Balfour Beatty

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Solution Architect to join our dynamic team, working across the UK and offshore. As part of our digital transformation, we’re harnessing our people power and innovation to lead an industry shift from paper and pen to data-driven digital processes and decision making. This means that the opportunities to make an impact are almost endless.

Your experience and ideas will help change the way our industry works.

We are looking to upgrade our core systems with purpose – as well as maximising our productivity across the back office, we want

to aggressively build out digital solutions into resource and logistics management underpinned by financial, commercial and procurement improvements.

We need energetic, knowledgeable, and passionate individuals to be the bridge between our business and technical teams to help meet ambitious outcomes. You will have the flexibility to be based at any of our main office locations, and you’ll become a well-

known face on our key contracts including Sizewell C, HS2, CPS M25, and our Highways projects amongst many others.

What you'll be doing

• Will be our lead technologist. You will understand and immerse yourself in strategic technologies from Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, and Google. You will understand, or quickly build an understanding of, more industry specific technologies from Autodesk, Trimble, Causeway and Confirm. We also expect you to work with SMEs and organisations such as universities to bring innovation into our solutions. You will immerse yourself in, and lead from the front on our burgeoning AI solutions as we look to deploy these into operational activity and all that entails.
• Will be our lead solutions problem solver. You will lead practically on major and minor programmes of change - problem solving, optioneering, and driving technical change while managing workload (and the resource in your team). Your knowledge and leadership will be required when critical situations arise. You will foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging the wider team to stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends, and driving the adoption of new tools and techniques where appropriate.
• Will ensure that our standards of architecture and activity meet our governance and widely recognised best-practice standards as well as ensuring alignment with our overall IT strategy. You will ensure your, your team’s outputs, build and help maintain cost-efficient, scalable solutions. You will own the assurance of designs for what is delivered via our technical and project delivery teams and hold them and our service teams to account to improve our quality and reliability.
• Will support our business’ bidding and mobilisation of contracts by engaging and explaining our current capabilities, thinking
• laterally and creatively on how to meet client needs, and develop narratives around digital innovation. You will focus on how to
• address the operational and cultural challenges of a highly mobile workforce with requirements to consume services securely
• from corporate devices across the UK 24 x 7.
• Will lead our Architects. You will ensure high technical standards of output from the solution architects as well as mentoring and development of your team across a range of experience and seniority. You will liaise and co-ordinate with the full range of operational technical capability, from field engineering, infrastructure, and service teams, to ensure our solutions are optimised
• for delivery into the business.
• Will be an effective conduit of knowledge with colleagues across IT and business teams. You will be in regular contact with our CIO, Enterprise Architects, IT Senior Leadership Team as well as business and digital leaders, and critically, all facets of our workforce. You will understand business objectives and match both individual solutions and the wider integration of solutions to facilitate these objectives, with an emphasis on ease of adoption to key processes for our key stakeholders on our project
• sites

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

About us

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com

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