Lead Solution Architect - M365

Inspire People are working with the Bank of England to seek an experienced Technical Architect with expertise in implementing Microsoft SaaS offerings and working with Azure. The Technology Directorate helps enable the Bank to deliver on our collective mission to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability.

About the Role - In this role you will be responsible for leading a number of programmes including on-prem to Azure migrations whilst implementing Microsoft offerings such as M365, Dynamics, SharePoint Online, and Power Platforms. You must be a critical thinker, with the ability to research and provide summarized results/recommendations whilst being able to prioritize your work, anticipate problems, and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities:

• Taking a leading role on programmes and projects, understanding business imperatives and developing solutions that deliver against the requirements aligned to business and technology strategies
• Contributing to moving the organization from E3 to E5
• Responsible for crafting and producing architectural artifacts for end-to-end solutions, baseline and target architectures, solution blueprints, including high-level design that are aligned to architecture standards, principles, and patterns
• A technology ambassador, representing architecture and technology at governance forums and being an advocate for the solutions, strategies, and roadmaps produced by the team
• Responsible for contributing to the development and maintenance of the architecture building blocks, architecture repository, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Helping to improve architecture processes and mentor junior architects within the team

Qualifications:

• Experience of document and records management systems and their implementations
• Extensive experience of the Microsoft offerings especially with regards to; M365, Dynamics, SharePoint Online, Power Platforms and moving organizations from E3 to E5
• Experience in communication and collaboration systems and their implementations
• Experience of Azure Cloud implementations and considerations for on-premise V cloud hosted
• Experience of Productivity and Automation tools and offerings
• Experience with different methodologies e.g. agile and/or waterfall environment, proof of concepts and prototyping
• Experience with sophisticated large scale data and analytics solutions including design of data lifecycle capabilities
• Experience with different database technologies (eg. SQL, NoSQL / time series etc)

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge and exposure of financial regulation / financial services and FTSE 100 organization
• Experience of MS Copilots and other related generative AI capabilities
• Experience working with architectural methodologies and frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman) and experience in architecture modeling tools
• Awareness of industry trends across wider technology e.g. RegTech, Cloud, Big data & Analytics, and Cyber security etc.

Pay range and compensation package - This specific role offers a base salary of £78,310 - £90,360 London based and £70,501 - £81,360 Leeds based per-annum on a full-time basis. In addition, BoE also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits program each year.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool (8% - 20%)
• Guaranteed 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days’ annual leave with the option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.
• Dental cover
• Interest-free season ticket loan