Publicis Media helps clients drive sustainable business growth by harnessing the modern media landscape to drive one-to-one consumer connections at scale. Led by Sue Frogley, CEO, Publicis Media UK is made up of 2000 people working across market-leading media agencies including Zenith, Starcom and Spark Foundry as well as specialist practices Publicis Media Exchange (PMX), Performics, Publicis Sport & Entertainment, Publicis Media Content and NextTECHnow. Together they combine deep expertise in media investment, strategy, insights and analytics, data and technology, commerce, performance marketing and content. Publicis Media is part of Publicis Groupe and is present in more than 100 countries with over 23,500 employees worldwide.

The Solution Architect is a multi-faceted role working to define business requirements and using data, application and infrastructure to design, build and implement scalable solutions within the agreed timescales and budgets.

Using your existing knowledge, you will be a highly experienced solution architect, able to gather detailed requirements from users, produce functional requirements documentation, whilst working with developers, testers, UX developers and project managers to realise a solution in line with requirements. Re-engineering business processes is also highly desirable.

If you enjoy being in a hands-on role,  you will be given the opportunity to carry out requirements workshops, work closely with users, detail technical requirements, review test scripts and assist with functional and user acceptance testing and to train users.

You will be able to manage users at all levels, ensure expectations are realistic and help to identify, understand and implement steps to mitigate risks to projects and find the right balance between the ideal world and the real business needs.

The following skills are must have for this role:

•         Strong experience in an analyst developer role with a focus on web based, data driven and/or BI applications

•         Working with end users and stakeholders to accurately capture requirements and manage expectations

•         Strong experience in developing complex solutions from inception to delivery

•         Strong skills in clarifying and documenting functional requirement specifications

•         Strong understanding of data extraction and ingestion, cleansing, harmonisation and governance

•         Experience in liaising with developers, web designers, project managers and testers, including both in-house and offshore resources, to ensure everyone has a clear understanding of the requirements

•         Good experience in reviewing test scripts to validate they correctly reflect the required application functionality and performance criteria

•         Good understanding of SQL databases, design and ability to write SQL queries

Publicis Media is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and therefore strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups.  We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of their background.

If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you.