Solution Architect Specialist

Job Description

Recruiter: Nishita Jena

Hiring Manager: Aparna Debnath

Career Grade: D

About the role

The Solution Architect Specialist independently executes a range of workstreams in delivering the overall solution architecture design and mapping of business requirements. Organises smooth project delivery, empowering the implementation of functional solutions that are fit for purpose and delivered against stated business requirements.

What you’ll be doing

• Creates and implements technical solutions for a domain or cross domains / portfolios of work within a specific technology area autonomously, understanding how solutions impact systems internally and/or externally and assessing impact of change.
• Provides technical quality assurance over work of other engineers through matrix team structure.
• Provides sound technical expertise to consult on significant component(s) of a technical solution within a specific domain or cross domain.
• Identifies opportunities to improve standards of practice within a project, continuously enhancing ways of working.
• Delivers resolutions to problems that tend to be complex, cross-domain or of high impact to customers.

More specifically with Broadband

• Decide upon the E2E technical solution
• Decide on the individual components that are going to form the solution
• Decide on component integration
• Decide how to meet the relevant architectural policies
• Decide how to meet regulatory, legal and contractual constraints
• Determine how the solution will comply with the relevant security policies
• Determine the right solution approach to deliver the expected benefits both to BT and the customer outcome

The skills you’ll need

• Taught your team how to do their roles more effectively

• Aligned project plans and objectives with BT strategy and values

• Made decisions in ambiguous situations using incomplete information or differing opinions (e.g. divided team loyalties or unclear deliverables).

• Actively participated in strategy setting sessions

• To suit the needs of a customer, colleague or client; moved outside of expected process or practice

Mandatory:

• Demonstrable experience of programming or design

• Experience of working in and leading a cross-functional teams
Preferred:

• Knowledge of OSS / BSS either as component designer or solution designer or tester

• Experience of OSS / BSS delivery cycle

• Broadband Product knowledge

• Understanding of the e2e stack supporting the domain/product area across
L2C, T2R & P&B

• Experience and understanding of TM Forum ODF (Open Digital Framework) and TMForum Open APIs

BT Group’s Behaviours

Customer First - Prioritize customer needs in every decision and action.
Challengers - Challenge the status quo and bring innovative ideas to life.
Committed - Own outcomes and deliver with integrity.
Clear - Communicate openly and simply, ensuring alignment.
Connected - Collaborate across teams to achieve shared goals.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.