Solution Architect

Jobinhalt

Context

We are looking to strengthen our customer’s agile teams with an experienced Solution Architect who’s responsibilities will be to develop and communicate a multi-dimensional solution architecture to deliver agreed business outcomes.

Role & responsibility

• Defining the planned operation and maintenance of the solution within a production environment — include changes to services, process, organisation, and operating models as well as technology
• Ensuring that existing and planned solution components are compatible with relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices
• Considering requirements for security, privacy and testing of solutions
• Taking account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices
• Identifying appropriate cloud services or platform that could fulfill partially or completely the desired solution
• Developing roadmaps to migrate components to cloud services and/or platforms
• Developing and communicating an implementation roadmap
• Providing guidance and risk-based governance to support solution implementation including managing requests for changes and deviations from specifications.

Among your responsibilities:

• Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
• Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
• Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration.
• Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
• Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Establishes policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.
• Manages trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
• Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.
• Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.
• Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.

Experience

• You have experience in software engineering and design architecture
• You have practical experience with projects in relevant engineering domain
• You have knowledge of cloud computing—Microsoft Azure
• You have knowledge of .NET environments and Microsoft landscape
• You have knowledge of typical enterprise integration patterns
• You are familiar with principles of computer networks and IT security management
• You have experience in business analysis techniques and processes

Education & Soft-Skills

• You must possess at least a bachelor’s degree in computer science or in an IT related discipline. Certifications are a plus.
• You must be an analytical thinker.
• You must be able to evaluate the likely effects of programs on the profitability of the businesses
• You have skills in designing, reporting, and documenting implementations, and solutions. You may know modelisation language such as "Archimate" (Nice to have)
• You have a knowledge of industry best practices and experience with software systems.
• You have an analytical, pragmatic and problem-solving abilities.
• You can work alone and in group, and time consciousness
• You have a good presentation and report-writing skills.
• You are fluent in both spoken and written English.
• You are Customer centric
• You are professional, transparent and you have a positive mindset