Job Description
The Role
The core of the role is owning the design of application-level solutions, translating business requirements into concrete, implementable architectures
Responsibilities will include:
- Work on enterprise-scale programmes focused on digital and cloud transformation and including greenfield development, applications re-engineering and integration.
- Document existing and proposed architecture for various transformation projects.
- Liaise effectively with global, diverse, cross-functional teams.
Skills and experience:
- Proven experience operating as a Solution Architect with hands-on responsibility for application-level solution design, including system boundaries, integrations, and architectural decision-making
- Strong understanding of architectural concepts, methodologies, and approaches.
- Previous exposure to azure cloud technologies - IAAS, PAAS, SAAS.
- Experience applying architectural patterns and modelling approaches appropriately, with the ability to explain design choices and trade-offs. Any exposure to ArchiMate and BizzDesign advantageous.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of technical architecture roles across all phases of the development life cycle.
- Outstanding stakeholder management, client facing and communications skills.
- Strong ability to clearly and concisely explain architectural decisions and reasoning to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to lead and own solution architecture decisions, balancing trade-offs across cost, complexity, risk, and delivery constraints.
- Track record of design and delivery of large-scale, complex integrated IT solutions.
- Where relevant, experience incorporating AI or data-driven components into solution architectures, with appropriate consideration for governance and risk
This will include the competencies
- Stakeholder engagement: Cultivates and maintains positive relationships with relevant internal or external stakeholders, effectively involving and communicating with them to drive collaboration, support, and alignment towards shared goals.
- Collaboration and teamwork: Works effectively with team, project or other work groups or those outside formal line of authority to accomplish goals. Actively participates as a member of a team; develops and builds cohesive team relations to produce required outputs; possesses knowledge and understanding of colleagues work.
- Adapting to change: Adjusts thoughts, feelings, and behaviours to handle new, challenging, or complex situations; embracing change as a growth opportunity when working within new work structures, processes, regulations, or requirements.
- Continuous Improvement: Analyses current and future state business requirements and identify strategies to continuously improve products, services or processes. Guide and inspire others to achieve results to enhance efficiency, quality and consistency.
- Innovation: Creates, develops and implements new ideas to enhance new or improved processes, systems, solutions, products or services; tries different and novel ways to deal with problems and opportunities.
- Resilience: The ability to cope with and recover from setbacks, challenges or difficulty. Persevering even under pressure or crisis situations and uses ways that foster strength and growth, often emerging stronger than before.
- Future Focused: Anticipates changes in regulations, technology and client needs, proactively responding to key trends happening in the industry. Thinks about the future through identifying opportunities and obstacles whilst planning effectively.
