Solution Architect

Role: Technology Architecture Specialist – CL9

Locations: Manchester (must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis)

Level: Specialist

Salary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history at the point of application.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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As a Technology Architecture Specialist, you will:

• Recognize that architecture descriptions are sliced into high-level views to address the separate concerns of different stakeholders

• Recognize the phases of an architecture process framework that helps architects to describe a baseline architecture, a target architecture and the transformation between them

• Recognize ways to describe the structure and behavior of applications used in a business, with a focus on how they interact with each other and with business users or actors

• Understand Microservices and Serverless architectures. Understand differences between HTTPs, SOAP, TCP, etc. Recognize a selection of common techniques used in design for NFRs

• Be able to describe the structure and behavior of the technology platform that underpins user applications and understand on-premises, Cloud hosting and end-user compute

• Plan architecture migration, alongside managers using standard management planning processes.

• Plan architecture migration, alongside managers using standard management planning processes

• Use decision logs, risk register, dependency management, etc. to govern the implementation of an architecture Prepare and present architecture decisions to internal or client forums.

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