JOB DESCRIPTION
"Job description for Solution Architect
Our Digital Architects are the architects of positive futures and are at the heart of driving better outcomes with and for our clients. As part of shaping this future we use talented Solution Architects to deliver leading-edge digital solutions for our clients, combining a hands-on technology back-ground with a clear understanding of the business value and a consultative approach to make the difference.
The focus of your role:
The focus of your role, as a digital solution architect, will be on working in a product design or development team to architect the solutions for our clients. You will work on new or existing IT services that needs innovative solutions and potentially radical transformation to provide the digital offerings expected by the customers. Often both the delivery approach (customer-centric and agile) and technical solutions need to be proven and will require clear leadership to work collaboratively with our clients to achieve their outcome. Your work will include the design of the end-to-end solution, mapping the underlying capabilities needed to build the solution, to ensure the solution meets the required architecture standards, patterns, or blue-prints and to provide the necessary technical support to the scrum teams and product design team to develop the solution.
What you'll bring:
Must have experience of delivering Digital Solutions on one or more cloud platform (AWS, Azure)
Comfortable working in an Agile Environment balancing time-to-value and iterative delivery with governance and control processes.
Experience and knowledge to quickly build and test applications, cloud native services, work alongside UX/UI , front end and backend developers to build prototypes without hesitation
A good understanding of Cloud Services and Solution Components covering PaaS, SaaS, Serverless Computing and Micro-service-based solution.
Ability to communicate on a Business and Technical level bringing solutions to life for a range of stakeholders.
Ability to design an end-to-end solution that is cost effective, increases digital footprint, increases completion rates of a transaction, understand user centric design, meets business KPIs and user satisfaction.
Understanding of the current and future technology trends. You must have worked in delivering digital applications or services, APIs, DevOps, and agile environments and know the challenges to bring the best of old and new world.
Ability to develop our next generation of digital architects through formal line management and informal mentoring, coaching, and learning development.
Experience in the Banking and Financial domain is a plus.
Skills And Attributes for Success:
Good Solution acumen
Attentive to details and willingness to learn.
Organized and meticulous
Customer-oriented and ability to work within team effectively.
Self-starter and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
To qualify for the role, you should have:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent
Overall experience of 10 - 12+ years with 6+ years of experience in solution architecting
Strong experience in modern Web/Mobile development ecosystem, Cloud solutions, Micro-services, and digital best practices
Experience in Cloud hosting technology and leading solutions with front-end and back-end teams"