the Azure Platform and technologies and leveraging WW Best Practices. We are looking for a great problem solver who is highly proactive, plans for pitfalls, prioritises ruthlessly for impact and who loves working with technology and customers. If you are looking to develop your Azure skills, we would love to teach you, so you can be successful in this role.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
Customer Centricity
+ Customer Satisfaction - Drive positive Customer Satisfaction & become a trusted advisor.
+ Customer/Partner Insights - Provide feedback & insights from customers/partners.
Business Impact
+ Consumption (Cloud & Support) growth - Develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results & help Customers get value from their Microsoft investments.
+ Resolution of Customer Blockers - Identify resolutions to Customer blockers by leveraging SA subject matter expertise. Deliver according to MS best practices & using repeatable IP.
Technical Leadership
+ Trusted Advisor - guide customer journeys to our Cloud & ready them to innovate with AI, providing thought leadership by constructively challenging customer thinking, applying knowledge of their situation, Azure Infra subject matter expertise, IP & industry/market insights and through delivery of WW Microsoft best practices, such as Well Architected Framework Value Based Deliveries.
+ To be part of a Cloud Platform squad and take part in sprint planning, backlog refinement and responsibilities for completing work tasks. These can range from supporting application teams to use the Azure Platform. Platform Engineering tasks such as updating and creating Azure DevOps pipelines, modification and addition to Terraform code to support new Azure platform capabilities. Creation of documentation, procedure guides and knowledge transfer sessions.
Successful Cloud Solution Architects achieve results by:
+ Customer Obsession, matching customer needs with appropriate Microsoft resources and repeatable IP, e.g., by giving the customer confidence that we can help them achieve their desired business outcomes, including readying them for AI, using Value Based Delivery.
+ Understanding the critical levers that impact achievement of targets/ business objectives and planning/ forecasting ahead to overcome any associated constraints or risks ie. lead times for customer resources.
+ Continuously building their capabilities to meet MS/Customer priorities and personal career development needs, e.g., by proactively leveraging career stage guidance and taking ownership for planning technical skilling & personal development and activities.
+ Actively contribute to the success of others by engaging with your local & global communities, coaching and mentoring others and contributing to team success through IP sharing.
**Qualifications**
**Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)**
+ **Strong and proven** experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting or related field
+ Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
+ Experience in Cloud Infrastructure, plus one or more of the following highly desirable:
+ Technology Solutions
+ Networking
+ Virtualisation Technologies
+ Open Source
**Desirable skills and experience**
**Professional Experience - ** Proven success in technology sector with either technical sales, projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or delivery support.
**Relationship Building -** Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with people, experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects.
**Problem Solving -** Passion and ability to solve technical problems.
**Collaboration and Communication -** Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects.
**Technical**
+ Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
+ Azure Landing Zones (specifically)
+ Azure Governance & Policy
+ Platform Automation & DevOps
+ Network & Connectivity
+ Security
+ Identity and Access Management
+ Azure Administrator, Development, or Azure-focused DevOps.
+ Experienced in agile methodologies and CI/CD principles and practices
+ Proficiency in infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, PowerShell, YAML, Azure DevOps, Gitlab.
+ **_Desirable_** : Experience with Microsoft Fabric & Purview
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
As part of the UK Customer Success Unit you will have the opportunity to empower the largest Enterprise customers in the UK to take advantage of the Azure platform.
Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals that will drive customer cloud adoption within the most important companies in the market. We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other's ideas because we are better together. We stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve and are motivated every day to empower others to do more and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference.
This is a customer facing role, delivering to customers across Industries to enable Customer Success, through migration and adoption of the Azure Platform and technologies and leveraging WW Best Practices. We are looking for a great problem solver who is highly proactive, plans for pitfalls, prioritises ruthlessly for impact and who loves working with technology and customers. If you are looking to develop your Azure skills, we would love to teach you, so you can be successful in this role.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
Customer Centricity
+ Customer Satisfaction - Drive positive Customer Satisfaction & become a trusted advisor.
+ Customer/Partner Insights - Provide feedback & insights from customers/partners.
Business Impact
+ Consumption (Cloud & Support) growth - Develop opportunities to drive Customer Success business results & help Customers get value from their Microsoft investments.
+ Resolution of Customer Blockers - Identify resolutions to Customer blockers by leveraging SA subject matter expertise. Deliver according to MS best practices & using repeatable IP.
Technical Leadership
+ Trusted Advisor - guide customer journeys to our Cloud & ready them to innovate with AI, providing thought leadership by constructively challenging customer thinking, applying knowledge of their situation, Azure Infra subject matter expertise, IP & industry/market insights and through delivery of WW Microsoft best practices, such as Well Architected Framework Value Based Deliveries.
+ To be part of a Cloud Platform squad and take part in sprint planning, backlog refinement and responsibilities for completing work tasks. These can range from supporting application teams to use the Azure Platform. Platform Engineering tasks such as updating and creating Azure DevOps pipelines, modification and addition to Terraform code to support new Azure platform capabilities. Creation of documentation, procedure guides and knowledge transfer sessions.
Successful Cloud Solution Architects achieve results by:
+ Customer Obsession, matching customer needs with appropriate Microsoft resources and repeatable IP, e.g., by giving the customer confidence that we can help them achieve their desired business outcomes, including readying them for AI, using Value Based Delivery.
+ Understanding the critical levers that impact achievement of targets/ business objectives and planning/ forecasting ahead to overcome any associated constraints or risks ie. lead times for customer resources.
+ Continuously building their capabilities to meet MS/Customer priorities and personal career development needs, e.g., by proactively leveraging career stage guidance and taking ownership for planning technical skilling & personal development and activities.
+ Actively contribute to the success of others by engaging with your local & global communities, coaching and mentoring others and contributing to team success through IP sharing.
**Qualifications**
**Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)**
+ **Strong and proven** experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting or related field
+ Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
+ Experience in Cloud Infrastructure, plus one or more of the following highly desirable:
+ Technology Solutions
+ Networking
+ Virtualisation Technologies
+ Open Source
**Desirable skills and experience**
**Professional Experience - ** Proven success in technology sector with either technical sales, projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or delivery support.
**Relationship Building -** Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with people, experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects.
**Problem Solving -** Passion and ability to solve technical problems.
**Collaboration and Communication -** Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects.
**Technical**
+ Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework.
+ Azure Landing Zones (specifically)
+ Azure Governance & Policy
+ Platform Automation & DevOps
+ Network & Connectivity
+ Security
+ Identity and Access Management
+ Azure Administrator, Development, or Azure-focused DevOps.
+ Experienced in agile methodologies and CI/CD principles and practices
+ Proficiency in infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, PowerShell, YAML, Azure DevOps, Gitlab.
+ **_Desirable_** : Experience with Microsoft Fabric & Purview
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
This advertiser has chosen not to accept applicants from your region.
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Cloud Solution Architecture - Developer
Reading, South East
Microsoft Corporation
Posted 12 days ago
Job Viewed
Job Description
With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers' expectations in every interaction, whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all up services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft's portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world.
The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.
We are looking to hire hands-on Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to join our diverse, talented, high performance, and innovative Technical Success team within the Developer Success focus area. The position is deeply technical and highly solution focused with unique opportunities to work on the most challenging and exciting projects within Microsoft, as well as providing an opportunity to drive feedback into core Microsoft products to help improve our platforms.
CSAs are senior individual contributors who operate globally and engage directly with customers. It is a hands-on technical role spanning across design, build, and production with a focus on issue resolution to remove customer production blockers. Candidates are expected to comfortably switch from a whiteboard to the keyboard. This is a truly exciting role that will feature unique and challenging technical problems to solve and to help our customers succeed.
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
A Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) within the Technical Success team focused on Deeloper Success will be responsible for:
+ **Customer-Centric Approach:**
+ Understand customers' developer-centric priorities and success measures, with a focus on GitHub adoption and impact.
+ Innovate with Developer solutions that drive business value.
+ Ensure Solution Excellence: Deliver solutions with high performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, reusability, and reliability upon deployment. Gather insights from customers and partners.
+ **Business Impact:**
+ Drive Consumption Growth: Develop opportunities to enhance Customer Success and help customers extract value from their Microsoft investments. Curate and produce high quality guidance for our internal and external communities and customers.
+ Unblock Customer Challenges: Leverage subject matter expertise to identify resolutions for customer blockers. Follow best practices and utilize repeatable IP.
+ Build repeatable IP and assets that create velocity in deployment and drive customer value from their
+ Unified investment. Continuously look to improve upon these assets utilizing the best of field inputs.
+ Architect Developer Solutions: Apply technical knowledge to design solutions aligned with business and IT needs. Create Developer roadmaps, lead POCs and MVPs, and ensure long-term technical viability.
+ **Technical Leadership:**
+ Advocate for Customers: Share insights and best practices, collaborate with the Engineering team to address key blockers, and influence product improvements, roadmap and feature prioritization.
+ Continuous Learning: Stay updated on market trends, collaborate with the Developer and GitHub communities, and educate customers about the Microsoft's Developer technologies.
+ Accelerate Outcomes: Through engaging with field teams, share expertise, contribute to IP creation, and promote reusability to accelerate customer success, as well as collate feedback on assets to drive improvement and leverage field teams inputs.
**Qualifications**
**Required/Minimum Qualifications**
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or Business Applications consulting OR equivalent experience.
**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**
+ Business Value: The ability to convey the business needs and value of proposed solutions, plans, and risks to stakeholders and decision makers. This includes the ability to persuade and inform based on facts and alignment with goals and strategy.
+ Trusted Advisership: The ability to build trusted advisor status and deep relationships across stakeholders (e.g., technical decision makers, business decision makers) through an understanding of customer needs and technologies.
+ Situational fluency: Using self-awareness as a mechanism to interpret verbal and non-verbal cues to increase your ability to "read the room."
+ Insightful listening: asking insightful questions to understand the customer needs, issues, business environment and drivers, and going beyond what customer has said.
**Technical**
+ Breadth of technical experience and knowledge in foundational security, DevOps practices, and architecture design, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in one or more GitHub solution areas (e.g., Copilot, Advanced Security, Actions, or Enterprise Administration):
+ **Deep Domain Expertise in GitHub:** Advanced expertise in one or more GitHub solution areas-such as GitHub Copilot, Advanced Security, Enterprise Administration, or Actions, or hands-on experience working with these products at an expert level.
+ **Programming Languages and Integration:** Proficient with Python, C#, JavaScript, or similar programming languages in the context of modern application development, with the ability to integrate GitHub into development workflows and platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, Codespaces, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker)
+ **Architecting Enterprise-Grade Solutions:** Proven experience building enterprise-grade, Developer-focused solutions on the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) for customers, from Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) leading to production deployments.
+ **DevOps and GitHub Workflows:** Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD toolchains, with expertise in GitHub Actions, Codespaces, and workflow automation for enterprise-grade deployments.
+ Core GitHub Concepts: Familiarity with foundational GitHub capabilities such as version control (Git), branching strategies, repository management, pull request workflows, and integration with popular developer tools (VS Code, Docker, Kubernetes)
+ **Security and Compliance with GitHub:** Knowledge of GitHub Advanced Security, Dependabot, code scanning, and secret management. Understanding of secure software supply chain practices, compliance requirements, and governance.
+ **Competitive Landscape:** Awareness of the broader DevOps and SCM ecosystem, including platforms like GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, as well as the open-source ecosystem surrounding GitHub.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, an organization within CE&S, is leading the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading, AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovation solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence and nurture long term loyalty.
We are looking to hire hands-on Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) to join our diverse, talented, high performance, and innovative Technical Success team within the Developer Success focus area. The position is deeply technical and highly solution focused with unique opportunities to work on the most challenging and exciting projects within Microsoft, as well as providing an opportunity to drive feedback into core Microsoft products to help improve our platforms.
CSAs are senior individual contributors who operate globally and engage directly with customers. It is a hands-on technical role spanning across design, build, and production with a focus on issue resolution to remove customer production blockers. Candidates are expected to comfortably switch from a whiteboard to the keyboard. This is a truly exciting role that will feature unique and challenging technical problems to solve and to help our customers succeed.
This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
A Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) within the Technical Success team focused on Deeloper Success will be responsible for:
+ **Customer-Centric Approach:**
+ Understand customers' developer-centric priorities and success measures, with a focus on GitHub adoption and impact.
+ Innovate with Developer solutions that drive business value.
+ Ensure Solution Excellence: Deliver solutions with high performance, security, scalability, maintainability, repeatability, reusability, and reliability upon deployment. Gather insights from customers and partners.
+ **Business Impact:**
+ Drive Consumption Growth: Develop opportunities to enhance Customer Success and help customers extract value from their Microsoft investments. Curate and produce high quality guidance for our internal and external communities and customers.
+ Unblock Customer Challenges: Leverage subject matter expertise to identify resolutions for customer blockers. Follow best practices and utilize repeatable IP.
+ Build repeatable IP and assets that create velocity in deployment and drive customer value from their
+ Unified investment. Continuously look to improve upon these assets utilizing the best of field inputs.
+ Architect Developer Solutions: Apply technical knowledge to design solutions aligned with business and IT needs. Create Developer roadmaps, lead POCs and MVPs, and ensure long-term technical viability.
+ **Technical Leadership:**
+ Advocate for Customers: Share insights and best practices, collaborate with the Engineering team to address key blockers, and influence product improvements, roadmap and feature prioritization.
+ Continuous Learning: Stay updated on market trends, collaborate with the Developer and GitHub communities, and educate customers about the Microsoft's Developer technologies.
+ Accelerate Outcomes: Through engaging with field teams, share expertise, contribute to IP creation, and promote reusability to accelerate customer success, as well as collate feedback on assets to drive improvement and leverage field teams inputs.
**Qualifications**
**Required/Minimum Qualifications**
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or related field AND experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or Business Applications consulting OR equivalent experience.
**Additional or Preferred Qualifications**
+ Business Value: The ability to convey the business needs and value of proposed solutions, plans, and risks to stakeholders and decision makers. This includes the ability to persuade and inform based on facts and alignment with goals and strategy.
+ Trusted Advisership: The ability to build trusted advisor status and deep relationships across stakeholders (e.g., technical decision makers, business decision makers) through an understanding of customer needs and technologies.
+ Situational fluency: Using self-awareness as a mechanism to interpret verbal and non-verbal cues to increase your ability to "read the room."
+ Insightful listening: asking insightful questions to understand the customer needs, issues, business environment and drivers, and going beyond what customer has said.
**Technical**
+ Breadth of technical experience and knowledge in foundational security, DevOps practices, and architecture design, with depth / Subject Matter Expertise in one or more GitHub solution areas (e.g., Copilot, Advanced Security, Actions, or Enterprise Administration):
+ **Deep Domain Expertise in GitHub:** Advanced expertise in one or more GitHub solution areas-such as GitHub Copilot, Advanced Security, Enterprise Administration, or Actions, or hands-on experience working with these products at an expert level.
+ **Programming Languages and Integration:** Proficient with Python, C#, JavaScript, or similar programming languages in the context of modern application development, with the ability to integrate GitHub into development workflows and platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, Codespaces, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker)
+ **Architecting Enterprise-Grade Solutions:** Proven experience building enterprise-grade, Developer-focused solutions on the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) for customers, from Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) leading to production deployments.
+ **DevOps and GitHub Workflows:** Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD toolchains, with expertise in GitHub Actions, Codespaces, and workflow automation for enterprise-grade deployments.
+ Core GitHub Concepts: Familiarity with foundational GitHub capabilities such as version control (Git), branching strategies, repository management, pull request workflows, and integration with popular developer tools (VS Code, Docker, Kubernetes)
+ **Security and Compliance with GitHub:** Knowledge of GitHub Advanced Security, Dependabot, code scanning, and secret management. Understanding of secure software supply chain practices, compliance requirements, and governance.
+ **Competitive Landscape:** Awareness of the broader DevOps and SCM ecosystem, including platforms like GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, as well as the open-source ecosystem surrounding GitHub.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .
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Director of Presales Solution Architecture
Tyk Technologies
Posted 482 days ago
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Job Description
Who are Tyk, and what do we do?
The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services. Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)
If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London - UK, London - Ontario, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, T Mobile, to RBS, Capital One and Vinci. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.
Our Mission
Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.
Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility
We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world , for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.
If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.
Requirements
The role:
Tyk is actively seeking an accomplished and dynamic Director of Solution Architecture to lead and inspire our team of Solution Architects. As a key player in our EMEA Commercial Team, you will drive team development, foster a customer-centric culture, and achieve strategic goals. If you are a seasoned professional with a proven track record in technical leadership, customer engagement, and team management, we want to hear from you!
Here’s what you’ll be getting up to:
As the Director of Solution Architecture for our EMEA team you will:
- Manage and lead Solution Architects, overseeing their technical development
- Lead the development and execution of skill and personal development plans for the Solution Architecture Team.
- Ensure the proficiency of Solutions Architect specialists in effectively engaging with clients and prospects.
- Identify and nurture region-specific skills to comprehensively cover the entire technical stack.
- Provide training and equip Presales, Customer, and Channel Solution Architects for their respective roles.
- Develop assets, artifacts, and processes to elevate the team's operational standards.
- Review high-value customer engagements and execute success plans
- Enable Solution Architects to deliver a best-in-class customer experience.
- Cultivate and promote a proactive customer experience culture within the team.
- Serve as a regional point of escalation for technical support, providing guidance in high-value customer situations.
- Share team successes, aligning them with goals, targets, and expectations.
- Contribute to Tyk's market visibility through asset creation and active participation in events.
- Conduct stakeholder meetings to represent the customer and design shared processes
- Maintain accurate KPIs and OKRs
- Collaborate with the VP of Sales to set individual and team goals, regional revenue, and customer KPIs.
- Establish and drive OKRs for the regional Solution Architecture team.
- Collaborate with the VP of Sales to meet regional revenue targets
- Standardise processes and assets in collaboration with other Directors of Solution Architecture.
- Advocate for best practices and effectively communicate complex technical requirements to internal teams.
- Support other teams through constructive feedback, challenge, and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to business projects, GTM processes, and future growth plans.
- Engage directly with engineers and users to inform product and company vision.
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- Extensive expertise within solution architecture, cloud-native principles, and internet foundations.
- Solid experience as a people manager, developing high-performing teams.
- Background in solution architecture and knowledge of software development practices.
- Proficiency in Linux, scripting, internet technologies, and databases.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, deployment practices, and relevant technologies.
- Comprehensive experience in backend engineering or solution architecture for complex systems.
- Familiarity with K8s, EC2, AKS, Docker, GoLang, gRPC, GraphQL, SSL/TLS, Caching, Redis, Mongo, CI/CD.
- Proven experience defining, managing, and enabling successful proof of concepts.
- Advantageous: experience in Go, C, or C++ and domain expertise in API Management.
Benefits
Here’s why you should join us:
- Everyone has unlimited paid holidays.
- We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
- Employee share scheme
- Generous maternity and paternity leave
- Volunteering Days
- Company retreats
- Employee Wellbeing platform
We all share the same vision - we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? - to make what we do even better!
Our values tell the story of Tyk - here’s how:
- It’s ok to screw up!
We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones - so try it, at least we can say we have!
- The only stupid idea, is the untested one!
It’s in our DNA - starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free - sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!
- Trust starts with you - make it count!
Trust is a two-way street - instil it from day one!
- Assume best intent!
We have each other’s back - we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.
- Make things better!
Always try to leave things better than when you found them - change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.
What’s it like to work here! check it out:
Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
You can see more about us here
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3
Martech Solution Architecture - Analytics & AI Lead
London, London
Diageo
Posted 6 days ago
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**Job Description :** ROLE PROFILE Job Title: Martech Solution Architecture - Analytics & AI Lead Location: INDIA or UK (London) Reports To: Head of Martech Solution Architecture & Enterprise Integration Department Marketing CDT Context/Scope: Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company, a business built on the principles and foundations laid by the giants of our industry. Arthur Guinness, Alexander Walker, and many other dedicated people that followed in their footsteps, cared deeply about the people and businesses they fostered, and the communities in which they operated. Today we stand on the shoulders of these giants and act with the same entrepreneurial spirit. We are a spirited company born of an incredible entrepreneurial legacy. The success of Guinness®, Smirnoff®, Johnnie Walker®, Tanqueray®, Baileys® and many more brands led to the formation of our company in 1997. And we only thrive today because of the talent of our people to grow our brands, old and new, and keep them strong. Our purpose, celebrating life, every day, everywhere means that our brands are part of celebrations big and small. We believe that living our purpose in full is to make the most of life - to be the best you can be at work, at home, with friends, in the community, and for the community. In CDT, our objective is to provide world-class consumer experiences that drive brand & business growth - whilst doing so in the most efficient and sustainable way. We have stood-up 5 engines, supported by a transversal MarTech Transformation Office, to scale these outcomes in repeatable way - consistent technology, capabilities and operating models across marketing disciplines. We strive to create global tools to support markets and brands to deliver their shape of A&P in a productive manner. Financial - Indirect management responsibility for optimising cost of Analytics & AI technologies used across CDT, while maximising long-term value delivery in line with Martech strategy. Market Complexity - Global span Leadership Responsibilities & capabilities + Large matrix team leadership across domain Product Leads, Tech Leads and SMEs (~10) + 1-2 CDT senior stakeholders Engine Directors + 3-5 D&T senior stakeholders Consumer & Customer EA, other EAs and domain specific stakeholders Purpose of Role The Martech Solution Architecture - Analytics & AI Lead ensures that Diageo's marketing and consumer analytics technologies are architected to be secure, scalable, and innovative, enabling actionable insights, decision intelligence, and performance optimisation. This role drives architecture excellence across analytics domains including Consumer Planning and Insights, Digital Pulse of Consumer, Marketing Effectiveness and Media Optimisation, Experiential, Consumer Engagement, Commerce Experience, Digital Monitoring and Performance. They will also lead the design and implementation of AI and GenAI solution architectures across all Martech domains, ensuring consistency, compliance, and forward-looking innovation. Top Accountabilities **Technology Roadmaps, Architecture & Design** + Define and maintain domain-specific architecture roadmaps across analytics and AI, aligned with business priorities and enterprise standards. + Lead the definition and documentation of architecture supporting advanced analytics, real-time dashboards, marketing KPIs, and predictive models. + Translate business and marketing requirements into AI/analytics architecture patterns, technical solutions, and implementation blueprints. + Develop architecture patterns and reference implementations for responsible, compliant and scalable AI and GenAI use cases across Martech. <>· **System Integration & Data Flows** + Architect data pipelines and models across Martech domains and enterprise systems to enable real-time insights, experimentation and performance tracking. + Collaborate with data engineering teams to deliver a connected view of the consumer and marketing activity across platforms. **Tool Evaluation & Stack Rationalization** + Evaluate and recommend analytics platforms (BI, experimentation, customer intelligence) and AI solutions with fit-for-purpose capabilities. + Maintain strategic relationships with key analytics/AI vendors, contributing to their product roadmaps. + Identify opportunities to consolidate or sunset legacy tools and reduce stack complexity. **Governance, Privacy & Compliance** + Implement AI ethics, data privacy, and responsible use frameworks across AI/analytics solutions. + Partner with Legal, Security and Compliance to ensure adherence to data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA). **Cross-Functional Collaboration** + Partner with Product, Data Science, Media, Insights, and Martech Platform teams to align architecture with business outcomes. + Work closely with Enterprise Architects to ensure analytics/AI solutions fit into the broader technology strategy **Performance Optimization & Scalability** + Design for data scale, system performance and latency minimisation across analytical workflows. + Monitor system health and implement continuous optimisation across AI and analytics pipelines. **Documentation & Knowledge Sharing** + Produce and maintain architectural documentation, data flows, AI models architecture, and compliance controls. + Share best practices across teams and coach domain architects in AI and analytics technologies. Qualifications and Experience Required + 10+ years of experience in IT, data, or software engineering, including 5+ years in analytics and AI architecture roles. + Strong background in consumer and marketing analytics technologies, data platforms, and experience with experimentation platforms. + Hands-on experience with AI/ML, including GenAI architecture, LLMs, prompt engineering frameworks, and MLOps practices. + Proven leadership in designing and scaling data-driven solutions across global, matrixed organisations. + Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Barriers to Success in Role Success is seen as: + A scalable, secure, and performant analytics and AI architecture aligned with strategic goals. + Increased marketing agility and decision making through robust insights and predictive intelligence. + Consistent implementation of responsible AI and GenAI practices across domains. + Consolidation of analytics tools and reduction of technical debt. + Effective partnerships with Product, D&T, Data Science, and Insights functions to unlock business value from data. **Diversity statement:** Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. _If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application._ **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Bangalore Karle Town SEZ **Additional Locations :** 1HQ **Job Posting Start Date :** With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers - the brands we're building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you'll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you'll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you'll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we'll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential. **DRINKiQ** What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. You can discover everything you need to know at DRINKiQ (
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4
Business Analysis Team Leader
Newcastle, Northern Ireland
Sage
Posted 8 days ago
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Business Analysis Team Leader
Job Description:
At Sage, Solution Design is a function that includes the two crucial roles of Business Analyst and Product Owner. These roles are at the centre of our design teams that are formed with colleagues from user experience, content, user experience research and architecture. These teams work closely with product management, product marketing and development to deliver products and services that our users love.
The role has line management responsibility for a team of business analysts and product owners working in a specific part of the Accountants Business Unit. They are also accountable for the work this team delivers, supporting the team in scoping, managing requirements and designing their individual projects or features. They may even own projects or features themselves. They identify and manage risks and dependencies in a complex system landscape and excel in their field, helping to improve processes and performance across the team.
This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle or Manchester office.
This role:
- Is a recognised expert and leading performer in design craft in product .
- Delivers robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Delivers exceptional quality design projects covering product areas, whole products, or undefined spaces.
- Delivers high-performing, thriving and contented teams.
Key Responsibilities:
In this role you'll:
- Line manage solution designers, business analysts and/product owners
- Act as an expert in analysis and design in software product development
- Deliver robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Define, embed, and drive continual improvement to processes and practice, operating on a scale beyond their team.
- Drive change, deliver major strategic projects, and provide thought leadership on major workstreams
- Effectively communicate organisational and process change at all organisational and individual levels.
- Influence stakeholders, leadership, and thought leaders through engagement and outreach, to deliver tactical advances.
- Be fluent with constructive challenge.
- Drive requirements gathering and analysis, solution ideation, iteration, and design decision-making with evidence and rationale
We're looking for the following skills and experience:
Analysis and Design
- A recognised expert in solution design/business analysis.
- A recognised expert in analysis and design standards, processes, industry best practice, and trends.
- Systems-level design thinker and visionary with strong instincts and outstanding intuition.
- Has an uncanny sense of design, acts as a fierce advocate for the user, and is committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows.
- Understands not just execution of analysis and design, but the business aspects of products as well.
- Expert knowledge of industry-standard tools.
- Shares knowledge, skills, and inspires other team members.
Process, Practice, and Strategy
- Appropriate experience in defining effective high-level analysis and design processes, practice, and strategies.
- Ability to tailor textbook and industry-standard solutions to organisational and user context.
- Ability to operate with wide organisational scale and influence.
- Experience of influencing stakeholders and leadership to drive improvement.
Projects
- Appropriate experience of leading major projects and setting strategic direction.
- The ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
- Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work.
- Develops processes for tackling problems using known methods; anticipates problems; develops facilitation skills to engage cross-functional teams.
- Handle uncertainty and acute challenges with grace and calm.
- Are proactive, goal-oriented, and go after exciting challenges, rather than only being reactive.
People
- Appropriate experience of people management and team leadership.
- Demonstrates exceptional people skills - communication, presentation, negotiation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Expert in both leveraging strengths, and developing people.
- Experience of successful performance management.
- Experience of recruitment.
#LI-MD1
Function:
Product Delivery
Country:
United Kingdom
Office Location:
Newcastle;Manchester
Work Place type:
Hybrid
Advert
Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.
Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.
Learn more about working at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/
Watch a video about our culture:youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE
We celebrate individuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace all backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working. If you need support applying, reach out
Learn more about DEI at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Sage is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Sage will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Sage does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Job Description:
At Sage, Solution Design is a function that includes the two crucial roles of Business Analyst and Product Owner. These roles are at the centre of our design teams that are formed with colleagues from user experience, content, user experience research and architecture. These teams work closely with product management, product marketing and development to deliver products and services that our users love.
The role has line management responsibility for a team of business analysts and product owners working in a specific part of the Accountants Business Unit. They are also accountable for the work this team delivers, supporting the team in scoping, managing requirements and designing their individual projects or features. They may even own projects or features themselves. They identify and manage risks and dependencies in a complex system landscape and excel in their field, helping to improve processes and performance across the team.
This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle or Manchester office.
This role:
- Is a recognised expert and leading performer in design craft in product .
- Delivers robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Delivers exceptional quality design projects covering product areas, whole products, or undefined spaces.
- Delivers high-performing, thriving and contented teams.
Key Responsibilities:
In this role you'll:
- Line manage solution designers, business analysts and/product owners
- Act as an expert in analysis and design in software product development
- Deliver robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Define, embed, and drive continual improvement to processes and practice, operating on a scale beyond their team.
- Drive change, deliver major strategic projects, and provide thought leadership on major workstreams
- Effectively communicate organisational and process change at all organisational and individual levels.
- Influence stakeholders, leadership, and thought leaders through engagement and outreach, to deliver tactical advances.
- Be fluent with constructive challenge.
- Drive requirements gathering and analysis, solution ideation, iteration, and design decision-making with evidence and rationale
We're looking for the following skills and experience:
Analysis and Design
- A recognised expert in solution design/business analysis.
- A recognised expert in analysis and design standards, processes, industry best practice, and trends.
- Systems-level design thinker and visionary with strong instincts and outstanding intuition.
- Has an uncanny sense of design, acts as a fierce advocate for the user, and is committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows.
- Understands not just execution of analysis and design, but the business aspects of products as well.
- Expert knowledge of industry-standard tools.
- Shares knowledge, skills, and inspires other team members.
Process, Practice, and Strategy
- Appropriate experience in defining effective high-level analysis and design processes, practice, and strategies.
- Ability to tailor textbook and industry-standard solutions to organisational and user context.
- Ability to operate with wide organisational scale and influence.
- Experience of influencing stakeholders and leadership to drive improvement.
Projects
- Appropriate experience of leading major projects and setting strategic direction.
- The ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
- Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work.
- Develops processes for tackling problems using known methods; anticipates problems; develops facilitation skills to engage cross-functional teams.
- Handle uncertainty and acute challenges with grace and calm.
- Are proactive, goal-oriented, and go after exciting challenges, rather than only being reactive.
People
- Appropriate experience of people management and team leadership.
- Demonstrates exceptional people skills - communication, presentation, negotiation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Expert in both leveraging strengths, and developing people.
- Experience of successful performance management.
- Experience of recruitment.
#LI-MD1
Function:
Product Delivery
Country:
United Kingdom
Office Location:
Newcastle;Manchester
Work Place type:
Hybrid
Advert
Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.
Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.
Learn more about working at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/
Watch a video about our culture:youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE
We celebrate individuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace all backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working. If you need support applying, reach out
Learn more about DEI at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Sage is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Sage will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Sage does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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5
Business Analysis Team Leader
Manchester, North West
Sage
Posted 8 days ago
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Business Analysis Team Leader
Job Description:
At Sage, Solution Design is a function that includes the two crucial roles of Business Analyst and Product Owner. These roles are at the centre of our design teams that are formed with colleagues from user experience, content, user experience research and architecture. These teams work closely with product management, product marketing and development to deliver products and services that our users love.
The role has line management responsibility for a team of business analysts and product owners working in a specific part of the Accountants Business Unit. They are also accountable for the work this team delivers, supporting the team in scoping, managing requirements and designing their individual projects or features. They may even own projects or features themselves. They identify and manage risks and dependencies in a complex system landscape and excel in their field, helping to improve processes and performance across the team.
This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle or Manchester office.
This role:
- Is a recognised expert and leading performer in design craft in product .
- Delivers robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Delivers exceptional quality design projects covering product areas, whole products, or undefined spaces.
- Delivers high-performing, thriving and contented teams.
Key Responsibilities:
In this role you'll:
- Line manage solution designers, business analysts and/product owners
- Act as an expert in analysis and design in software product development
- Deliver robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Define, embed, and drive continual improvement to processes and practice, operating on a scale beyond their team.
- Drive change, deliver major strategic projects, and provide thought leadership on major workstreams
- Effectively communicate organisational and process change at all organisational and individual levels.
- Influence stakeholders, leadership, and thought leaders through engagement and outreach, to deliver tactical advances.
- Be fluent with constructive challenge.
- Drive requirements gathering and analysis, solution ideation, iteration, and design decision-making with evidence and rationale
We're looking for the following skills and experience:
Analysis and Design
- A recognised expert in solution design/business analysis.
- A recognised expert in analysis and design standards, processes, industry best practice, and trends.
- Systems-level design thinker and visionary with strong instincts and outstanding intuition.
- Has an uncanny sense of design, acts as a fierce advocate for the user, and is committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows.
- Understands not just execution of analysis and design, but the business aspects of products as well.
- Expert knowledge of industry-standard tools.
- Shares knowledge, skills, and inspires other team members.
Process, Practice, and Strategy
- Appropriate experience in defining effective high-level analysis and design processes, practice, and strategies.
- Ability to tailor textbook and industry-standard solutions to organisational and user context.
- Ability to operate with wide organisational scale and influence.
- Experience of influencing stakeholders and leadership to drive improvement.
Projects
- Appropriate experience of leading major projects and setting strategic direction.
- The ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
- Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work.
- Develops processes for tackling problems using known methods; anticipates problems; develops facilitation skills to engage cross-functional teams.
- Handle uncertainty and acute challenges with grace and calm.
- Are proactive, goal-oriented, and go after exciting challenges, rather than only being reactive.
People
- Appropriate experience of people management and team leadership.
- Demonstrates exceptional people skills - communication, presentation, negotiation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Expert in both leveraging strengths, and developing people.
- Experience of successful performance management.
- Experience of recruitment.
#LI-MD1
Function:
Product Delivery
Country:
United Kingdom
Office Location:
Newcastle;Manchester
Work Place type:
Hybrid
Advert
Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.
Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.
Learn more about working at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/
Watch a video about our culture:youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE
We celebrate individuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace all backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working. If you need support applying, reach out
Learn more about DEI at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Sage is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Sage will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Sage does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Job Description:
At Sage, Solution Design is a function that includes the two crucial roles of Business Analyst and Product Owner. These roles are at the centre of our design teams that are formed with colleagues from user experience, content, user experience research and architecture. These teams work closely with product management, product marketing and development to deliver products and services that our users love.
The role has line management responsibility for a team of business analysts and product owners working in a specific part of the Accountants Business Unit. They are also accountable for the work this team delivers, supporting the team in scoping, managing requirements and designing their individual projects or features. They may even own projects or features themselves. They identify and manage risks and dependencies in a complex system landscape and excel in their field, helping to improve processes and performance across the team.
This is a hybrid role - three days per week in our Newcastle or Manchester office.
This role:
- Is a recognised expert and leading performer in design craft in product .
- Delivers robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Delivers exceptional quality design projects covering product areas, whole products, or undefined spaces.
- Delivers high-performing, thriving and contented teams.
Key Responsibilities:
In this role you'll:
- Line manage solution designers, business analysts and/product owners
- Act as an expert in analysis and design in software product development
- Deliver robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
- Define, embed, and drive continual improvement to processes and practice, operating on a scale beyond their team.
- Drive change, deliver major strategic projects, and provide thought leadership on major workstreams
- Effectively communicate organisational and process change at all organisational and individual levels.
- Influence stakeholders, leadership, and thought leaders through engagement and outreach, to deliver tactical advances.
- Be fluent with constructive challenge.
- Drive requirements gathering and analysis, solution ideation, iteration, and design decision-making with evidence and rationale
We're looking for the following skills and experience:
Analysis and Design
- A recognised expert in solution design/business analysis.
- A recognised expert in analysis and design standards, processes, industry best practice, and trends.
- Systems-level design thinker and visionary with strong instincts and outstanding intuition.
- Has an uncanny sense of design, acts as a fierce advocate for the user, and is committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows.
- Understands not just execution of analysis and design, but the business aspects of products as well.
- Expert knowledge of industry-standard tools.
- Shares knowledge, skills, and inspires other team members.
Process, Practice, and Strategy
- Appropriate experience in defining effective high-level analysis and design processes, practice, and strategies.
- Ability to tailor textbook and industry-standard solutions to organisational and user context.
- Ability to operate with wide organisational scale and influence.
- Experience of influencing stakeholders and leadership to drive improvement.
Projects
- Appropriate experience of leading major projects and setting strategic direction.
- The ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
- Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work.
- Develops processes for tackling problems using known methods; anticipates problems; develops facilitation skills to engage cross-functional teams.
- Handle uncertainty and acute challenges with grace and calm.
- Are proactive, goal-oriented, and go after exciting challenges, rather than only being reactive.
People
- Appropriate experience of people management and team leadership.
- Demonstrates exceptional people skills - communication, presentation, negotiation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Expert in both leveraging strengths, and developing people.
- Experience of successful performance management.
- Experience of recruitment.
#LI-MD1
Function:
Product Delivery
Country:
United Kingdom
Office Location:
Newcastle;Manchester
Work Place type:
Hybrid
Advert
Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.
Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.
Learn more about working at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/
Watch a video about our culture:youtube.com/watch?v=qIoiCpZH-QE
We celebrate individuality and welcome you to join us if you embrace all backgrounds, identities, beliefs, and ways of working. If you need support applying, reach out
Learn more about DEI at Sage:sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Sage is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Sage will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Sage does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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Business Analysis Professional Traine
£32000 - £54000 annum
e-Careers Limited
Posted 365 days ago
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NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY Are you looking to build a career working in an office environment? Does a future in Business Analysis appeal to you?
If so, this opportunity could be for you!
Due to a severe skills shortage in the marketplace, Business Analysts are in high demand.
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- Quickest way to build an exciting career in the business world, whether you have little or no prior experience.
- Gain the skills, knowledge and certification required for a career in the Business analysis.
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- This programme is a great alternative to attending university or college, as this pathway offers a quicker and more flexible route to success in this sector.
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Payment/Solution Architect (with business analysis expertise)
Chester, North West
Ascendion
Posted 7 days ago
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Job Description:
- We are seeking a Payments/Solution Architect with strong expertise in payment system architecture, clearing mechanisms, and business analysis. The ideal candidate should have experience in SEPA (SCT & Instant), RTGS, ACH, ISO 20022 migration, SWIFT messaging (MT/MX), and cross-border payments.
- This role requires both technical leadership and business analysis proficiency, ensuring seamless design and implementation of payment solutions while engaging with regulators, payment schemes, and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and design payment solutions aligned with global standards, including SEPA SCT/Instant, RTGS, ACH, & TARGET2.
- Lead business analysis activities, including functional requirement gathering, solution documentation, and process reengineering.
- Lead ISO 20022 migration projects, ensuring alignment with SWIFT MX and GPI standards.
- Collaborate with regulators and payment schemes to facilitate direct or indirect participation in payment networks.
- Conduct gap analysis and requirement validation to ensure completeness and accuracy in payment system implementations.
- Drive payment system modernization initiatives, including real-time payment processing, accelerated settlements, and API-based payment integrations.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in Payment Architecture, Solution Design, and Business Analysis within the banking or fintech sector.
- Expertise in SEPA SCT & Instant, RTGS, ACH, SWIFT (MT/MX), ISO 20022, and real-time payments.
- Strong knowledge of payment settlement mechanisms and FX integration.
- Experience working with payment system regulators and payment scheme participation (direct/indirect).
- Proficiency in requirement gathering, process mapping, and gap analysis to identify and mitigate missed requirements.
- Hands-on experience with payment orchestration, billing integration, and high-value/low-value payment processing.
- Experience in Agile methodologies, working with cross-functional teams in a financial institution or fintech environment.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders across business, operations, IT, and regulatory bodies to ensure smooth implementation of payment solutions.
About Us:
- Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information, please go to .
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Payment/Solution Architect (with business analysis expertise)
Chester, North West
Ascendion
Posted today
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Job Description
Job Description
Job Description:
- We are seeking a Payments/Solution Architect with strong expertise in payment system architecture, clearing mechanisms, and business analysis. The ideal candidate should have experience in SEPA (SCT & Instant), RTGS, ACH, ISO 20022 migration, SWIFT messaging (MT/MX), and cross-border payments.
- This role requires both technical leadership and business analysis proficiency, ensuring seamless design and implementation of payment solutions while engaging with regulators, payment schemes, and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and design payment solutions aligned with global standards, including SEPA SCT/Instant, RTGS, ACH, & TARGET2.
- Lead business analysis activities, including functional requirement gathering, solution documentation, and process reengineering.
- Lead ISO 20022 migration projects, ensuring alignment with SWIFT MX and GPI standards.
- Collaborate with regulators and payment schemes to facilitate direct or indirect participation in payment networks.
- Conduct gap analysis and requirement validation to ensure completeness and accuracy in payment system implementations.
- Drive payment system modernization initiatives, including real-time payment processing, accelerated settlements, and API-based payment integrations.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in Payment Architecture, Solution Design, and Business Analysis within the banking or fintech sector.
- Expertise in SEPA SCT & Instant, RTGS, ACH, SWIFT (MT/MX), ISO 20022, and real-time payments.
- Strong knowledge of payment settlement mechanisms and FX integration.
- Experience working with payment system regulators and payment scheme participation (direct/indirect).
- Proficiency in requirement gathering, process mapping, and gap analysis to identify and mitigate missed requirements.
- Hands-on experience with payment orchestration, billing integration, and high-value/low-value payment processing.
- Experience in Agile methodologies, working with cross-functional teams in a financial institution or fintech environment.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders across business, operations, IT, and regulatory bodies to ensure smooth implementation of payment solutions.
About Us:
- Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” (EngineeringAI) methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information, please go to
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