About the Role
We're looking for a skilled IT Application Architect to join our team. As an IT Application Architect, you will be responsible for leading the design and architecture of stream-specific applications.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Leading the design and architecture of stream-specific applications to ensure they adhere to organisational goals, principles and standards as well as industry best practices.
2. Designing and implementing integrations that enable seamless data and process flow between departmental systems, core organisation solutions (ERP, CMS, etc) and within the wider data and application landscape while ensuring interoperability between applications to facilitate efficient working practices.
3. Analyzing existing business processes and workflows, identifying opportunities for optimisation and collaborating with business and IT teams to implement improvements.
4. Advocating for a cohesive, enterprise-wide approach to technology investments that supports scalability, cost-efficiency, and long-term alignment with business goals.
5. Ensuring that agreed best practices, governance standards, and legal and regulatory compliance requirements across the technology ecosystem are followed, collaborating with compliance and risk management teams as needed.
6. Working with security, governance and product teams to implement security best practices and ensure regulatory compliance within applications.
7. Documenting all application architecture design and analysis work.
8. Ensuring technology and delivery approaches are aligned between delivery teams and with the overall IT and Architecture strategies.
9. Representing interests when working with external parties.
10. Identifying organisational impact and financial impact of application architecture.
11. Ensuring that IT Architecture is recognised as a valuable asset.