Solutions Designer - Contract - Liverpool

Placed: 02/12/17
Region: Merseyside
Location: Liverpool
Category: Jobs


Content of the advertisement:

Solutions Designer Contract - Liverpool

3 months

£450 - £500 per day

Liverpool

Our client is a leading service provider that work with a variety of B2B and B2C sectors across the UK that are continuing to grow year on year.

As part of their transformation programme, they are seeking an experienced Software Solutions Designer to work closely with the software development teams to deliver business solutions.

The ideal candidate will have excellent experience of understanding business processes and systems that support these.

Key responsibilities will include: -

* Outline development roadmap vision, working with business stakeholders and Enterprise Architect in defining the scope of change

* Manage and run a series of user story mapping workshops with stakeholders at various levels of the business
* Writing user stories to a definition of ready for development
* Perform peer reviews of user stories written by other analysts
* Attend scrum meetings and assist development with understanding context of the stories
* Take ownership of the Software Solution Design documentation within a squad and manage the updates of this until the functionality is released to production
* Communicate the software solution design to the Solution Design team ensuring any decisions on technologies are documented and progressed with the relevant parties
* Build key working relationships with stakeholders in the business and working with them through the delivery of solutions and management of their expectations
* Perform release planning, working with the Head of Application Solution Design to define the development roadmap
* Work with the UX team to define user journeys for our products and shape the UX process

Solutions Architect Skills & Experience

* Agile methodologies
* Agile Project Management Software (Jira, Target Process)
* Microservice architecture
* Event Sourcing architecture
* Database technologies (incl My SQL and Mongo DB)
* Event streaming technologies (Kafka)
* Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications (especially PowerPoint and Visio)
* RESTful APIs

This is an exciting opportunity to deliver real business benefits within a fact paced environment.

Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration

Price / Salary: £450 - £500/day