Velocis Systems

Description
Role Title :
Solution Architect

Role Category : Purpose :
The purpose of the Solution Architect role is to :

• Define end-to-end solutions for IT change
• Create designs that are fit for purpose from a functional, non-functional, service, and security point of view
• Deliver solutions that progress the overall architecture journey and are aligned to the IT Strategy
• Comply with standards, design approaches and :

Nature Of Work
Solutions and Assurance :

• Create solutions and design for projects to meet the standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience and performance
• Produce design options with associated costs, benefits and risks to enable investment decisions
• Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree trade-offs between, long-term and short term goals
• Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state
• Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes

Technical Leadership

• Provide leadership on key designs to ensure the long term strategic goals of IT are met as well as short term project needs
• Ensure design artefacts are produced to support stakeholder group for service, security, architecture and engineering
• Peer review the design artefacts of others
• Provide coaching, mentoring and training to less experienced team members as required

Design Community Membership

• Contribute to the Solution Architecture community
• Develop your technical skills to support the need to understand and exploit emerging technology trends

Risk & Controls

• Identify, own and manage the specific key risks and/or IT controls and BP standards that you are identified as the owner and/or nominee for on iCARE or Archer
• Ensure that issues and actions associated to controls / risks are remediated in a timely manner
• Maintain appropriate records on iCARE or Archer
• Ensure that controls are sufficiently well designed and operating effectively to keep the risks that they mitigate within tolerance level
• Report and escalate the status of the relevant risks, controls and standards as appropriate

Resource Complexity

• Accountable for working within policy and guidelines, applying technical knowledge and expertise and prioritising own use of time

Problem Solving

• The essence of the role is project- based problem solving.
• Accountable for solving problems and dealing with difficulties in line with policy, process and other guidelines applying technical knowledge and expertise
• Depending on the nature of the specific role, problems can range from repetitive daily issues to complex technical problems requiring significant expertise
• Escalate problems according to guidelines

Change

• Recommend design solutions or ideas in response to challenges faced by your project or feature team in line with policy, process and other guidelines.
• Accountable for recommending change based on expert know how and analysis
• Take personal initiative in adapting to change

Internal Collaboration

• Build effective working relationships with :
• Project managers and others on projects
• Platform Managers and Specialist
• Platform Architects and Designers

External Interaction

• Maintain liaison with suppliers and the relevant sources of technology to ensure the specialist knowledge is kept up to date.

Timeframe

• Role holder will be assigned to projects and initiatives of varying size and complexity, with typical timeframes ranging from 3-18 months
• Longest target completion time of tasks likely to be 3 months

Skills :
Solution Architecture,Power Platform,Technical Design,Stakeholder Engagement

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