Solutions Architect
- Produces (or ensures production of) all Architectural deliverables under our development methodology.
- Identify all areas of risk, including Architectural, Technical and Security, and manage with the cooperation of the appropriate Stakeholders, defining appropriate work to address these or escalating as necessary
- Ensures that the Architecture, any Divergences and Risks are both clearly communicated and agreed by all Stakeholders
- Provides Technical Leadership to other solution architects.
- Provides Design Assurance for Solution Architecture to ensure they are implemented as designed, and to the correct standards and quality.
Skills & Experience:
- Experience in defining, documenting, and architecting solutions across a hybrid and on-premise cloud estate, potentially requiring integration with Legacy technologies and products for large projects/programmes
- Experience in providing architectural support and assurance to the DevOps team and an application of Agile practices would be advantageous.
- Experience with Technical Selection and RFI/RFP processes and undertaking supplier assurance of third-party products.
- Experience leading architectural design authorities for projects and working within Enterprise Architectural Governance and Enterprise Portfolio Management frameworks.
- Stakeholder management and the ability to influence at varying levels (eg C-Suite, Developers, Testers, Project Managers, etc)
- Ability to convey architectural decisions through the use of a variety of communication techniques to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Broad knowledge of IT technologies and architectural styles/patterns (eg Event Driven, Serverless, Microservices Architectures as well as SOA, layered).
- Applied Knowledge of the Open Agile Framework (Open.org) would be desirable but not necessary.