ANS is seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect to join our Professional Services team. This role is integral to our delivery architecture, focusing on Business Applications, Power Platform, Azure, and Modern Workplace technologies. The successful candidate will support the Head of Business Applications in strategic initiatives, ensuring the delivery of world-class services to our clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Customer Engagement: Establish and maintain robust relationships with clients, ensuring a deep understanding of their business and technical needs. Deliver solutions that consistently exceed expectations and drive value.
- Technical Excellence: Maintain expertise in Business Applications and related technologies. Ensure high-quality project deliverables and uphold technical and implementation governance standards.
- Project Governance: Architect, implement, and maintain Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) frameworks. Collaborate with Project Managers and Account Managers to ensure project success and identify new engagement opportunities.
- Team Support: Act as a role model by sharing best practices, coaching, and mentoring team members. Promote a culture of continuous improvement and thought leadership.
- Company Development: Contribute to strategic initiatives, driving innovation and supporting the company's growth objectives.
Skills and Qualifications:
- An expert in the Business Applications suite – able to demonstrate successfully leading scores of implementations of various tailored solutions with positive customer outcomes. This should include all core 1st party applications with complex migration and integration implementations across Azure and other technologies.
- Expert knowledge of Power Platform components, their capabilities, and their application in the technical landscape
- Proven knowledge and experience implementing and maintaining ALM best practice and technical governance.
- Familiarity and implementation experience using Success by Design and Catalyst frameworks.
- Solid understanding of Waterfall and Agile methodologies as well as Organisation Change Management frameworks such as Prosci.
- Expert facilitator in business mapping, requirement gathering, blueprinting and evangelisation sessions with stakeholders.
- Demonstratable business, commercial, project and technical acumen in combination to deliver high quality solutions, based on accurate estimates and plans, to further enhance value to all stakeholders.
- A passionate leader, able to drive and organise their team to provide the most effective outcome for all engagements.
If you possess the required skills and experience and are eager to contribute to a dynamic and innovative team, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity at ANS.
Why work at ANS?
Why work for ANS?
At ANS, we’ve created a place where everyone can be themselves, and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness, ambition, honesty, and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold, courageous, and innovative – and we do it like no other. We invest in our people. In training, development, health and more – we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.
We’re proud of the inclusive, fun, dynamic environment we’ve created. It’s a safe space that works for all. You don’t have to be a techie to work in tech. Bring your authentic self and find your dream role here. Find out more at LinkedIn pages.
What’s in it for you?
With fantastic benefits, an inclusive culture, and a cool office space, we’re your kind of workplace.
Company benefits
- As standard: 25 days’ holiday, plus you can buy up to 5 more days
- A little extra: we’ll give you your birthday off, and an extra celebration day for whatever you want! Tying the knot? You get 5 days’ additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh, and 5 volunteer days!
- Private health insurance
- Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
- Flexible working and work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
- Maternity: 16 weeks’ full pay, Paternity: 3 weeks’ full pay, Adoption: 16 weeks’ full pay
- Company social events – get ready for a jam-packed calendar
- Electric car scheme
- 12 days of personal growth development time
ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes only.
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What We Do
We are ANS. We’re a strong team of straight-talking tech and business experts. Our mission is to make digital transformation accessible to all.
We make enterprise-grade technology, knowledge and processes accessible and affordable for all companies, large or small, no matter the size of their budget. We hack the tech adoption curve, bringing technology usually reserved for large corporates first, to small and medium organisations too. We’re on a mission to help companies Think Bigger.
We’re trusted by our customers because we help them achieve their goals. Be it a digital transformation project for a 2000-person government body or helping a 10-person labels maker take their business online.
Our people are the lifeblood of our business. They dream up solutions that have never been delivered before. They dare to tackle problems no one else can. Every day they wake up and challenge the status quo. It’s no wonder we’ve been hailed the mavericks of the tech industry.
