Solution Architect - PageGroup SSC

Key Responsibilities:

• Build a strong understanding of business strategy, enterprise needs and market forces
• Comprehend, contribute to, and foster the enterprise IT strategies and architecture
• Proactively identify, raise and articulate gaps, problems and opportunities in the enterprise landscape, stating the value and risk of each
• Steer and shape the definition of requirements, processes and other business models
• Determine and document suitable solution architectures (changes to the enterprise landscape) in a variety of forms and levels of detail, along with the initiatives and approach to deliver them, in consideration of the bigger picture
• Assess value, risk and impact of tech-related ideas, proposals and opportunities, and advise leadership accordingly
• Identify, raise and manage key architecture decisions, and develop, document and present options for each, along with the key implications, in a manner understandable by key business leaders
• Steer delivery and technical teams in the implementation of solution architectures and architecture decisions
• Act as a custodian of the enterprise architecture and landscape, to ensure the broader concerns and non-functional needs of the business from the immediate through to the long term are represented at all times
• Manage relationships, provide advice (aligned to the enterprise architecture) and explain complex concepts in simple, non-technical manner to business leadership and other non-technical stakeholders
• Mentoring and guidance to business partners, product owners and key delivery personnel including project managers, business analysts, technical architects and technical leads

Authority/Decision Making:

The role has no financial authority

There are no direct reports



Qualifications:

There are no formal qualification requirements, although the following are desirable:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science
• TOGAF
• Recognised Solution Architecture qualification