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Business Architect // Enterprise Architect // Housing Management System // £550-700/day (OUTSIDE IR25) // initial 3-6 months We are supporting a large UK housing organisation undertaking a critical review of its Housing Management Systems (HMS) landscape. An experienced Business Architect is required to provide strategic insight, options analysis, and clear recommendations to inform future HMS investment and delivery decisions. This role sits at the intersection of housing operations, technology, and strategic change. You will work closely with housing leadership, IT, and operational teams to assess current systems, evaluate future options, and shape a pragmatic, business-led roadmap. Key Responsibilities Housing Management System (HMS) Expertise • Bring deep, hands-on experience of housing management systems covering tenancy, rents, repairs, assets, and compliance, • Analyse end-to-end housing processes underpinned by HMS platforms, • Review system configuration, customisation, and data quality, • Review existing HMS architecture and surrounding application landscape, • Analyse integrations with finance, CRM, mobile solutions, and BI platforms, • Identify duplication, manual workarounds, and legacy system constraints, • Evaluate existing internal systems and modules for reuse or consolidation, • Compare market-available HMS solutions against business needs and sector best practice, • Apply strong understanding of SaaS-based HMS platforms, data models, and integration patterns, • Produce clear, compelling business cases for HMS-related investment, • Develop options analysis (retain, enhance, or replace existing platforms), • Quantify financial savings, service improvements, and risk reduction, • Work confidently with housing executives, IT leaders, and service heads, • Translate complex HMS and technical concepts into clear business impacts, • Facilitate HMS discovery and assessment workshops with operational teams, • Demonstrate understanding of HMS data migration, transition risks, and cutover approaches, • Recognise user adoption, training, and organisational change impacts, • Proven experience as a Business Architect or senior housing systems specialist, • Strong background in housing management systems within a social housing or local authority environment, • Comfortable operating at both strategic and detailed levels

The Data Architect will play a pivotal role in the selection of best-fit tooling/platforms to support strategic objectives. You will provide the foundations for usability including definition of design types and patterns, reusability and lifecycle management for the domain as relevant, to provide secure, reliable and scalable solutions within the data domain. In addition, you will support delivery teams by providing target architecture blueprints and transition architecture to support delivery of a prioritised roadmap. These will be based on a strong understanding of the landscape, including the necessary infrastructure required and the applications/platforms utilised to meet business capabilities. You will take a proactive approach in understanding industry trends and technology developments to inform your architectural decisions, ensuring that selected solutions promote future innovation. Accountabilities • Accountable for ensuring full adherence to all policies and standards., • Accountable for regular completion of audit activities (internal and external)., • Accountable for ensuring knowledge and understanding purpose, values, objectives, and commitments., • Support the interpretation and contextualisation of business strategy and the translation of such strategy into a suite of capabilities., • Collaborate in the IT strategic planning process by providing input to the scope definition of initiatives, leveraging capabilities, creating capability Heatmaps to provide visibility of impacts, dependencies, overlaps and opportunities for technology solutions, to ensure the appropriate investment is secured for any technology changes and that we have the initiatives scoped to take us to the target state., • Provide strategic technical direction across various teams to ensure proposed solutions align with information technology infrastructure, business, and security architectures., • Work across partner organisations to bring market insight and innovation into the technology strategy and ways of working., • Anticipate emerging business trends and regulatory/risk issues as a basis for recommending product, technical, functional or process improvements., • Play a leading role in supporting and developing the Architecture Practice, including participating in Communities of Practice with fellow Enterprise Architects and sharing best practice., • Reduce IT spend and eliminate redundancy by supporting with application consolidation and rationalisation, to then be able to reinvest funds such as in emerging technologies, currently including AI, Machine Learning, Big Data and Cloud initiatives., • Provide technical recommendations and guidance for developing and delivering technology stacks, APIs, governing AI, etc., as well as promoting DevOps practices., • Create and maintain personal contacts with cross-functional Teams using various methods such as attending workshops and system demos, as well as participating in Quarterly Planning to provide as much value as is possible., • Lead SME role in procurement events, supporting the development of technical requirements and questions, evaluating and scoring responses and supporting the contract discussions post award., • Help to realise the architectural vision within the domain, which in turn allows for the Delivery Teams to design, implement, test, and deliver value ensuring built-in quality, whilst ensuring designed solutions continue to align with the broader technical vision., • Create and maintain Data Strategy based on business needs, industry trends and the domain., • Formally establish a Data Governance Framework that clearly defines accountability across the data lifecycle, including classification and storing., • Develop and apply Data-specific Policies and Standards, including addressing data quality, ethical use, access control, security and risk management., • Review and keep current our Data Principles., • Validate our as-is architecture, define our target state and transitional architecture to understand gaps and how the technology roadmap will support reaching the desired target state., • Foster automation and innovation when designing solutions, which in turn result in positive business value and impact., • Define and communicate the architectural roadmap for the domain, ensuring business needs are constantly met and investments are used in the right areas., • Act as a technical authority for Data, including recommending solution options and ensuring designs meet standards defined., • Participate in associated technical design reviews and creation of technical designs where responsible for the domain, i.e. physical and logical data modelling., • Ensure we follow a consistent approach and utilise a catalogue of reusable design patterns wherever possible, working with System Architects/Technical Specialists to help reuse code and existing design patterns to implement technology functionality and new business functionality., • Work alongside the Data Teams to determine technology direction, selecting appropriate technologies to implement ethical and secure data solutions. Qualifications, Technical Skills, Leadership Skills Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Business, Engineering) desirable., • Relevant IT/architectural professional certifications, e.g. ITIL, Lakehouse and/or TOGAF mandatory., • Broader technology professional certifications, e.g. SAP, AWS and/or Microsoft Certified., • Holds one or more advanced data professional certifications, e.g. Certified Data Professional (CDP), Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), AWS Certified Data Engineer. Practical Experience • Strong experience in IT at a senior technical level and experience of working with an ITIL disciplined environment., • Experienced in working within an architecture practice with an appreciation for the whole solution lifecycle to improve customer experience., • Deep technical knowledge “Proficient” to “Expert” level across a broad technology landscape, included but not limited to Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and AI., • Experience and understanding with different delivery methods and tools including Waterfall, Agile, KANBAN, and JIRA., • Understanding of market trends and industry best practice with a commitment to continuous learning and staying updated on industry advancements., • Excellent communication skills at all levels, with the ability to translate complex IT issues into business related vocabulary., • Demonstrable experience of defining and maintaining an enterprise-wide view of Data architecture, including data models, data dictionaries, as-is architecture, target state architecture and an architecture roadmap., • Extensive enterprise experience working cross-functionally to understand business problems and strategic objectives to develop architecture to shape the IT portfolio investment priorities and therefore the associated roadmap for delivery., • Strong understanding of regulatory reporting and advanced analytics.

Role: Infrastructure Architect Job Type: Permanent Location: Coventry Ready to take the next step in your career? Join us as a Infrastructure Architect. Careers at TCS: It means more TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We don’t just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more opportunities to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation. • Work with some of the brightest global minds in the industry., • Collaborate with highly important stakeholders., • Lead and influence some of the brightest global minds in the industry. The Role As an infrastructure architect, you need to have a balanced set of skills. The skills you possess will not only shape your professional career but also impact the success of the organizations you work for. Requires technical skills and soft skills that will make you an effective infrastructure architect. Possess the technical skills required to design, plan, and manage infrastructure projects. Your Profile Key skills/knowledge: • Networking: you should be well-versed in networking technologies and protocols such as TCP/IP, VPN, VLAN, DNS, and DHCP., • Storage: you should have expert knowledge of storage protocols, architecture, and technologies such as SAN, NAS, RAID, and cloud storage., • Virtualization and Cloud Computing: you should have a solid understanding of virtualization technologies and cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform., • Operating Systems: you should have a strong grasp of different operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Unix, and macOS., • Security: you should have knowledge of cybersecurity threats and measures to prevent them, such as firewalls, intrusion detection, and prevention systems., • Moreover, you should have experience in the following technologies:, • Middleware and Application Servers: you should have a good understanding of application servers and middleware such as JBoss, WebSphere, and Tomcat., • Web Servers and Load Balancers: you should have experience with web servers such as Apache and Nginx, as well as load balancers such as F5 and HAProxy., • Automation Tools: you should be having fair amount of knowledge on how and when to use these automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef., • Artificial intelligence – Must have : Fair Knowledge on technologies used in developing AI solution Key Responsibilities • Some of your key roles and responsibilities as an Infrastructure Architect include:, • Designing and implementing IT infrastructure solutions that meet the organization’s business needs, • Ensuring the stability, security, and scalability of the organization’s IT infrastructure, • Developing and maintaining IT infrastructure policies and procedures, • Collaborating with other IT professionals, such as Application teams and network engineers, to ensure the integration of IT infrastructure solutions, • Providing technical support and guidance to extended IT teams both within and outside organization, • Designing and implementing physical and virtual server infrastructures, • Developing disaster recovery plans for IT infrastructure systems, • Implementing and maintaining cloud-based solutions, such as Private cloud, AWS or Azure, • Ability to convey the solution and seek approvals from customer’s technical design authority and other stakeholders, • Designing and implementing network infrastructure solutions, such as firewalls and VPNs, • Ensuring compliance with industry standards and security policies as defined by the organization, • Fair amount of knowledge on Legacy tools, Operating systems and approach for mitigating them, • Ability to understand, comprehend and visualize the data for effective solutioning, • Derive and deliver Legacy OS and Tools remediation approach, in line with application roadmap and environment’s roadmap, • Document the HLD, LLD and process flow from scratch for the solution being proposed, • Ability to understand the cost implications and effort calculation for the proposed solution, • Provide a rough estimation for the solution being proposed and how different it is from other solutions, • Knowledge on Artificial Intelligence and drive the AI technical team in developing use cases and test cases Rewards & Benefits TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network. Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing At TCS, we believe in building and sustaining a culture of equity and belonging where everyone can thrive. Our diversity motto is ‘Inclusion without Exception’. You’ll find a welcoming culture and many internal volunteering and social networks to join. Our diversity, inclusion and social activities include LGBTQ+ and mental health networks, as well as health and wellness initiatives and sports events (we even sponsor the London Marathon). TCS celebrates inclusion without exception. We are open to all and treat applications equally, regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation or beliefs. 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