Job Description
Role: Enterprise solution architect
Location: London UK
Purpose:
The Solution Architect role is a leadership position which include the following aspects: -
* Own the relationship between Enterprise Architecture and delivery, communicating in both directions:
* Informing the EA roadmap to make it fit for purpose and achievable
* Explaining how to implement it
* Take responsibility for specific components within the ecosystem.
* Hold and communicate the vision for how they will evolve to reach the target architectural state, reducing technical debt and stay in support.
* Produce solution options and technical designs for projects, consulting with scrums to ensure the designs are understood and viable.
* Play a hands-on technical role when required.
* Identify and proactively manage risks relating to the as is and to be technologies in the ecosystem.
* Work through governance processes to align with company standards.
* Work effectively with peers in the Solution Architect role, collaborating on and challenging each other’s work.
* Work management of Technical Leads providing both technical and pastoral mentoring.
* Provide thought leadership as part of the IT Leadership Team, challenging where appropriate but supporting the position that is agreed.
* Maintain a culture of empowerment and continuous proactive improvement.
* Provide effective guidance to staff and scrums to help them contribute to the success of the org.
* Support training and development to maintain the competencies, behaviors and technical expertise of a high performing team
* Assist in the development of AOP and Capital Expenditure plans
* Underpin the delivery of both strategic and tactical projects/programmes across the Group
Role Holder Qualities:
* IT professional with extensive knowledge and expertise in large, complex system environments.
* Technical excellence in your specialist area, combined with versatility and breadth of technical knowledge.
* Strong leadership and people skills and strong team player.
* Commercial awareness.
* Logical approach to software solutions and problem solving.
* Active and valued contributor in peer group and to upward reporting lines.
Accountabilities:
There will be a wide range of technical accountabilities and activities performed by the job holder depending on the specific discipline e.g. Design, Development, Support and environment Configuration.
Delivery Focused
* Constantly challenge and drive forwards the levels of quality delivered by the team, in concert with your peers
* As part of the IT Leadership Team, contribute to the overall development strategy and continuous improvement plans
Qualifications and Training:
* Experience of working in a matrix managed environment, with mixed teams including contractors and outsourced vendors
* Experience of working within Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies
* Ability to own and manage delivery risks and issues of a technical nature
* Ability to know when to escalate to senior leadership when appropriate
* Provide effective communication on the management and progression of risks and issues
* Understands all aspects of quality management and builds quality control for all key development deliverables into the processes adopted within the Engineering function
* Excellent appreciation of stakeholder expectations
* Able to develop, maintain and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders
* Excellent oral and written communication
* Able to construct and deliver presentations and options papers
* Able to facilitate groups up to achieve desired solutions
* Seeks opportunities to undertake training and mentoring of colleagues within the team and to more junior staff in wider development community
Technical skills:
* Enterprise standard architecture documentation
* Designing high quality and repeatable processes that result in low levels of production issues
* Awareness of industry best practice and new and upcoming technology trends
* Full solution architectural understanding across networking and software
* Experience managing large programmes of work across multiple delivery teams with varying technologies. Ideally gained within an enterprise scale organization within a technology or delivery team or similar.
* Tracking delivery timelines and interdependencies across multiple teams to report into stakeholders.
* Technical exposure to and/or experience in a range of technologies and architectural best practice concepts, specifically
* Data exchange and integration best practices and patterns on traditional “onprem” networks and cloud networks (Azure and GCP).
* Experience of delivering technical solutions in the insurance industry and a SME in topics such as Products, Claims and Settlement
* Able to understand and query enterprise size Oracle databases to quickly diagnose issues and make recommendations to the delivery teams.
* Automation of CICD pipelines in ADO and/or Jira across different technologies
* Able to read through repos of .NET, Java and PL-SQL code to review and/or understand the intention of the code.
* Exposure and passion for new and emerging technologies and trends
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