Solutions Architect (Data and Applications)

The Role:

Solutions Architect (Data & Applications) is required within a fast-paced customer oriented international organisation. This role will be accountable for producing high level and detailed solutions designs, reviewing those produced by suppliers, ensuring all outputs meet the required quality and cost measures. The Solutions Architect (Data & Applications) partners with both business and technology groups to ensure that the proposed technical solutions not only align with the company’s overall objectives, but also ensures that both groups enable and drive each other to meet the needs of the company’s mission and vision.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce high level solutions designs which meet business objectives and
  requirements for specific projects
• Produce low level solutions designs on specific projects, ensuring alignment to policies and
  standards
• Partner with business and technology subject-matter experts to elicit and translate
  business requirements into technology solutions
• Partner with other architects and colleagues in Information Technology to
  provide a consensus based scalable and adaptable architectural solution
• Contribute to policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent
  framework is applied across the company
• Contribute to strategic roadmaps covering the overall enterprise and departmentally
  when called on
• Work towards building a business-wide data strategy presenting one version of truth
• Work with 3rd party technical resources to assist in delivery of technical solutions

Key Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in solution architecture or design
• Experience building technical architectures and designs
• Experience in building & marshalling data governance and IT principles and policies
• Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex solutions spanning multiple domains, including networking and infrastructure
• Experience in API design and use including large scale, close-to-real-time services using integration tools like RedHat Integration
• Appreciation of data modelling, reporting and data warehouse best practices
• Experience in Cloud solution design, ideally Azure & Salesforce (not essential)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project management and organisational skills

For a full consultation on this role please email your CV to Arc IT Recruitment.