Solution Architect

Job Description

Why usWe are part of one of the worlds leading airline groups, with 598 aircraft flying to over 270 destinations, carrying more than 118 million passengers each year and we are providing world-class IT solutions to our operating companies.You will make an impact in this role by Defining solutions to complex business problems using a wide range of artefacts, methods and tools and uses expertise and knowledge within a specific business domain to drive the transformational change of applications. Facilitating the structuring of business problems to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are clearly understood, aligned with business objectives and are traceable in the technical solution design. During the implementation phase, ensuring any deviations from the agreed solution are managed with the project to deliver a successful outcome. Maintaining a view of business and technical capabilities and applications within a specialist business domain, ensuring technical integrity and alignment with business requirements and the ongoing support of applications in line with obsolescence andsecurity requirements. Ensuring that strategic transformational change is embedded, influencing and leveraging relationships to gain buy-in of internal and external stakeholders. Managing of key supplier relationships, ensuring the quality of supplier deliverables meets Group standards and fit with strategic business requirements on a continuing basis. Providing expertise in driving forward solutions for applications, ensuring alignment with the business and technical strategic vision and goals. Ensuring best in class solutions that minimise customisation, through Solution design that integrates world-class applications, Supporting the business in understanding and interpreting the capabilities within a specific domain, ensuring design is consistent with the architecture and meets both functional and non-functional requirements. Communicating and negotiating with all relevant stakeholders (both business and IT) to ensure a balance of usability and fit with the enterprise architecture. Reviewing functional specifications to ensure alignment to business and technical requirements, managing any deviations from the defined direction through the project lifecycle. Collaborating through a trusted business partnering approach, proactively leveraging key relationships to ensure business, information and technology domain architecture is strategically aligned. Delivers tangible recommendations that align with the businessand finance, for incorporation into the Business Plan. Ensuring sufficient quality review points are built into projects and all interdependencies have been considered. Partnering with the project team to plan system testing tasks, auditing implemented solutions to ensure planned benefits are realised. Building strategic supplier relationships where third-party work or packages involve significant architectural decisions. Evaluates and approves third-party deliverables on behalf of our company Ensuring adherence to architectural principles, standards, best practice and roadmaps. Resolves or escalates potential non-compliance. Delivering on a number of projects, the breadth and complexity of which will vary depending on experienceTo achieve in this role, you are likely to: Have recognised architecture qualification desirable Have TOGAF level 1 certification desirable Form strong stakeholder relationships, with a proven ability of influencing and persuading internally and externally Manage senior stakeholder effectively, balancing and finding compromises between opposing views and opinions Have ability to recognise priorities and guide others towards the accomplishment of strategic business goals and objectives Embrace and manage both business and IT change as necessary to help shape future direction Ability to work under pressure Have fluent written and spoken English Have proven track record of architectural design and documentation at the solution level, working across the architecture domains (business, data, applications and technology) within a relevant business domain role in a specific area of architecture expertiseWhat we offeris The chance to enjoy a challenging career in an exciting, fast-moving environment in a dynamic industry. The opportunity to work in a multi-cultural environment with great offices in many locations.We aim to provide all our people with a work/life balance, as well as the many benefits offered by a global organisation, including health insurance, pension,and performance bonuses. We are an equal opportunities employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protectedby law.