Solutions Architect - Finance & Accounting

Company is growing solution architecture team, and looking for an experienced Solution architect to join team.

 Produces (or ensures production of) all Architectural deliverables under our development methodology.

 Identify all areas of risk, including Architectural, Technical and Security, and to manage with the cooperation of the appropriate Stakeholders, defining appropriate work to address these or

escalation as necessary

 Ensures that the Architecture, any Divergences and Risks are both clearly communicated and agreed by all Stakeholders

 Provides Technical Leadership to other solution architects.

 Drives alignment of Company landscape with the enterprise target picture, including system retirement.

 Provides Design Assurance for Solution Architecture to ensure they are implemented as designed, and to the correct standards and quality

Skills & Experience:

 Experience defining, documenting, and architecting solutions across a hybrid and on-premise cloud estate, potentially requiring integration with legacy technologies and products for large projects/programmes

 Experience of providing architectural support and assurance to DevOps team and an application of Agile practices would be advantageous.

 Experience with Technical Selection and RFI/RFP processes and undertaking supplier assurance of third party products.

 Experience leading architectural design authorities for projects and working within Enterprise Architectural Governance and Enterprise Portfolio 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 variety of communication techniques to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

 Broad knowledge of IT technologies and architectural styles/patterns

(e.g. Event Driven, Serverless, Microservices Architectures as well as SOA, layered).

 Applied Knowledge of the Open Agile Framework (Open.org) would be desirable but not necessary.

 Knowledge of Finance and Accounting business processes.

 Experience in SAP ERP implementations (S/4 HANA preferable) and Oracle E-business suite as an advantage.

 Experience in leading Finance Solution Architecture function in complex large-scale Finance Transformation programmes