Enterprise Solutions Architect

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.

Person specification:

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).