Solutions Architect

Job Description

Providing technical leadership and solutions design With your significant experience, you will play a key role in ensuring deliverables are designed, tested, and fit for purpose following the industrys best practices. You will ensure all solutions align to BPPs Architecture and Business Strategy. Usingyour wisdom and expertise, you will act as a mentor for more junior members of the team and provide technical consultancy where required across the group. Using your excellent communication, you will guide project sponsors and stakeholders throughout projectsin all technical matters - simplifying the complex and conveying solutions effectively to the project team.What youll be doing

• Contributing to the evolution of the enterprise architecture function
• Understanding, advocating, and supporting the enterprises IT strategies
• Ensuring the enterprise architecture model is maintained including transition states from current states through to final state architectures
• Identifying and analysing enterprise business drivers to derive useful business context
• Leading analysis of the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Continually analysing the technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture
• Promoting the EA process, outcomes, and results to the organisation, including the enterprises IT and business leaders
• Consulting with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture to accommodate project needs.
• Consulting with infrastructure development project teams to fit infrastructure to architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the technical architecture to accommodate infrastructure needs
• Identifying organisational requirements of all architecture design and analysis work
• Providing final line for any escalated technical issues

Join the BPP FamilyThe world is changing. Help us disrupt, innovate, and build careers through education. Established for over 40 years, were a global education provider delivering diverse qualifications for professionals at every stage of their career.Committed Passionate Self-determined Nows your chance to be part of our exciting world.What were looking for

• Degree qualified and relevant professional qualification and experience (e.g., computer science, systems analysis)
• Ideally at least 7 years experience, in a strong technical discipline such as application development with a minimum of 3 years in technical architecture
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environment
• Awareness of TOGAF or Zachman architecture framework - ideally qualified
• Knowledge of all components in holistic enterprise architecture
• Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes
• Familiarity with basic graphical modelling approaches, tools, and model repositories
• Ability to comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Effective at acquiring an understanding of a problem or situation and developing an approach to interacting with the situation.
• Needs to keep overall objectives and strategies in mind, and not be deflected by matters of detail.
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives.
• Ideally possessing 2 years of experience communicating to C-Level management
• Demonstrable experience solutioning to 6 figure project budgets is a huge plus
• Retaining objectivity and proper understanding of a problem or situation when placed under conditions of stress.
• Effective in the application of relevant industry and process standards to all tasks undertaken.

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