Solutions Architect - IT

1. Job Purpose:

The Solutions Architect contributes to the organizational goals through managed ownership and development and/or design of solutions architecture frameworks/roadmaps, enhances operational productivity through guidance/training, owning the governance and standards, making sure Operational delivery streams deliver responsive and cost-effective solutions that enable business needs.

2. Job Objectives/Outputs:

• Responsible for complete solutions design, analysis and facilitate implementation roadmaps in conjunction with relevant internal stakeholders in order to ensure seamless delivery.
• On a continuous basis conduct a risk/impact analysis on current or proposed technologies and capabilities to mitigate risk and ensure stability and continuity.
• To proactively work alongside Neutrinos Internal and/or Business stakeholders in order to identify technology solutions and capabilities which meet and improve operational and business requirements.
• To ensure efficient documentation and governance of architecture landscape.
• To ensure effective handover and understanding of designs and frameworks to project delivery and production support operations on an on-going basis.
• To proactively research and identify relevant technology and system design patterns to optimally address enterprise requirements and ensure continuous improvement.
• Provide specialised support and guidance to relevant internal stakeholders on system(s) and/or processes during change design and planning and acts as a subject matter experts that supports operational team.
• Drives short & long term architecture strategy and roadmaps for the overall IT project portfolio for key segments and solution domains (short term insurance, life insurance and insurance related products).
• Participates in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business and IT strategy.
• Communicates and validates program architecture with infrastructure team, software development team, project management team, and IT management team to ensure effective participation in the project management lifecycle.
• Establish successful working relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Deliver on Treating Customers Fairly principles in alignment with regulatory requirements.
• Own and drive the process of impact assessments for all and any change requests and or new projects.
• To proactively work alongside the Solution and Project implementation teams and identify whether the deployed Infrastructure operates and meets with the original design parameters once implemented and address any possibly capacity constraints thereafter on an on-going basis.
• To provide support to the Enterprise Project by identifying process related improvements to ensure that new solutions are proposed and is effectively implemented as well as assist with the development and definition of business cases on an ad-hoc basis.

Essential Experience:

• 10+ years experience in a production IT environment managing enterprise IT solutions, hosting of solutions on-premise and on clouds.
• Ability to write architectural design documents or review design documents provided by others.
• Knowledge and understanding of industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs.
• 6+ years of experience as a developer.
• Min 3 years of experience Project Lead and delivered enterprise level solution.

Desirable Experience:

• If the above mentioned was within the Financial Services Industry.

Knowledge Of:

• ITIL disciplines (incident, change, capacity, demand, business continuity management etc) (preferred).
• Understanding and knowledge of the alignment of IT and Business processes, goals and objectives.
• Strong ability to communicate well in English orally and in writing.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment and appropriately prioritize tasks, and keep abreast of the latest technology.