Solutions Architect

About the Role

Collaborating with Product Owners, Platform Leads, Enterprise Architects & Engineers to create the Architectural runway for our Platform teams. Once baselined, our Solution Architects continuously invest in maintaining the Architecture runway underpinning our Platform teams. Partner with Enterprise Architecture & service providers to elaborate on solutions, their interfaces and validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives and software lifecycle risks, assumptions, issues & dependencies. Providing analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using relevant architectural building blocks as well as producing designs for features that enable frequent incremental customer value delivery. Promoting adaptive design practises to drive collaboration across Platform teams centring on a common vision with continuous feedback. Owning the technical design risks or issues and driving resolution through architectural or agile practises. Participating in Agile ceremonies, elicit requirements, shape & validate designs or prototypes that deliver customer outcomes that align to our target architecture. Leveraging industry best practise, frameworks, standards & policies in creating opportunities & value for our customers. Contributing to the financial investment process to obtain funding for key solution opportunities. Setting guiding principles and solution success criteria for platform capability or feature development across our Platforms. Providing oversight & foster built in quality, decoupled & modernised architectures. Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads in identifying, articulating and impact assessing software & infrastructure currency risks or issues, offering options & recommendations on action planning & continuously evergreening solutions / systems within the Platform. Supporting Product Owners & Platform Leads on the technical aspect of activities linked with Platform financial estimation, spend or risk management processes in line with the platform roadmap. As a Senior Solution Architect, you will also hold overall responsibility for leading and directing a diverse workforce to achieve the business strategy, Inspiring people, achieving their full commitment to do the extraordinary.

Responsibilities

• Are experienced working in multi-disciplinary product, feature or platform teams.
• Are excited at the prospect of changing culture by inspiring change through new insights with teams or like-minded people, encouraging each other to find the right technology solutions.
• Have experiences in systems engineering or solution architecture with appreciation of software development processes such as Behaviour Driven Development & Test Driven Development.
• Enjoy communicating & influencing audiences with little or no technical knowledge while aligning recommendations to organisational strategy & imperatives.
• Worked with collaborators to influence their thinking about what is possible through technology innovation.
• Have understanding & experiences in applying different project, architecture, life cycling and risk management methods to bring in customer value.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of solution & software architecture patterns.
• Have experience in defining and / or operating environments embracing Agile Architecture, Emergent & Intentional architecture techniques.
• Experience of systems or solutions development, change lifecycle, release management at web-scale.
• Experience in partnering & collaborating with Enterprise, Security, Data & Infrastructure architects to create customer value or tackle business problems.
• Proficient & demonstrable experience in leading activities associated to Architectural Governance, Risk Management or Compliance processes.
• Familiarity of Architectural Frameworks such as TOGAF, Archimate, Cloud Architectures or similar.
• Have an ability to understand how and where third party products could be deployed, including solid understanding of vendor evaluation and selection processes & best practises.
• Prior experience in Mobile native, Cross platform / Hybrid App, API Gateway Management and microservices domain.

Qualifications

Any bachelor's degree

Required Skills

Mobile native, Cross platform / Hybrid App, API Gateway Management and microservices domain.

Pay range and compensation package

Best in the market