Senior Solution Architect

Senior Solution Architect       

Profile 

The Senior Solution Architect works reports to the Head of Enterprise Architecture and works with Infrastructure, Security, Data Architecture, and Data & Analytics Teams to enforce an architecture strategy for an optimized long term blueprint of services on the cloud. The Solution Architect works with the development teams and customers to ensure the blueprint is in support of overall reference architecture.  

Key Responsibilities 

Key member of the Architecture Review Board consulting Delivery Teams on design to ensure proper documentation is produced and Enterprise and Security Architecture is to adhered to.  

Identifies and translates business and technical requirements into an architecture blueprint to achieve business objectives. 

Identifies and documents repeatable architecture patterns and best practices between Architecture, Engineering, and Operations teams. 

Works with development teams to design and implement solutions on Azure that fit into the long-term architecture strategy. 

Keeps abreast of emerging cloud technologies and evaluates vendor offerings to determine the best fit for business needs.  

Facilitates sessions to define requirements on POCs to ensure emerging technologies fit into the overall enterprise strategy– ability to research new emerging technologies, gather requirements, and work with various infrastructure and business groups to facilitate solution architecture sessions.  

Proposes cloud solutions based on business and technology considerations, and suitable alternatives to satisfy customer needs. 

Proposes application integration strategy. 

Performs evaluations of enterprise cloud technology standards, tools, products and solutions to identify opportunities for improvement. 

Simplify the existing data architecture, delivering reusable services and cost saving opportunities in line with the policies and standards of the group. 

Skills 

Strong technical diagraming skills   

Strong influence skills and communication skills 

Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences 

Ability to build collaborative working relationships with various internal and external stakeholders 

Strong analytical ability and data-driven mindset 

Ability to rapidly acquire new knowledge and skills 

Familiarity with service design and pricing in the context of cloud-based solutions 

Working knowledge of cloud management platforms 

Experience 

Architecture Review Board experience 

Experience deploying and operating on a public cloud framework 

Experience with cloud deployment, technical and security architecture, data architecture, virtualization, software design, software development, IP networking, Linux, Agile development, Scrum, application lifecycle management, .NET, programming languages, technical solution architecture, SOA, Windows, Azure 

Experience working with multiple teams to identify patterns and conceptual requirements for deployment of new tools   

Experience with various architecture types(Big compute, microservices, N-Tier) 

Microservice, APIM, ESB, Event Driven Architecture understanding 

TOGAF or similar Architecture framework understanding 

Education Requirements 

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.