Solution Architect - London Area, United Kingdom - Mastek

Description

Solution Architect

Permanent Opportunity

Location: London/Leeds UK

Hybrid Role

SC Eligible/Cleared/ILR/Dependent Visa Candidates may apply

Work Is fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and/or group objectives. Analyses, designs, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets. Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities.

Role:

• Build relationships with stakeholders across different business or technical areas in the organization
• Be proactive in identifying opportunities to improve the organization
• follow best practice for solution design
• Help your team achieve its objectives
• Support multiple architecture projects
• Find and use emerging technologies and approaches
• Support others to follow best practice for solution architecture

Responsibility:

• align your work with the work being done by other architects and technical professionals
• track emerging issues, strategies, roadmaps, patterns and technologies over time to assess opportunities and risks to your work
• identify how other teams contribute to delivering outcomes through change
• lead the communication of complicated, complex or risky architecture topics with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• communicate with senior stakeholders across your organization
• adapt your message and communication techniques to your audience
• advocate on behalf of a team to other stakeholders
• manage stakeholder expectations effectively
• understand commercial processes and the appropriate internal contacts within a government department
• understand different sourcing strategies and when to apply them
• understand how governance works and what governance is required
• take responsibility for the assurance of a service and know what risks need to be managed
• recognise when to move from one stage of a product life cycle to another
• ensure the team is working towards the appropriate service standards for the relevant phase
• manage the delivery of products and services at different phases
• make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity, and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase
• resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinions
• work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goals
• identify, analyze, challenge and validate business and user requirements
• work under limited supervision to co-ordinate and review the prioritization of requirements
• use appropriate requirements management life cycle methods to complete tasks and outputs related to the project
• apply strategy, using and challenging patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements
• provide guidance
• design systems characterized by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity
• select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively
• review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology
• demonstrate a good working knowledge of different tools and techniques, and can train others
• advise others on testing techniques and frameworks
• effectively research, plan and train others within the team
• use a range of technologies for testing
• use one type of tool to write test scripts
• use technologies to design and execute test cases under guidance
• translate logical designs into physical designs
• produce detailed designs
• effectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
• design systems characterized by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact
• work with well understood technology and identify appropriate patterns
• describe the purpose and application of strategy, standards, patterns, policies, roadmaps and vision statements
• support identifying, analyzing, capturing and validating business and user requirements
• work under supervision to manage requirements and support their prioritization, within a defined scope
• provide distinct task-based outputs for parts of the project as directed, using a predetermined requirements management life cycle
• show an awareness of the strategic context of your work and why it is important
• support strategic planning
• recommend decisions and describe the reasoning behind them
• identify and articulate technical disputes between direct peers and local stakeholders
• understand how the needs of the team and the product vary across the stages of the product life cycle
• understand technical governance
• participate in the assurance of a service
• show an awareness of government commercial processes
• show an awareness of legal and compliance rules
• listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders
• create and use different architecture representations to communicate effectively, achieving agreement with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• provide support in discussions about architectural topics within a multidisciplinary team
• identify relevant information that can inform your architectural work, such as strategies, roadmaps, policies and technical trends
• understand how your work supports the team in enabling change​