Technical Architect
The Technical Architect role sits within Technology - Strategy &
Architecture - Enterprise Architecture Consulting, that is responsible for
the overall architecture for the business divisions. This includes
quality assurance of architectural decisions, technical designs and other
architectural deliverables (e.g. Solution Architecture document and
Architectural Impact Assessments, etc) to ensure solutions are value for
money and meet business requirements and alignment to enterprise
strategies, roadmaps, standards and patterns.

What you will be doing
* Designing and producing architectural artefacts for end-to-end
solutions, high level outlined architecture to detailed solution
architecture, including required integration, that are aligned to
architecture standards, meet the business vision and requirements,
take into consideration all risks, costs, benefits, limitations,
dependencies, deliverability and impact on the enterprise, technology
and business architectures.
* Supporting and guiding project teams and product groups in delivery
and implementation of end-to-end solutions. Driving and managing
resolution of technical dependencies and technical do-ability issues
including identifying viable alternatives and agreeing those with
architecture governance.
* Playing a key role in the development and implementation of Digital and Data Strategies, by ensuring solutions adhere to and enable
the implementation of strategies.
* Supporting divisional roadmaps which identify the scope, dependencies
and architectural impact of mandatory and discretionary changes,
recommend prioritisation and timelines for delivery of the required
capabilities.
* Collaborating with product groups and enterprise architecture functions
on defining enterprise and product architecture strategies and
standards, building product roadmaps and resolving maintenance and
post-go-live issues.
* Reviewing and quality assuring artefacts created by external suppliers
and internal teams (Product Groups and Change Delivery teams) to
ensure the quality of the delivered solution fulfils business and nonfunctional requirements and adheres to strategic vision.
* Identifying opportunities for technology-driven innovation and shaping
design proposals to take this forward; driving innovation where this delivers quick wins and business benefit and is in the
boundary of the product roadmap
* Engage key stakeholders in business, product groups, security, and
architecture function to identify capabilities, perform gap assessment,
maturity assessment and document architecture to create a future.
* Research technology trends and identifying opportunities to exploit
innovation ensuring these are fully understood and explored.

The skills and experience you'll have
Minimum
* Experience as a Technical/Solution Architect designing products,
platforms, systems and components on multiple programmes and
projects
* Experience of working on the end to end project lifecycle, in a multitechnology environment.
* Experience of designing and managing the end-to-end delivery of
multi-platform solutions.
* Exceptional communication skills, able and willing to describe and
negotiate complex and detailed solutions across a variety of
stakeholders.
* Exceptional critical thinker and problem solver, able to work with
imperfect information in an environment of uncertainty whilst still
maintaining high standards, evidenced designs and documentation that
consider regulatory, organisational and technology change
requirements, the divisional and enterprise strategies.
Essential
* Experience of designing and implementing digital and/or data platform
solutions
* Experience working with AWS technologies.
* Experience of best practice solution architecture across all architecture
domains and key platform technologies (Salesforce, O365, SharePoint,
Cloud technologies, Data analysis and Data management tools,
Integration technologies)
* Commercial awareness and hands-on experience at costing solution
options, understanding procurement frameworks and promoting cost
effective solutions.


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