Job Description
What's this role about
Responsibilities
The Solution Architect is accountable for understanding the business need and translating into technology solutions that are designed and built in accordance with IT Delivery policies and standards. Key responsibilities are:
- Working closely with the technology tribe, designing solutions that cross technical, product and application boundaries, ensuring that changes are designed, developed and delivered in compliance with policies and standards
- Is a point of contact for resolving any architectural issues
- Acts as an SME for technical changes in order to provide estimates for new initiatives or product enhancements
- Owns, creates and maintains Solution Design documentation and seeks relevant sign off
- Contributes to Design standards and patterns, and forms part of the governing body of EADA
- Supports Projects and Product Enhancements throughout the development and delivery lifecycle
- Assists in Incident/Problem management, Root Cause Analysis and definition of solutions
Works closely with the engineering team(s) encouraging continuous improvement in the development, build, test and maintenance of the system
Core Skills
The following outlines the skills and experience required:
- Demonstrable experience (ideally 5 years+) working as a Solution Architect using a range of different technologies (ideally including Java/Spring, .NET, JavaScript, micro services, containers, databases, cloud technologies)
- Demonstrable expertise in the use of appropriate tools/technologies for the design, development, build, testing & deployment of a wide range of applications
- Confident communicator - able to present complex technical issues in a clear manner to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience of Agile Methodology (ideally SAFe)
- Multi-task and prioritise across a number of projects and initiatives.
- Work independently and collaborate effectively across the organization.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment
- Self-motivated, goal-oriented individual with the ability to take ownership of the task assigned
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Desired Skills
- Financial Services experience is desirable but not essential
- Experience of multiple architecture frameworks
- Experience in both Waterfall and Agile Delivery models and working within the teams
- Experience of multiple cloud technologies
Regulatory Responsibilities
You are required to understand and comply with all relevant rules, regulation and legislation applicable to your role. This means:
- acting with integrity and due skill, care and diligence at all times
- ensuring that customers are treated fairly at all times
- ensuring that communications via any medium meet the principle of clear, fair and not misleading
- undertaking relevant internally arranged training on systems, processes and regulatory requirements relevant to your role
- identifying and escalating (through your line manager) risks that impact the business, customers or other third parties
- reporting (through your line manager) any issues and/or system/process failures that may impact on service to customers
