Senior Lead Solution Architect Contract

Job purpose:
The Senior Solution Architect plays a significant role in the solution definition, implementation
and governance of the overall solution implementation as per the best practices, architecture
standard guidelines and reference architecture. The Senior solution architect may be deployed
permanently or temporarily as part of agile squads to facilitate agile delivery as well as may be
deployed permanently or temporarily as part of platform teams operate in waterfall delivery
mode. Both deployment models will demand from the senior solution architect to work closely
with the software engineers, testers, other architects, platform owners and/ or squad members
in order to define and execute resilient, reusable, secured, scalable and highly performing
solution architecture that meets platform owners’ expectations in line with the architecture
governance framework, technology roadmap and best practices.

The successful candidate will perform work that involve close interactions and technical
guidance in multiple functional areas such as software development, testing, UX/ UI, different
squads and architects in the organization in addition to external parties such as consultants or
solution/ technology vendors. This individual will also seek to ensure the optimum utilization of
existing technology, promote open standards, cost effectiveness and resilience as per the
enterprise architecture guiding principles.

Tasks and Responsibilities
• Understand the business requirements in order to articulate thoughtful solutions taking
into considerations all functional and non-functional requirements into consideration in line
with the reference architecture and technology roadmap
• Drives end-to-end solution development
• Definition and governance of an effective solution implementation promotes
innovation, open standards & cost effectiveness in support of the organizational goals,
objectives and strategic requirements.
• Analyzes different patterns and trends to propose the best fit to meet the business
requirements and as per the architecture governance framework and technology roadmap.
• Provide consultancy and support to business units/ platform owners in identifying and
implementing effective solutions.

• Act as a technical advisor to the platform owners, squad members and software
engineers throughout the lifecycle of the solution definition and estimation.

• Ensure an open dialog with other organization’s architects & Enterprise Architecture to
maintain a constant alignment and promote synergies.

• Proactively promote collaborations with other architects (Data, technical, security &

solutions) in order to ensure the right alignment and leverage of existing technology,
solutions design and deployment patterns

• design and ensure its implementation governance as per the architecture governance
framework and technology roadmap.

• Ensure the governance and adherence to all defined Enterprise Architecture standards,
quality measures, functional & non-functional requirements.

• Promote and ensure the adherence to Enterprise Architecture guiding principles
throughout the lifecycle of the solution definition & implementation.

• Define, model and maintain the articulated solutions in proper documentations and
standard repository as per the Enterprise Architecture guidelines.

• Provide technical consultancy to different IT and business stakeholders in technology
best practices and problems analysis in technology solutions.

• Propose architectural enhancements in order to realize security, agility, performance
and cost effectiveness.

• Maximize the leverage on existing technology capabilities to meet the business
requirements.

• Promote resilient, secured and cost effective design, deployment and integration
patterns.

• Present, justify and properly document the introduction of new technology, design,
integration or deployment pattern as per the enterprise architecture governance
framework

Technical skills and qualifications

• More than 15 years of experience in information technology where mostly spent in
solutions definition, implementation and architecture.

• More than 6 years of experience in software development/ systems designs.

• Experienced in different integration patterns, tools, technology & trends.

• Experienced in Microservices and SOA principals, guidelines and supporting technology.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented analysis and design, and/or client/server
systems.

• Experiences in cloud native principals, designs and deployments.

• Knowledge of key integration patterns and tools such as event based, messaging, ETL,
ESB & microservices based integration.

• Experienced in 12-factor app principals.

• Experience in applying proven architecture design methodologies and tools.

• Wide experience in developing customer-centric solutions.

• Wide experience in developing critical, high resilient and secured solutions.

• Experienced in working with different open sourced technology.