Solution Architect

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Primarily an individual contributor but can be responsible for a small team.
• Main scope of work is to provide solution architecture development, consultancy and assurance to projects, making sure applications are well designed and conform to Shell standards and reference/segment architectures.
• Translates the guidelines and standards into practice and solves common technical challenges and provides technical recommendations which have a perceptible impact on local business performance; actively drives the identification, development and implementation of new technologies and opportunities to optimise technology/IT systems.
• Contributes to the training and guidance of other professionals in the field.
• May represent the Company externally as a subject matter expert with suppliers, customers and external agencies.
• Empowered to make decisions on solutions within guidelines.
• Applies TOE standards and raises step-outs if needed.
• Applies the standard architecture tools for creating and storing key architecture artefacts (IBM System Architect, PowerDesigner and/or ProVision); fosters re-use.
• Manages the relation with a customer base on senior levels of business leadership JG1/2.
• Understands the IT Strategic Roadmap and applies within the context of their organisational assignment.
• Uses the related reference architectures and roadmaps for Cloud, Mobile, Integration, OpenSource, Big Data, etc.

Mandatory skills:

• Strong stakeholder management, pro-active communication, engage across teams
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal), communicate viewpoints and decisions using content appropriate for the audience
• Business skills, apply industry sector knowledge, establish linkage between business v