Solution Architect

Solution Architect, 

Job Purpose

The Solution Architect implements solutions for internal and/or external clients. He/She applies highly developed specialist knowledge and skills to analyse the customer requirements and formulate a solution by working with different practice / guilds to deliver the solution to customer.  He/she adopts an analytical approach in developing innovative solutions to meet business requirements.

He / she collaborates with other departments on solutions implementations and align solution architecture to corporate vision / architecture.

The Solution Architect has good knowledge of technology landscape in the organisation and industry. He/she identifies suitable technology for implementation and guides the team through to implementation and benefit realisation.

The Solution Architect is an effective team player who manages stakeholders, deliverables and resources in a structured manner. He/she adopts an analytical and strategic approach in developing and communicating solutions that meet project objectives and stakeholder needs.

Key Accountabilities

1. Specify and design medium-complex data, web application and integration systems with demonstrable understanding of constraints such as security, availability, operational readiness etc.
2. Articulate solution approach to both business & IT stakeholders across UK, India and Singapore and at low/mid/senior levels, from concept phase through build and deployment to support phase, gain their confidence and concurrence
3. Work under time pressure in a phased delivery programme 
4. Operate simultaneously in waterfall, agile and DevOps methodologies as applied to different workstreams in a programme
5. Application and development of standards and policies – both technical and methodology.
6. Comfortable with demanding customer interaction and leading technical discussions with internal and external stakeholders
7. Interface with software / technology vendors to support project managers in technology selection
8. Travel for limited duration of up to 3 weeks to other RR locations outside India

Key Experience and Qualifications

1. Degree level education in Mathematics, Science, Computing or Engineering discipline or equivalent experience
2. 12 + years in a software delivery function of which 5 + years architecture experience building end-to-end solution architecture for at least 2 large scale / 1+ year duration engagements in regulated industry
3. Delivered multiple high quality end to end solution designs, from concept to deployment, for green field and brown field solutions in data intensive and visualization solution landscape
4. Hands-on experience with 
   1. Microsoft Azure cloud services and technologies to build data and web applications.
   2. Microsoft and Open source web Application development frameworks, tools, technologies in different layers of architecture
   3. DevOps methodology and implementation in Microsoft Azure
5. Good understanding of 
   1. standard architecture frameworks and practices such as TOGAF
   2. modelling tools and languages such as UML and BPMN
   3. cloud & on-premises infrastructure and data security standards and implementation
   4. solution deployment to Microsoft and Linux operating systems
   5. ITIL or other support frameworks
   6. Project management frameworks such as Prince2 / PMP 

Solution Architect, 

Job Purpose

The Solution Architect implements solutions for internal and/or external clients. He/She applies highly developed specialist knowledge and skills to analyse the customer requirements and formulate a solution by working with different practice / guilds to deliver the solution to customer.  He/she adopts an analytical approach in developing innovative solutions to meet business requirements.

He / she collaborates with other departments on solutions implementations and align solution architecture to corporate vision / architecture.

The Solution Architect has good knowledge of technology landscape in the organisation and industry. He/she identifies suitable technology for implementation and guides the team through to implementation and benefit realisation.

The Solution Architect is an effective team player who manages stakeholders, deliverables and resources in a structured manner. He/she adopts an analytical and strategic approach in developing and communicating solutions that meet project objectives and stakeholder needs.

Key Accountabilities

1. Specify and design medium-complex data, web application and integration systems with demonstrable understanding of constraints such as security, availability, operational readiness etc.
2. Articulate solution approach to both business & IT stakeholders across UK, India and Singapore and at low/mid/senior levels, from concept phase through build and deployment to support phase, gain their confidence and concurrence
3. Work under time pressure in a phased delivery programme 
4. Operate simultaneously in waterfall, agile and DevOps methodologies as applied to different workstreams in a programme
5. Application and development of standards and policies – both technical and methodology.
6. Comfortable with demanding customer interaction and leading technical discussions with internal and external stakeholders
7. Interface with software / technology vendors to support project managers in technology selection
8. Travel for limited duration of up to 3 weeks to other RR locations outside India

Key Experience and Qualifications

1. Degree level education in Mathematics, Science, Computing or Engineering discipline or equivalent experience
2. 12 + years in a software delivery function of which 5 + years architecture experience building end-to-end solution architecture for at least 2 large scale / 1+ year duration engagements in regulated industry
3. Delivered multiple high quality end to end solution designs, from concept to deployment, for green field and brown field solutions in data intensive and visualization solution landscape
4. Hands-on experience with 
   1. Microsoft Azure cloud services and technologies to build data and web applications.
   2. Microsoft and Open source web Application development frameworks, tools, technologies in different layers of architecture
   3. DevOps methodology and implementation in Microsoft Azure
5. Good understanding of 
   1. standard architecture frameworks and practices such as TOGAF
   2. modelling tools and languages such as UML and BPMN
   3. cloud & on-premises infrastructure and data security standards and implementation
   4. solution deployment to Microsoft and Linux operating systems
   5. ITIL or other support frameworks
   6. Project management frameworks such as Prince2 / PMP