Technical Architect

The Technical Architect role sits within Technology - Strategy & Architecture - Enterprise Architecture Consulting, that is responsible for the overall architecture for the client’s business divisions. This includes quality assurance of architectural decisions, technical designs and other architectural deliverables (e.g. Solution Architecture document and Architectural Impact Assessments, etc) to ensure solutions are value for money and meet business requirements and alignment to enterprise strategies, roadmaps, standards and patterns.

What you will be doing:
• Designing and producing architectural artefacts for end-to-end solutions, high level outlined architecture to detailed solution architecture, including required integration, that are aligned to architecture standards, meet the business vision and requirements, take into consideration all risks, costs, benefits, limitations, dependencies, deliverability and impact on the enterprise, technology and business architectures.
• Supporting and guiding project teams and product groups in delivery and implementation of end-to-end solutions. Driving and managing resolution of technical dependencies and technical do-ability issues including identifying viable alternatives and agreeing those with architecture governance.
• Playing a key role in the development and implementation of the client's Digital and Data Strategies, by ensuring solutions adhere to and enable the implementation of strategies.
• Supporting divisional roadmaps which identify the scope, dependencies and architectural impact of mandatory and discretionary changes, recommend prioritisation and timelines for delivery of the required capabilities.
• Collaborating with product groups and enterprise architecture functions on defining enterprise and product architecture strategies and standards, building product roadmaps and resolving maintenance and post-go-live issues.
• Reviewing and quality assuring artefacts created by external suppliers and internal teams (Product Groups and Change Delivery teams) to ensure the quality of the delivered solution fulfils business and nonfunctional requirements and adheres to strategic vision of the client.
• Identifying opportunities for technology-driven innovation and shaping design proposals to take this forward; driving innovation at a divisional level where this delivers quick wins and business benefit and is in the boundary of the product roadmap
• Engage key stakeholders in business, product groups, security, and architecture function to identify capabilities, perform gap assessment, maturity assessment and document architecture to create a future.
• Research technology trends and identifying opportunities to exploit innovation ensuring these are fully understood and explored.

Must have skills:

Minimum
• Experience as a Technical/Solution Architect designing products, platforms, systems and components on multiple programmes and projects
• Experience of working on the end to end project lifecycle, in a multitechnology environment.
• Experience of designing and managing the end-to-end delivery of multi-platform solutions.
• Exceptional communication skills, able and willing to describe and negotiate complex and detailed solutions across a variety of stakeholders.
• Exceptional critical thinker and problem solver, able to work with imperfect information in an environment of uncertainty whilst still maintaining high standards, evidenced designs and documentation that consider regulatory, organisational and technology change requirements, the client's divisional and enterprise strategies.

Essential
• Experience of designing and implementing digital and/or data platform solutions
• Experience working with AWS technologies.
• Experience of best practice solution architecture across all architecture domains and key platform technologies (Salesforce, O365, SharePoint, Cloud technologies, Data analysis and Data management tools, Integration technologies)
• Commercial awareness and hands-on experience at costing solution options, understanding procurement frameworks and promoting cost effective solutions.
• Collaborative self-starter with positive, proactive, can-do attitude.
• Strong experience of technical and environment interdependencies across projects and programmes.
• Solid and evidenced knowledge foundation (e.g. BCS EA and Solution Architecture certification, etc.)
• Experience with formal architectural methodologies and frameworks, including TOGAF, experience in architecture modelling tools and agile methodologies.
• Proficient knowledge of UML.
• An effective coach, experience of mentoring others in architectural practices.
• Evidenced continuous professional development and engagement with industry innovators and professional bodies.
• Experience of innovation whilst ensuring EA adherence.