Head of Solutions Architecture, P&C

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The Senior Principal IT Solution Architect is a highly skilled and advanced subject matter expert with cross technology domain level knowledge.

This role is accountable for creating integrated solutions and collaborates and supports the architectural consulting function in architecting client solutions.

The primary objective of this role is to ensure the optimal functioning of an entity’s IT application software and infrastructure by outlining complex solution architecture descriptions across domains, functions and industries, then monitoring and governing the implementation.

The Senior Principal IT Solution Architect creates the roadmap, architecture and blueprints for the full solution set and defines efficient and coherent solutions to enable capability building blocks at the desired level of maturity for a domain or value stream.

Key responsibilities:

• Provides expert multi-technology advice to internal clients, analyzing and providing strategies and solutions on all aspects of application software, infrastructure and related technology components.
• Advises and leads the execution on the best design for information technology architectures.
• Designs and communicates high level structure to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs.
• Uses client business requirements to advise on the design, deployment and operation of application infrastructures.
• Provides expertise on the creation of designs that provide holistic views, but also contain the details of the components and interconnections between components.
• Involved with projects at the time of inception and is involved along with the project manager in the planning and governance of projects and the functional analysis (FA) of developing the initial requirements.
• Contributes advice on improving methodology frameworks.
• Manages proof of concept (POC) initiatives.
• Researches and investigates emerging infrastructure technologies and the best practices associated with these trends.
• Contributes to the improvement of internal effectiveness by contributing to improving current methodologies, processes and tools.
• Provides coaching and mentoring and technical expertise to less experienced members of the team.
• Performs any other related task as required.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Significant ability to construct highly complex solutions using their expertise of more of the function's offerings.
• Significant knowledge of multi-technology software, OS’s and infrastructure design best practices in a variety of hardware platforms including mainframes, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile devices.
• Significant multi-layered knowledge of reference architectures.
• Significant knowledge of project management principles.
• Significant knowledge of vendor roadmaps, new developments and new product offerings
• Analytical in their approach.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively interact with a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to share and communicate ideas clearly, both orally and in writing, to executive staff, business sponsors, and technical resources in clear concise language.
• Excellent strategic thinking ability coupled with excellent business acumen.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
• TOGAF / COBIT or related certification preferred.
• Scaled Agile certification is beneficial.

Required experience:

• Significant experience gained in multiple industries and across several disciplines.
• Significant experience with software development process or Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) projects.
• Significant experience working as a senior solution architect in a global IT services provider organization.

Workplace Type:

Hybrid Working

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