Solution Architect - Digital Workplace

Summary

• Based at Manchester Airport
• Permanent Role
• We are proud to be a diverse employer, and we welcome candidates from all backgrounds
• Office or Flexible / Hybrid working for a better work / life balance

Why MAG?

Manchester Airport Group

At MAG we provide the airport facilities and travel services that people need to connect with the world. As the largest UK owned airport operator, we serve over 60 million passengers a year from Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands Airports. With over 270 destinations across the globe, our businesses not only bring people together but also support the prosperity of the regions in which we operate. Sustainability is one of our core values, and it shapes everything we do. We're committed to protecting the environment and supporting our local communities. Our programmes include airport and airline decarbonisation, comprehensive education, skills and employment support and community engagement initiatives including volunteering opportunities. At MAG, we recognise creating a first-class journey for our customers starts by creating a first-class career journey for our colleagues and we are committed to building inclusive environments in which our people can thrive. You’ll also have access to some great benefits including:

• Bonus scheme
• 11% company contribution pension
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Free parking
• Subsidised public transport
• Huge range of company discounts
• Free Virtual GP service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Care Concierge service
• Two volunteering days per year

The role

As a Solution Architect in our MAG Technology team, you’ll be charged with helping us to transform our business through technology, digital and automation. Working across our airports and group functions, you will define Digital Workplace technology solutions to meet requirements, taking into account systems, data, process and people. Ensuring that designs are aligned to the overarching technology end state strategies (or challenging them if you see fit!), you’ll work hand in hand with business analysts, project managers, development teams (both internal and external) and the business stakeholders directly to ensure that solutions will meet desired business outcomes, and add value to MAG. You’ll be helping to develop and maintain a suite of capabilities that delivers greater productivity by enabling collaboration, communication, integration and a positive user experience whilst maintaining security, compliance and governance and driving efficiencies across our group.  There will also be a requirement to apply your skills across a Group wide Health and Safety Programme, enabling optimised processes to be managed through the use of effective technology solutions. You’ll have a hand in delivery end to end, from inception and shaping, right through to post go live support.

What will make you successful in the role?

As well as the ability to interact, influence and build consensus with senior stakeholders, you’ll have excellent interpersonal, networking, presentation and communication skills and be commercially astute. You’ll also have a detailed technical knowledge spanning enterprise technologies, systems and infrastructure, private and public cloud, development and DevOps toolsets with experience building and executing an IT strategy, maintaining a technology roadmap and being able to adapt to business, market and technical change. You will be able to demonstrate previous experience in a customer facing role providing the solution design and implementation of core technologies including Microsoft Office 365 modern workplace applications such as SharePoint and Teams and Power Apps.  You’ll have experience of developing, mapping and maintaining a technical architecture including enterprise, applications, service, infrastructure and data using a recognised methodology e.g. TOGAF. You’ll have experience communicating complex technical information and informing the priority of spend, based on technical input and related risk vs. conflicting business priority. You’ll be able to provide architecture expertise & guidance to the Heads-of-technology, advising on possible solution sets and opportunities to increase capability.

Desirable skills include an understanding of the Airport / Aviation Tech landscape; knowledge of the processes, applications, technology and data requirements, major trends and complexities of such a business. Experience of airport development and construction projects and experience of Enterprise Asset Management systems / IoT / Smart Infrastructure and be TOGAF certified, or equivalent.