Solution Architect

Job Description

Solution Architect

Purpose -

• Designs application products to meet user needs and align with Client strategy and standards.
• Provides a consistent set of application product architecture views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders.
• Solution communication champion, making the complex simple to understand.
• Supporting delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (leadership and communication) skills.

Top 3 responsibilities, as stated by Client:

• Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
• Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high-risk issues, or delivering architecture design.
• Ensure that architecture design artefacts are produced to agreed quality standards and timescales and presented effectively at governance forums.

Broader responsibilities, as stated by Client:

• To design and represent architecture solutions
• Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of projects/initiatives
• Build relationships and work collaboratively with other Digital professionals
• Create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases, to drive decision making on best solution design
• Make technology choice proposals for Products
• Create high-level solution architecture documentation and architecture design artefacts for governance, including all relevant SME input.
• To ensure compliance of design with approved design in the Digital Blueprint
• Ensure technical quality and adherence of Product designs to the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps
• Engage with Domain and Lead Solution Architects and engineers to implement solutions according to agreed and approved designs
• Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt
• To maintain Product roadmaps and help maintain the Digital Blueprint
• Be accountable for product architecture, contribute to product roadmaps, in alignment with engineering
• Identify, capture, iterate and implement architecture patterns
• To contribute to, and build capability in, the Architecture community
• Sharing best practice and reference architectures
• Participate/Support development of the Architecture Community of Practice

Skills:

• Significant Architecture experience
• Analytics & Reporting: Data warehousing, data lakes, Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice.
• Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.
• Architecture design informed through the use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards.
• AWS Solution expertise and relevant certification - EMR/Spark (Hadoop)/AWS/Data Modelling-Mapping/GitHub/GitLab

Technologies:

• Azure
• AWS
• Power BI