Solution Designer

Solution Designer

Circa £60,000 + benefits

Up to 8 months fixed term contract (paternity cover)

Full-time (35 hours per week)

Wimbledon (flexible and hybrid working)

 

The role

 

As Solutions Designer, you will translate business requirements and design effective digital solutions as part of a wider technical team. You will be working alongside other digital professionals and architect and you will contribute towards delivering the Digital Transformation ensuring that technical designs are in keeping with the CIPD’s business strategy, IT principles and strategic goals.

 

What you’ll be doing

 

• Working alongside Systems Architect to design, develop and implement the core building blocks of the high-level architecture.
• Working within projects to ensure solutions align to the overall strategy, comply to organisations Enterprise Architecture, IT design and development standards.

• Providing technical design input for new digital programmes, projects and workstreams for contributing to the selection, evaluation and discovery phase of new software implementation projects.
• Supporting development of end-to-end solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Ensuring technical architecture of digital projects translates into programme delivery with regards to solutions with technology element.
• Ongoing technical focal point to provide technical guidance throughout the project / programme lifecycle to help make progress and resolve issues.
• Contributing to high level estimating, risk assessment (identify potential risks and challenges associated with the proposed solution and work on mitigating them), GAP analysis within the project.
• Define and optionally creating proof of concepts or prototypes.

 

What you’ll need to be successful

 

• Experience in Development, Design or Solution Architecture.

• Experience translating software requirements into technical design blueprints or solutions.
• Exposure to multi-tier architecture environment including APIs, integrated packaged software products (COTS, iPaaS, SaaS), Service Oriented Architecture.
• Familiarity with Enterprise software implementation and Identity and Access Management.
• Good broad understanding of current and emerging technologies and how they may be applied at the CIPD to drive digital business such as APIs, Messaging, Cloud environments, Databases, Networking and Security.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain digital concepts and technologies for senior leaders and key stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders to achieve results through Agile Methodology, Modelling Tools (Bizzdesign), Continuous Integration and DevOps.

 

About us

 

We’ve been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. We help organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. We’re the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals – experts in people, work and change. With over 160,000 members globally – and a growing community using our research, insights and learning – we give trusted advice and offer independent thought leadership. And we are a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone.

 

We offer an inclusive and collaborative working environment, a wide range of development opportunities and a competitive benefits package, including 28 days’ annual leave (with the option to buy and sell), a personal development allowance, access to an award-winning pension scheme and a strong focus on wellbeing, including a cashback health scheme. We also support colleagues at different life stages, with enhanced parental leave, fertility and family-forming support, and support for those who are full-time carers for their loved ones.

We value everyone as an individual and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where different perspectives are welcomed, ensuring fair opportunities for all and strengthening how we work and deliver impact together.

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