Technical Solutions Architect

**Role Summary**:
As solution architect you will partner with the various business and technology stakeholders to take high level solution strategy and drive to the detailed end-to-end solution design. You will be accountable for organizing and managing the solution team, ensuring solution scope and compliance, driving the solution and delivery/implementation approach, and overseeing the solution estimates generated by each team involved in developing the solution.

You will be expected to support technology teams to understand requirements and collaborate to design comprehensive solutions to meet/exceed client needs across technical architecture approach, functional business requirements, and services to design, implement and run on-going operations.

You’ll drive the solution architecture for a major implementation, relying on critical understanding of cloud native architecture, microservices, data management principles, big data, middleware technologies & distributed computing.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead a cross-functional team of stakeholders to develop a vision and a roadmap for upgrade of consumer finance technology platform
- Define architecture across business functions & geographic regions.
- Translate functional and non-functional requirements into design within the enterprise context; help business and technology define appropriate non-functional requirements and help in assessing the error budget defined.
- Create deployment strategies for existing and new services based on business objectives.
- Document and create reusable architecture and design specifications.
- Provide strategic and tactical solutions for technical issues.
- Manage different stakeholders to arrive at end-to-end technical design.
- Interact professionally with a diverse people such as management, executives, and SMEs.
- Leads team of solution architects and domain experts and enables them to provide fit for purpose solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, during the SDLC. Get development team’s buy-in into accepting the design to be implemented.
- Ensure that the solution architecture aligns with the roadmaps established by the enterprise architecture, and that it adheres to the enterprise architecture principles. Act as the bridge between Enterprise / Application Architecture and Delivery.
- Assessing implementation strategy feasibility, identifying dependencies, and overcoming obstacles.
- Assists in the analysis of new and existing architectures to ensure engineering platforms meet business requirements
- Assists in the design of overall system and solution architecture, system integration, and implementation strategy to deliver an integrated solution
- Works with both internal and external partners and suppliers to deliver end to end solution
- Contributes to broader architectural governance activities by participating in peer reviews for other solutions

**Requirement**
- Demonstrated 15+ years' experience as a technical specialist
- 10+ years of experience as a solution architect design and implementation of cloud native solution
- Experience in leading migration programs
- Proven effectiveness driving complex multi-stakeholder planning processes, driving cross-team programs to desired results, and managing risk.
- Proven competency in strategic leadership, executive communication and influence, organizational agility, cross-team collaboration, drive for results, and written and verbal communications
- Demonstrated leadership abilities, effective in matrix management and team building
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to speak to technical-level staff and summarize communications for business stakeholders and executives
- Ability to act as in a consultative manner with both business and IT leaders to align strategy
- Knowledge in technical program management methodologies.
- Experience taking ownership and delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Deep knowledge and experience in Cloud Native/ API / Micro-services, Agile / Dev-Ops, CI / CD technologies and best practises
- Strong presentation and written communication skills; high degree of comfort with technical and business audiences.
- Understanding of latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options.
- Deep understanding of Application, Infrastructure and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability and Availability
- Experience of Credit Cards, Commercial Cards, Card Payments
- Has experience of and is conversant with migration from legacy estate delivery to cloud based solutions, DevOps practices and agile delivery methods