Solutions Architect

• Own the relationship between Enterprise Architecture and delivery, communicating in both directions:

o Informing the EA roadmap to make it fit for purpose and achievable

o Explaining how to implement it

• Take responsibility for specific components within the ecosystem.

Accountabilities

There will be a wide range of technical accountabilities and activities performed by the job holder depending on the specific discipline e.g. Design, Development, Support and environment Configuration.

Technical Skills :

• Enterprise standard architecture documentation

• Designing high quality and repeatable processes that result in low levels of production issues

• Awareness of industry best practice and new and upcoming technology trends

• Full solution architectural understanding across networking and software

• Experience managing large programmes of work across multiple delivery teams with varying technologies. Ideally gained within an enterprise scale organisation within a technology or delivery team or similar.

• Tracking delivery timelines and interdependencies across multiple teams to report into stakeholders.

• Technical exposure to and/or experience in a range of technologies and architectural best practice concepts, specifically

o Data exchange and integration best practices and patterns on traditional “onprem” networks and cloud networks (Azure and GCP).

o Experience of delivering technical solutions in the insurance industry and a SME in topics such as Products, Claims and Settlement

o Able to understand and query enterprise size Oracle databases to quickly diagnose issues and make recommendations to the delivery teams.

o Automation of CICD pipelines in ADO and/or Jira across different technologies

o Able to read through repos of .NET, Java and PL-SQL code to review and/or understand the intention of the code