Lead Solution Architect

Solution Architect

The Solution Architect is responsible for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet functional requirements in support of a given initiative. The Solution Architect plays a role in establishing architectural vision and direction, architects solutions, provides advice and guidance, monitors emerging technologies, and assists in software and service procurements.

Solution Architecture Development

• Creates solution options and solution architecture, adhering to architectural standards and the technology roadmap, and minimizing technical debt.
• Designs solutions that involve complex, multi-system integration, possibly across BUs or domains.
• Drives alignment between Enterprise Architecture, Technical Architecture and business needs.
• Participates in application rationalization and the development of application architecture roadmaps.
• Identifies applications and platforms impacted by the solution, the need for new platforms, and drives platform selection.

Architecture Vision and Direction

• Contributes to the technology strategy by identifying, assessing and recommending external trends in technology, technology solutions and methodologies.
• Exercises solution design leadership on initiatives, driving alignment to target architecture and design standards.

Facilitates architecture reviews, ensuring adherence to architectural standards, and consistency across organizational and design boundaries.

Ability to:

• Contribute to strategic plans for technology, which satisfy the current and ongoing needs of the organization’s business strategy, and the current and future capabilities of technology.

Promote technology policies, practices and decisions which recognize the current and evolving needs of all the stakeholders.

Ability to:

• Lead the design of technical solutions for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external, and internal customers.
• Establish policy and strategy for the selection of solution architecture components, and coordinate design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency.
• Validate that appropriate standards are adhered to.
• Manage the target design, policies and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensure consistency of design across projects.
• Understand diverse design disciplines (e.g., UX, service design, technical design, and business model/process design).
• Design solutions that involve complex, multi-system integration, possibly across BUs or domains.

Ability to: Provide leadership and guidelines to promote the development and exploitation of technical knowledge in the organization. Effectively communicate technical concepts, options, implications to non-technical stakeholders in written, verbal, and diagrammatic forms (and vice versa).