Senior Platform Architect

**OverviewJob Profile Summary**

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.

**Job Description**:
Key roles and responsibilities:

- Drives MS 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 ’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 complex solutions that adhere to functional and non-functional requirements (including usability, reliability, performance, supportability, and security).
- Promote and evangelize the business benefits of our Managed Service Platform to the client, partner and stakeholders.
- Act as the bridge platform integration gap between the client and 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 stakeholders
- Ability to design, manage and close a technical proof of concept on a vendor product
- Good 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:

- Recognised track record in the area of business analysis and platform architecture
- 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
- Experience with Cloud, Data Center, Applications platform integrations, RESTful APIs, including JSON, XML and SOAP protocols
- Experience with Software Development Lifecycle and tools, SAFe/Scrum/Agile methodology
- Expertise and sound knowledge on platform design best practice, including operation of platforms
- A background as a system administrator or developer would be advantageous
- Demonstrated experience in and with all operational aspects of a Services business, preferably with a Systems Integrator
- Understand of project management principles / 2-4 years’ experience working as part of a project team
- Experience in the process of developing and implementing new services and systems