Senior Solution Architect - 6 months contract

Compliance

• Ensures delivery fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise / solution practice architects and is in compliance with the IT strategy.
• Oversees the implementation of new solutions to ensure they adhere to the signed off solution architecture designs.

Financial Control

• Understands the fiscal components of a solution to ensure it satisfies the commercial requirements of the business and is sustainable, adaptable and practical within the RUN model.

Personal Effectiveness

• Ability to explain the complex in laymans terms to bring technology to the masses
• Accepts and lives the company values
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality for periods of 3 months to 1 year.
• Plans workload vs work demand for a small team of solution architects.

Strategy

• Models and defines the financial implications and considerations of potential solutions.
• Models, defines and collaborates around designs with business and enterprise stakeholders.
• Provides options and recommendations to business stakeholders to ensure that they can make the best business decisions based on the different solution alternatives and patterns.

Technical Consultation

• Analyses business processes to determine how IT investment could deliver value through improved cycle times, lower costs, improved quality.
• Builds the detailed transition plan for the more effective exploitation of IT investments.
• Defines a solution and ensure that it:
  • Meets the business requirements
  • Meets the non-functional requirements
  • Fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise / solution practice architects
  • Is in compliance with the IT strategy.
  • Can be readily leveraged by other parts of the business
• Responds to stakeholder needs and influences the development of alternative solutions.

Deliverables

• Solution Context Diagrams, Solution Architecture realisation documents (logical and Physical), business case.