Enterprise Solutions Architect

Job Purpose

Design and develop software systems and applications, being responsible for high-level decision-making in the development process, deciding on the design, technical measures, platforms, or programming standards used in projects considering obsolescence and security for technology.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Curate strong relationships with business colleagues, understand business strategy and goals. Make recommendations to support delivery of business outcomes.
• Produce high quality solution designs and proposals for software / infrastructure to meet business needs.
• Identify project stakeholders and desired outcomes, analysing operational and non-functional requirements (performance, availability, scalability, obsolescence, security, etc.).
• Propose system architectures and components which comply with EA direction and design principles.
• Ensure strong focus on information security and that all proposed solutions are secure by design.
• Select the technologies for implementing each component and interoperability across the solution.
• Monitor the architecture and vendor roadmaps after system implementation, proposing updates when appropriate to ensure ongoing reliability, value for money and security.
• Ensure all design / architecture documentation produced is of a good standard, regularly updated and stored in the Architecture Repository.
• Always promote a culture of finding the best way to perform different team tasks
• Keep abreast of developments in technology, vendor roadmaps and industry trends.
• Work with Compliance with all relevant regulations and quality standards.
• Build constructive relationships with IT colleagues such as Solutions, InfoSec and Infrastructure and collaborate on new designs to help ensure good technical fit.
• Knowledge of Architecture frameworks and tools such as TOGAF or Archimate.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels, knowledge not only in theory also know how to do it.
• Be a sponsor of technical documentation across IT and lead design and presentations of HLD&LLD.

Formal Education & Certification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or similar.

Knowledge & Experience

• IT Infrastructure, software and data
• Architecture frameworks, modelling and methodology.
• SDLC, Devops
• Expertise in Azure(other clouds is a plus)
• Service Management Process and Methodology (ITIL).
• Ticketing tools (Jira).
• Advanced English (C1).

Experience and adaptation

• Previous experience in a similar role: More than 8 years
• Previous experience in the sector: Not required (Desirable)
• Adaptation time to the role: 6 months to 1 year