Solutions Architect
Location
Manchester (will require nationwide travel to client sites)
Overview
The Solutions Architect will be responsible for designing, developing and documenting the structure of a application. The candidate will define and describe the information, relationships, and navigation models at the product, screen, and module levels. The candidate will develop approaches to the categorisation and hierarchical structure of metadata, content and content types.
Responsibilities
- Employ user-centred design processes to ensure that information is useful and usable.
- Communicate and document design decisions effectively using images and text.
- Understand and diagram relationships between content or features.
- Develop hierarchical classification systems for navigation and other categorisation needs.
- Devise taxonomy tagging schemes for information access via search or browse.
- Establish approach to requirements gathering, prioritising, and tracking.
- Establish, document, maintain and revise functional specifications.
- Document all levels of prototypes through final specifications including workflow, interaction requirements, etc.
Experience/Skills
- Understanding of how explicit business value can be synthesised into innovative design solutions.
- Excellent skills in concept development and design implementation.
- Excellent ability in design and solution development.
- Diagrammatic sensibility; strong orientation toward 'modelling'.
- Excellent verbal and written skills.
- Visualisation skills or the ability to leverage design resources to visually articulate models.
- Strong sense of process and the ability to innovate on process tools and conventions.
- Solid command of User Experience offerings (across research and design).
- Administrated commitment to mentor and share knowledge across teams and company-wide.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree (BA or BSc) in business information systems, interaction design, design planning, communications, or human centered design preferred. Additionally, relevant work experience in one or two of the above areas may substitute for advanced degree.
- 2-3 years experience developing digital products, such as websites or software, experience in document and content management systems preferable.
- Experience in client services and in negotiating business decisions.
- Experience observing user research and translating user research into design decisions.
- Project experience in working with teams.
- Experience in working on multiple projects simultaneously.
