Solution Architect

Skills & Experience: 
• Experience defining, documenting, and architecting solutions acrossa hybrid and on-premise cloud estate, potentially requiring integrationwith legacy technologies and products for large projects/programmes• Experience of providing architectural support and assurance toDevOps team and an application of Agile practices would beadvantageous.• Experience with Technical Selection and RFI/RFP processes andundertaking supplier assurance of third party products.• Experience leading architectural design authorities for projects andworking within Enterprise Architecture Governance and EnterprisePortfolio Management frameworks.• Stakeholder management and the ability to influence at varying levels(e.g. C-Suite, Developers, Testers, Project Managers, etc)• Ability to convey Architecture decisions through the use of a varietyof communication techniques to both technical and non-technicalstakeholders.

• Broad knowledge of IT technologies and architectural styles/patterns
(e.g. Event Driven, Serverless, Microservices Architectures as well asSOA, layered).• Knowledge of financial systems including financial reporting,payments, collections and disbursement systems.• Applied Knowledge of the Open Agile Framework (Open.org) wouldbe desirable but not necessary.