Solution Architect

Reading/Exeter/Remote

What it's like to work at Landmark:

At Landmark, you'll find a friendly, dynamic, and supportive team that values bold ideas, big dreams, and active curiosity. We foster a culture of innovation, encouraging everyone to contribute to the development and direction of our products and services, while continuously seeking new and efficient ways to work.

Collaboration and sociability are at the heart of what we do, and we take pride in coming together to achieve great things.

We offer a range of benefits to support your well-being and career growth, including:

• Competitive Salary
• Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option of adding up to 5 additional unpaid leave days per year
• Annual Lifestyle Allowance: £300 to spend on an activity of your choice
• Pension Scheme: Matched up to 6% for the first 3 years, and up to 10% thereafter
• Private Health Insurance: Provided by Vitality
• Group Income Protection Scheme
• Charitable Fundraising: Matched funding for your efforts
• Cycle to Work and Gym Flex Schemes
• Internal Coaching and Mentoring: Available throughout your time with us
• Training and Career Progression: A strong focus on your development
• Family-Friendly Policies
• Free Parking

Join us at Landmark and be part of a team that supports your ambitions and growth, both personally and professionally.

The Opportunity

The Solution Architect is responsible for defining the solution view for specific problems in the enterprise, from the application, data, and infrastructure perspectives across Landmark Information Group, whilst ensuring alignment with the architecture strategy.

Your role will involve:

• Defining and owning the solution architectures, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states
• Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment to the architecture strategy, vision and principles
• Communicating solution architectures at the governing architecture review board, and addressing any actions
• Working with Software Engineering to ensure implementation alignment to the solution
• Managing architectural risk and debt at a solution level

About You

To be successful as a Solution Architect you will have experience in a similar role and be someone who can communicate to all levels of stakeholders. You will demonstrate excellent skills in solution architecture, including defining architectural functional and non-functional requirements, architectural diagrams, data flows, total cost of ownership, standards and design patterns.

You will also have/be:

• Collaborative, curious, creative and accountable
• Proven experience of defining, communicating and delivering quality solution architectures in one or both of the following clouds; Azure and AWS, as well as on-premise and hybrid environments
• Enthusiasm for the technology and property industries, with an ability to identify innovation opportunities
• Question the why? Be able to ask questions, suggest alternative options and drive continuous improvement
• Commercially astute
• Experience of application development/architecture would be a distinct advantage

About Us

Landmark Information Group holds a wide portfolio of market leading PropTech businesses that span an incredible range of markets and technology platforms across the sector.  With well-known application suites, online services and massive national scale property data as well as premier geospatial datasets we are at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership in the industry.

We deliver award-winning solutions to estate agencies, conveyancing, surveying, lender valuations, land asset management, environmental consultancy, and Government markets.  This is a chance to join the business as we make major steps forward in leveraging the latest cloud and large-scale technologies to start bringing together the entire market to a unified platform.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.