Solutions Architect

We’re a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is ‘Expert Hand, Human Touch’ – something you’ll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But, we’re more than just a law firm – we’re a team, working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life’s ups and downs.

Whichever team you join, working here you’ll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment. We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things, and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

The work we do has been recognised in the awards we’ve won. We’re committed to being even better, and our awards help to show we’re on the right track.

We recognise that the office 9-5 isn’t for everyone. That’s why we’ve introduced ‘Flexible by Choice’. Whether it’s working from home, in our offices, or a combination of the both, we trust each other to support our clients, colleagues and communities at the right time, in the right way.

Please note, this role is on an 18 month FTC

Our vision is to provide an industry leading, sustainable silent IT service delivering business agility through environmentally sustainable, resilient, scalable data centre services, enterprise level back up and disaster recovery (DR), and automation our IT service management capabilities (ITSM). We are looking for an experienced Solutions Architect with significant experience in designing back up and archiving solutions along with integrated business solutions to support outstanding IT service management.

You will be responsible for working closely with 3rd parties to design and implement our Silent IT Service needs, designing solutions that exploit tools such as ServiceNow and infrastructure technologies such as Azure to ensure that our IT services are highly resilient and in the event of an incident are swiftly returned to service. You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of all DR, Back Up and IT tooling architectural artefacts, including standards, reference architectures and patterns and roadmaps. You will be working very closely with our future Managed Service Provider (for Service Desk, Infrastructure and Data Centres and digital and physical workplaces). Evidence of strong collaboration, cross team working and commercial approach to decision making is required. Experience working with Microsoft technologies is a must. Experience implementing service management solutions using ServiceNow is advantageous.

• Comprehensive and wide-ranging experience of creating and implementing solution designs in an IT context (breadth preferred)
• Experience of working alongside external technology partners to influence solutions and execute our strategy.
• Microsoft (or equivalent) Certifications, TOGAF 9, ITIL, Scrum, Prince2 qualifications are advantageous
• Experience in selecting and delivering cloud-based solutions.
• Experience of integration between applications, both COTS and bespoke
• Advanced IT skills – in-depth knowledge of one or more of: IT infrastructure, database management, development frameworks, cloud computing, micro-services architecture, data integration, telephony & mobile device management, Business Intelligence/Data Science
• Able to give direction to IT technical staff (provides supervision even when not in a direct reporting relationship)
• Able to apply relevant technical governance effectively to ensure alignment with standards, policies and strategy (works within scrutiny for own work and provides scrutiny for the work of others)
• Able to apply curiosity, logic, and experience to find solutions to complex problems and engage other people in evaluating an implementing solutions (Complex problem-solving ability at all levels)

• 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy additional leave
• Two fundraising days in a year to give back to the community (fully paid!)
• Westfield Health membership, offering discounted leisure and travel and refunds on medical services

We also offer a huge number of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace as well as flexible working options to ensure that you are fully supported to work the way that best suits you. Our social responsibility programme is fundamental to who we are. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish. We have a range of groups to celebrate our people across sexuality, disability, age, gender and culture.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, existing employees, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

Depending on the role you apply for we may carry out checks that will establish your eligibility to work in the UK, and criminal record check and financial checks with a credit reference agency will also be undertaken.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.