Solution Architect

The **Solution Architect - Impact
- Based Forecasting**leads the design and integration of technical solutions across digital, climate, and data service domains to build user-responsive, technical solutions, digital services, decision support tools, and web portals.

**Minimum Qualifications**

**Education**:

- Masters in engineering, IT, or systems architecture.

**Knowledge Skills and Abilities**:

- Design end-to-end solution architecture for complex IBF platforms, integrating multiple data sources, models, and user interfaces.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand functional and non-functional requirements and translate them into system specifications and technical designs.
- Oversee the integration of various IT infrastructure components (e.g., servers, cloud platforms, databases, networking, storage systems) into cohesive architectures.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to software development teams, ensuring alignment with architecture decisions, coding standards, and best practices.
- Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools based on project goals and constraints.
- Establish governance models and ensure architectural consistency across all project components.
- Promote system performance optimization, maintainability, security, and high availability.
- Participate in code reviews, system audits, and testing strategy development to ensure robust system design and delivery.
- Contribute to technical documentation, knowledge sharing, and capacity building for stakeholders and partners.
- Engage in IBF-specific technical discussions, including risk indicators, thresholds, early warning dissemination, and decision support workflows.
- Excellent communication skills, especially in multidisciplinary and multicultural team settings.

**Experience**:

- Minimum of 2 years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or IT systems.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in system design and enterprise architecture.
- Experience in working with disaster management, meteorology, or climate services or a related applied field is an asset.
- Experience in multi-stakeholder projects and facilitating capacity-building programs.
- Prior working experience with RIMES is an also an asset.

**Personal Qualities**:

- Excellent interpersonal skills; team-oriented work style; pleasant personality.
- Strong desire to learn and undertake new challenges.
- Creative problem-solver; willing to work hard.
- Interest and experience in working in a multicultural environment.

**Major Duties and Responsibilities**

**Impact based forecasting**
- Collaborate with other members of the IT team, meteorologists, hydrologists, GIS specialists, and disaster risk management experts within RIMES to provide digital solutions as per user requirements.
- Define system architecture across modules and platforms.
- Advise on tools, frameworks, and data standards.
- Guide implementation teams and ensure alignment with business needs.
- Assist RIMES and other IT teams as needed to generate IBF.
- Work with forecasters and domain experts to automate the generation of impact-based products.
- Ensure data security, backup, and compliance with data governance and interoperability standards.
- Train national counterparts on the use and management of the AL, including analytics dashboards.
- Collaborate with GIS experts, hydromet agencies, and emergency response teams for integrated service delivery.
- Prepare technical documentation on road maps.

**Capacity Building and Stakeholder Engagement**
- Facilitate training programs for team members and stakeholders, focusing on RIMES policies, regulations, and the use of forecasting tools.
- Develop and implement a self-training plan to enhance personal expertise, obtaining a trainer certificate as required.
- Prepare and implement training programs to enhance team capacity and submit training outcome reports.

**Reporting**
- Prepare technical reports, progress updates, and outreach materials for stakeholders.
- Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including strategies, milestones, and outcomes.
- Capacity-building workshop materials and training reports.

**Other Responsibilities**
- Utilize AI skills to assist in system implementation plans and decision support system (DSS) development.
- Utilize domain knowledge to assist in system implementation plans and decision support system (DSS) development.
- Assist in 24/7 operational readiness for client early warning systems, such as SOCs, with backup support from RIMES Headquarters.
- Undertake additional tasks as assigned by the immediate supervisor or HR manager based on recommendations from RIMES technical team members and organisational needs.
- The above responsibilities are illustrative and not exhaustive. Undertake any other relevant tasks that may be needed from time to time.

**Contract Duration** The contract will initially be for one year and may be extended based on the satisfactory completi