Senior Platform Architect

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**Want to be a part of our team?**

**Working at NTT**

The Platform Architect is responsible for the creation of a platform and the corresponding business changes needed to help the platform become sustainable by the client. Acts as a trusted partner to our clients, driving organizational success while helping clients solve difficult technology and specifically platform related problems.

**Key role and responsibilities**:

- Drive solution technical design aligned with our platform capabilities.
- Responsible for technical design roadmap, client technical tooling, and providing input to the service and solution design to ensure such requirements are met.
- Contribute to the knowledge base of NTT’s development and services by sharing best practices with internal platform teams and client engagements.
- Create client experience layer platform design (portals, business mapping, integration, reporting, and automation).
- Comprehend, capture and articulate the client's technical architectures, use cases and outcomes.
- Design solutions that adhere to functional and non-functional requirements (including usability, reliability, performance, supportability, and security).
- Promote and evangelize the business benefits of our platform to the client, partner and NTT stakeholders.
- Act as the bridge platform integration gap between the client and NTT Service and Technical Architects (GTM, Dev, Delivery practices), whilst managing multiple technology stakeholder interests.
- Translate client requirements and logical and / or conceptual designs into physical designs within the specifications and boundaries of an IT architecture.
- Promote and maintain an environment of continual improvement within a development and delivery team.
- Lead the structured analysis and diagnosis of complex issues (performance, code, system defects, networking/hardware etc.).

**Knowledge, skills and attributes**
- Ability to lead technical design workshops with the client and NTT stakeholders
- Ability to design, manage and close a technical proof of concept on a vendor product
- Understanding of project management processes and methodologies

**Academic qualifications and certifications**:

- Relevant qualification (Technical or Business)
- Certification and working knowledge of Cloud Architect Azure, AWS, CGP
- Certification and working knowledge in Microservices (Principle, Patterns both greenfield & brownfield), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Access Integration (EAI) and Integration Patterns
- Certification and working knowledge with Cloud, Data Center, Applications platform integrations, RESTful APIs, including JSON, XML and SOAP protocols
- Certification and working knowledge with Software Development Lifecycle and tools, SAFe/Scrum/Agile methodology

**Experience required**:

- Proven track record in the area of business analysis and platform architecture
- Demonstrated experience with Service/Application/Infrastructure and Cloud Architectures, Microservice (Principle, Patterns both greenfield & brownfield), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Access Integration (EAI) and Integration Patterns
- Demonstrated experience with Cloud, Data Center, Applications platform integrations, RESTful APIs, including JSON, XML and SOAP protocols
- Demonstrated experience with Software Development Lifecycle and tools, SAFe/Scrum/Agile methodology
- Expertise and good knowledge on platform design best practice, including operation of platform
- A background as a system administrator or developer would be advantageous
- Good experience in and with all operational aspects of a Services business, preferably with a Systems Integrator
- Understand of project management principles / 1-3 years’ experience working as part of a project team
- Experience in the process of developing and implementing new services and systems

**Skills Summary**

Agile Methodology, Continual Improvement Process, Leading Project Teams, Management Processes, People Management, Project Management, Reference Architectures, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Technical Architecture, Technical Designs

**What will make you a good fit for the role?**

**Remote Type**:
**Equal Opportunity Employer**

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