Solution Architect - London, United Kingdom - Mastek

Description

Solution ArchitectPermanent OpportunityLocation:

London/Leeds UKHybrid RoleSC 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 organizationBe proactive in identifying opportunities to improve the organizationfollow best practice for solution designHelp your team achieve its objectivesSupport multiple architecture projectsFind and use emerging technologies and approachesSupport others to follow best practice for solution architectureResponsibility:align your work with the work being done by other architects and technical professionalstrack emerging issues, strategies, roadmaps, patterns and technologies over time to assess opportunities and risks to your workidentify how other teams contribute to delivering outcomes through changelead the communication of complicated, complex or risky architecture topics with technical and non-technical stakeholderscommunicate with senior stakeholders across your organizationadapt your message and communication techniques to your audienceadvocate on behalf of a team to other stakeholdersmanage stakeholder expectations effectivelyunderstand commercial processes and the appropriate internal contacts within a government departmentunderstand different sourcing strategies and when to apply themunderstand how governance works and what governance is requiredtake responsibility for the assurance of a service and know what risks need to be managedrecognise when to move from one stage of a product life cycle to anotherensure the team is working towards the appropriate service standards for the relevant phasemanage the delivery of products and services at different phasesmake decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity, and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increaseresolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinionswork within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goalsidentify, analyze, challenge and validate business and user requirementswork under limited supervision to co-ordinate and review the prioritization of requirementsuse appropriate requirements management life cycle methods to complete tasks and outputs related to the projectapply strategy, using and challenging patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statementsprovide guidancedesign systems characterized by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexityselect appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectivelyreview the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technologydemonstrate a good working knowledge of different tools and techniques, and can train othersadvise others on testing techniques and frameworkseffectively research, plan and train others within the teamuse a range of technologies for testinguse one type of tool to write test scriptsuse technologies to design and execute test cases under guidancetranslate logical designs into physical designsproduce detailed designseffectively document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriatedesign systems characterized by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impactwork with well understood technology and identify appropriate patternsdescribe the purpose and application of strategy, standards, patterns, policies, roadmaps and vision statementssupport identifying, analyzing, capturing and validating business and user requirementswork under supervision to manage requirements and support their prioritization, within a defined scopeprovide distinct task-based outputs for parts of the project as directed, using a predetermined requirements management life cycleshow an awareness of the strategic context of your work and why it is importantsupport strategic planningrecommend decisions and describe the reasoning behind themidentify and articulate technical disputes between direct peers and local stakeholdersunderstand how the needs of the team and the product vary across the stages of the product life cycleunderstand technical governanceparticipate in the assurance of a serviceshow an awareness of government commercial processesshow an awareness of legal and compliance ruleslisten to the needs of technical and business stakeholderscreate and use different architecture representations to communicate effectively, achieving agreement with technical and non-technical stakeholdersprovide support in discussions about architectural topics within a multidisciplinary teamidentify relevant information that can inform your architectural work, such as strategies, roadmaps, policies and technical trendsunderstand how your work supports the team in enabling change​