Solution Architect - TOGAF/Zachman

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Spring Technology is currently looking for an experienced Solution Architect. This is a 6 Month initial contract based in Hertfordshire.

The role is responsible for delivering integrated solution architectures for our international programmes of work, meeting current and future business needs and aligning with/leveraging Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps.

This is a senior role that will involve working both on shore and remotely on client site, with a wide variety of internal and customer stakeholders, to provide quality and cost effective solutions.

Role

* Provide credible technical knowledge and insight to senior stakeholders and external customers. Candidate will be responsible for delivering technical presentations to key external stakeholders and customers.

* Take a leading role during discovery / elaboration phases to ensure customers understand what is required architecturally to implement an ACH service.

* Ensure external customers architecturally significant requirements are realized as part of a customer solution either through extensions to client Products or through localizations.

* Provide the leadership to bring together business, application, infrastructure and data requirements into a single view of solutions options and recommendations.

* Understand and manage stakeholder expectations at a senior level. Provide clear choices and recommendations that enable both business and technical decision making.

* Support international technical pre-sales activities, understanding customer requirements, and aligning these to technical capabilities and Products.

* Maintain an expert level of technical knowledge in the required technical areas and a broader specialist base as new technologies emerge.

* Through the selection of appropriate solutions drive the reduction of cost to company and maximize financial return on investment.

Project Delivery

* Define and ensure the architecture and design approach is appropriately planned and delivered against. Own the suitability of the activities and artefacts to ensure the approach is not under/over engineered. Clearly report progress against plans and escalate as needed.

* Overall accountability for the solution architecture and subsequent design artefacts. Ensure solutions are for purpose and fit for strategy as well as meeting company standards and regulatory requirements.

* Responsible across the lifetime of agreed projects for identifying and documenting key architecture decisions and ensuring these are agreed by following the Architectural Governance process.

* Overall responsibility for ensuring estimates are completed in line with the agreed solution and that assumption are stated and consistent

* Support the testing function in ensuring testing strategies are appropriate for the solution

* Ensure that development teams fully understand, and follow Solutions Designs

People

* Support the leadership of the team and department by setting a high performance benchmark and encouraging and inspiring excellence in the team

* Lead by example and model the company behaviors to the team and wider organization. Motivate, inspire and give clear direction.

All About Candidate

* Candidate will have extensive IT experience, with significant experience in a senior architectural roles.

* Candidate will have experience and used, at least one recognized architecture framework or standard e.g. TOGAF, Zachman Architecture Framework.

* Candidate will be able to present and communicate complex architectural issues clearly and concisely with technical and non-technical audiences from senior stakeholders to project teams.

* Candidate will have experience of operating within a corporate architecture governance framework and standards

* Candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills including facilitation, negotiation, collaboration and influencing

* Candidate will be commercially and politically astute, able to see solutions in wider context of strategy and customer engagement

* Candidate will be able to determine approaches to solve complex programme level requirements into leading technical teams to delivered the required architecture and design deliverables.

* Candidate will have understanding of the product and project development lifecycle from strategy or pre-sales to live operation and support, ideally from a managed services perspective

* Candidate will be able to assemble a broad set of technologies and services to create a complete solution to a business requirement: application software, middleware, database, hardware, storage, network

* Candidate will have an understanding of solution trade-offs such as cost, scope, timescale, and balance between long-term strategic and short-term pragmatic considerations

* Candidate will be able to work with domain and technology experts to develop solution from high level architecture to detailed design level - recognized as a subject matter expert

Please send your CV now to apply !

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