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 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 solve problems for our business including working out how to digitize our passenger journey, improve aircraft turnaround times, optimize colleague experiences and drive efficiencies across our group. 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 a successful SA?
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’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 IT 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.
What can we offer in return?
Great benefits as you would expect from a business the size of MAG – in the shape of a competitive salary, bonus scheme and benefits package including 11% company contribution pension, 25 days holidays plus bank holidays, free parking, subsidised public transport, and a huge range of company discounts.
Equal Opportunities & Reasonable Adjustments
At MAG we believe in the importance of diversity & inclusion for all. We are committed to creating a workforce that is reflective of our society. As such welcome applications from candidates from all diverse backgrounds.
MAG is a Disability confident employer and therefore are committed to creating an environment where candidates and employees can perform at their optimum. Please let us know if we can provide you with any reasonable adjustments to aid your application or interview process.
