Solution Architect

The role requires Suite of excellent information systems that meet or exceed stakeholder expectations for both functionality, availability and performance. You will be responsible for the delivery of the IT strategy particularly the exploitation of Cloud services and off the shelf solutions.

**Job **Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Partner with the organization to understand organization and departmental strategy and agree information systems solutions to meet needs.
- Maintain an awareness of business solutions particularly in the area of collaboration, document management, CRM and b2b/b2c e-commerce system that support the client mission.
- Investigate information systems that might benefit the client.
- Lead in designing, specifying and selecting information system solutions, considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance.
- Develop and maintain a model of the client’s current and future Application Architecture.
- Develop and maintain a model of the client’s current and future web architecture and design a structure that is stable, resilient and performant.
- Lead the organization in exploiting technology and use knowledge of IT solutions to drive organizational change and support business process design.
- Understand and support to software architecture design and support development team in developing solutions and integration patterns with external systems
- Estimate cost, and prepare business cases for IT solutions, considering infrastructure, licenses, development and support
- Work with the Project Managers and Business Analysts to develop high level project schedule resource plans for implementation projects.

**Skills and Experience** r**equired**:

- Strategic business acumen and understanding of organization strategy and ability to design information systems to delivery that strategy
- Hands on experience in designing an e-commerce platform (b2b/b2c) using an open-source tech stack. Particularly scripting languages for backend (PHP, Ruby, Python etc.) and modern JavaScript framework (React.js, Vue.js etc.)
- Extensive experience in Cloud platforms specifically Azure and Kubernetes
- Experience in evaluating a broad range of information solutions and products particularly document management, collaboration, payment providers and content management
- Extensive experience in Cloud platforms specifically Azure
- Excellent communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts to lay audiences. Some experience of with working with board level stakeholders.
- Self-starter with the ability to appropriately prioritize and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment
- Results oriented with ability to produce products that deliver organizational benefit
- Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude.
- Team player with experience leading and collaborating cross-team to ensure successful delivery of solutions
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills - demonstrating outside-the-box problem solving skills
- Ability to develop solution architecture designs with detailed knowledge of enterprise integration patterns
- Experience of developing Services Orientated Architectures (SOA) and Domain Driven Design (DDD)
- Working knowledge of infrastructure including servers, storage, firewalls, load balancers, routers, etc
- A minimum of four years in a professional senior technical role such as technical lead, team lead, architect, or other hands-on leadership role ideally for a major consultancy or system integrator.
- Ideally formal qualification in Enterprise Architecture (e.g. TOGAF) or formal qualifications in technology.