Solution Architect -2557

Position Title: Solution Architect – data
The purpose of the solution Architect role is to:

• Develop end to end solution architecture for the project meeting business requirements.
• Identify impact to the system for the proposed changes and work with various stakeholders in quantify and qualifying the impact
• To identify the technical debt – application and infrastructure in the landscape
• Create framework to evaluate and prioritize technical debt items.
• Develop roadmaps in conjunction with the Enterprise Architect and business to remediate technical debt.
• Support cost estimation and execution of the tech debt remediation
• Deliver solutions that progress the overall architecture journey and are aligned to IT Strategy
• Comply with standards, design approaches and governance. Accountabilities Nature of Work
• Solutions and Assurance
o Create solutions and design for projects to meet standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience, and performance
o Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions
o Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree tradeoffs between, long-term and short-term goals
o Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state
o Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes
o Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
o Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases
o Identify potential risks and challenges associated with proposed solutions.
o Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.
o Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs
• Technical Leadership
o Keep up with technological developments in the digital, integration area and evaluate how well they fit into the company’s architecture.
o Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of solutions.
o Support defining the architecture best practices and standards and enforcing them in the project solutions.
o Conduct architecture reviews to ensure compliance with established guidelines
o Ensure design artefacts are produced to support stakeholder group for service, security, architecture, and engineering
o Peer reviews the design artefacts of others
o Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to less experienced team members as required
• Design Community membership
o Contribute to the Solution Architecture community across Group leading on or participating in initiatives to improve approach to design
o Develop your technical skills to support need to understand and exploit emerging technology trends
Risk & Controls
• Identify, own, and manage the specific key risks and/or IT controls and BP standards that you are identified as the owner and/or nominee for on iCARE or Archer
o Ensure that issues and actions associated to controls / risks are remediated in a timely manner
o Maintain appropriate records on iCARE or Archer
o Ensure that controls are sufficiently well designed and operating effectively to keep the risks that they mitigate within tolerance level
• Report and escalate the status of the relevant risks, controls, and standards as appropriate Resource Complexity
• Accountable for working within policy and guidelines, applying technical knowledge and expertise, and prioritizing own use of time Problem Solving
o The essence of the role is project- based problem solving.
o Accountable for solving problems and dealing with difficulties in line with policy, process and other guidelines applying technical knowledge and expertise
o Depending on the nature of the specific role, problems can range from repetitive daily issues to complex technical problems requiring significant expertise
o Escalate problems according to guidelines
Change
o Recommend design solutions or ideas in response to challenges faced by your project or feature team in line with policy, process, and other guidelines.
o Accountable for recommending change based on expert know how and analysis
o Take personal initiative in adapting to change
Internal collaboration
• Build effective working relationships with:
o Project managers and others on projects
o Platform Managers and Specialist
o Platform Architects and Designers External interaction
• Maintain liaison with suppliers and the relevant sources of technology to ensure the specialist knowledge is kept up to date.

Capabilities
• Proven experience in solution architecture, roadmaps and architecture design and implementation.
• Knowledge of wider application technologies stack, and Infrastructure knowledge
• Knowledge of cloud native and modern application architecture
• Experience in building roadmap with interim state.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end project lifecycle methodologies (agile).
• Financial acumen to support development of business cases and to inform key design decisions.
• Ability to balance long-term direction and necessary short-term goals.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to provide technical guidance to peers and project
colleagues.
• Strong personal impact and influence
• Good stakeholder and relationship management
• Leadership skills