Your new company
Are you a Solutions Architect looking for your next challenge? My client is on the lookout for a talented individual to join their team.
Your new role
Interpret Business Needs
* Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
* Works closely with the product owners and systems owners to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle.
* Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organisation's targeted business outcomes.
Assess Technology
* Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through ageing of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
* Monitors micro- and macroscopic trends in EA as well as global currents, including economic, political, social/cultural, environmental, regulatory/legal and/or technological disruptions for effective decision-making.
* Supports product owners and systems owners in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information.
* Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models (stretch).
* Analyses the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution (stretch).
* Analyses the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and also recommends solutions for improvement.
* Facilitates the evaluation, selection and TCO of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
* Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions' architecture.
Apply Technology
* Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions' architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards. This includes the strong focus on integrations (as-is and to-be designs and roadmaps).
* Works closely with the Enterprise Architect to develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the broader solutions roadmap.
* Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
* Creates architectural designs, standards and patterns to guide and contextualise solution development across products, services, projects and systems, including applications, integrations, technologies, processes and information.
* Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product life cycle.
* Provides consulting support to project or BAU teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.
Provide Enterprise Guidance
* Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.
* Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping teams, product owners / system owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
* Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance (stretch).
* Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
What you'll need to succeed
* Knowledge of various backend development languages.
* Good understanding of various database technologies, like MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle.
* Skilled in various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
* Sound knowledge of relevant enterprise, cloud or customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
* Knowledge of various artificial intelligence/machine learning frameworks (AI/ML) (stretch).
* Data savvy with knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like integration, network and security.
* Good understanding of information principles and processes.
* Knowledge of financial models and budgeting (mention relevant skills for calculating TCO, applying Finops principles, if applicable).
* Proven analytical, planning, organisational and technical skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
What you need to do now
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