Solutions Architect

Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities

• Supports cross-program, and cross-group Architecture strategies, opportunities, and problem resolution within a given domain, also setting enterprise direction.
• Provides input and guidance regarding the creation of guardrails (standards, policies, patterns, process and practice improvements etc...)
• Acts as a consultant and trusted advisor, establishing and maintaining an ecosystem of contacts within business units, regulatory bodies, even customers, to understand business activities and business drivers, as well as business vision and strategy
• Updates and maintains the key Architecture artifacts (inventories, reports, roadmap and other domain artefacts).
• Conducts horizon scanning, looking for emerging technology. This includes not just the identification of our industry's technology direction, but also as well as social, environmental and behavioural trends that would have an impact.
• Audits compliance with domain guardrails (over and above day to day governance and assurance carried out by federated solutions architects)
• Understands relevant vendor strategies, product roadmaps, and customer preferences.

Qualifications & Experience

• Professional qualification or similar, such as TOGAF
• Knowledge and experience of one or more architectural domains (business, data, application, technology).
• Knowledge of architectural frameworks, techniques and practices used in enterprise and solution architecture
• Ability to engage with colleagues around our product and technology functions. Solid grasp of AWS and/or Microsoft Azure technologies, especially storage technologies
• Strong knowledge of Hadoop/NoSQL
• Good working knowledge of GCP, especially BigQuery
• Preferred - knowledge of financial market data
• Preferred - experience of information architecture