Solution Architect

Job Opportunity We Reimagine Everything. We are a multinational technology consulting firm. We help companies and corporations scale their operations, achieve technology innovation, elevate their brand and transform their business model. We are here to challenge the status quo, flip the script, and blur all the lines in order to create customized end-to-end tech solutions, from software to hardware. We are a team of over 500 engineers from around the world with one shared goal: to leverage and crisscross technology, creative thinking, and industry-specific expertise to help our customers become and remain high performers in their industries. Basically, we take care of it all from A to Z. Our expert engineers have contributed to 8 US patents and developed award-winning innovative tech solutions, serving 80M+ users for over 100 clients worldwide, including top US Fortune 500 companies. Job Description This is a remote position. Solution Architecture is tasked with driving innovation within the business, and is expected to deliver on business needs, connecting business requirements with a great understanding of technology. Our Solution Architecture team must be flexible and skilled enough to cover a wide range of different styles of solution, from the heavily bespoke through to the more SaaS / package centric solutions. Having a team that knows how to build high quality technology solutions is critical for our ongoing success. JOB PURPOSE Lead the solution architecture definition for strategic end to end solutions, working with technical architects covering each solution component, and Enterprise Architects driving the long-term architectural direction. Lead cross-functional / team collaboration on the definition and alignment of strategic technology change initiatives Architect and deliver innovative and high-quality solutions across the entire business, delivering proof of concepts and innovation prototypes, and ensuring solutions align to our strategic vision. Guiding our offshore partners to deliver against agreed designs and ensuring that solution intent is realised throughout the solution build. Provide technical leadership across the project lifecycle from inception to completion of an implementation. JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES Working with external and internal IT and business units to define and document the solution architecture and high-level designs for IT change initiatives. Engaging with senior business and technology stakeholders to shape high-level requirements and direct focussed business and systems analysis activities to define detailed requirements (functional and non-functional) Identifying key areas of technical risk or complexity, proposing appropriate Proofs of Concepts (POCs) and Proof of Technologies (POTs) to gain objective evidence to influence the end architectural designs. Engaging with technical leads/architects and SMEs and other solution architects to understand and define the end-to-end solution architecture. Clearly communicating defined solutions to internal and external business and IT stakeholders. Gaining an appropriately deep understanding of the technical solution for each component of your defined architecture, and steering key technology and design decisions. Assuring and progressing defined solutions through the relevant solution architecture assurance processes, in co-ordination with our Enterprise Architecture (EA) team. Forming close relationships with Enterprise & Technical architects and maintaining an up-to-date understanding of our technology and business domains. Holding 3rd parties to account to ensure their documentation and designs meet our architecture standards, aligns to our defined end to end solution and meets our requirements. Collaborating with the Service operations teams to define the support model for platforms and components in the end-to-end architecture. Reviewing and assessing aspects of detailed design that deviate from the proposed solution architecture and any published technology strategies, policies, standards etc. Requirements KEY SKILLS REQUIRED Experience of designing / implementing a broad range of technology solutions, including: Data centric solutions, including large scale data processing and integration Solutions that deal with structured and non-structured data Highly distributed architectures A broad technical knowledge, with expertise in SOA and micro-services and a good knowledge of at-least one cloud platform like Azure, AWS or GCP. An understanding of the relative strengths and weakness of web, data and cloud technologies, and common architectural patterns. Being confident in presenting solution architecture and strategy to both IT and business audiences and being able to explain complex technical subject matters to business colleagues in a straightforward and effective way. The ability to break down large, complex problems into smaller more manageable phases or stages in order to deliver tangible outputs. Good knowledge of compliance and regulatory standards (e.g. GDPR) Active participation & leadership in a maturing architecture practice / community DESIRABLE SKILLS Experience in the market research sector Experience working with big data platforms and technologies A background in software development