Solution Architect

**Req ID**: 280494

We are currently seeking a Solution Architect to join our team in Bangalore, Karnātaka (IN-KA), India (IN).

**Position Title**:
**Solution Architect**

**Date Finalized/Last Reviewed**:
19/04/2021

**Organisation /Function**:
**Reports to**:
Client

**Subordinate Positions**:
**Job Summary/Purpose**:
NTT DATA are currently working with a top 5 UK telco operator and are looking for a Solution Architect with strong experience in Azure B2C cloud computing platform, Digital architecture, and exposure to front end technologies.

**Primary Responsibilities**:
**Key responsibilities and accountabilities**
- Responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of innovative digital solutions to address complex business challenges and drive digital transformation initiative
- Architect end-to-end identity and access management solutions using Azure B2C, ensuring alignment with business requirements, security standards, and regulatory compliance.
- Design and document the proposed solution, architectural and changes in the Software Design Specification
- Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and platforms to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in digital solutions.
- Define authentication flows, user journeys, and authorization policies to ensure a secure and frictionless user experience for customers accessing digital services.
- Provide input to the strategic direction of technology investments to assist in the development of the enterprise architecture and maximise the return on technology investment
- Solution design on customer focused digital services such as web, mobile, eCommerce and eBusiness
- Within the agreed enterprise architecture, define and design technology solutions to assist the business in meeting their business objectives
- Experience in Digital transformation projects
- Experience in a specialist function, either one of more (SAP Hybris, AWS, Adobe AEM, Front end frameworks)
- Undertake objective, critical analysis to draw accurate conclusions that recognise and manage contextual issues
- Work through issues, weigh up alternatives and identify the most effective solutions
- Take account of the wider business context when considering options to resolve issues
- Explore a range of possibilities and creative alternatives to contribute to systems, process and business improvements
- Should design, develop, and maintain systems, processes, procedures to deliver a high-quality service design.
- Implement systems and processes that underpin high quality research and analysis
- Participate in technology selection efforts and deliver solution for a given problem.
- Identify system, infrastructure and project interdependencies and balance competing demands to ensure project deliverables are achieved.
- Ensure compliance of developed solution to underlying solution architecture
- Deliver the highest quality of software design and solution requirements.
- Prepare high level time and cost estimates, identifies and mitigate project risks, plan the full project life cycle and recommend approaches to improve time to market.
- Provide architectural and solution oversight, metrics tracking and issue resolution.
- Participate in continuous improvement by proposing best practices, enforcing standards and improving processes
- Maintain relationships and collaborate with other integration domains including architecture, business analysis, infrastructure, quality control, and security
- Collaborate with product management & engineering to define & implement innovative solutions for the product direction.
- Delivering digital solutions by keeping the client at the forefront of digital technologies.
- Work collaboratively to contribute to achieving multiple team's business outcomes.

**Business Relationships**:
**Within own function**:

- Level: all roles up to Head of/Director.
- Nature: influencing, negotiating and providing technical information to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Purpose: to ensure the delivery of projects

**Across other functions**:

- Level: all roles up to Head of/Director.
- Nature: influencing, negotiating and providing technical information to a non-technical audience.
- Purpose: to ensure strategic alignment, business benefit and ultimately delivery of projects.

**External suppliers**:

- Level: all roles up to Head of in the case of Service Integrators, Service Providers, Technology Partner and / or Offshore Partners.
- Nature: influencing, negotiating and providing technical information to a non-technical audience.
- Purpose: to ensure delivery of projects.

**External customers**:

- Level: end customer in focus groups or all roles up to Head of in the case of Wholesale, B2B and / or Channel Partners.
- Nature: In the case of partners: influencing, negotiating and providing technical information to a non-technical audience.
- Purpose: to ensure delivery of projects.

**Competencies/Critical Skills**:
**Critical knowledge and ex