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JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title Senior Solution Architect Reports To (Title)

Job Content (Describe the key results delivered by the job holder, how they are measured and the tasks performed to achieve the results?)

Key Results Performance Measures Main Tasks

1. Technology solution articulation and definition

– Meeting
business units/
platform owners
requirements and
roadmap

• 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.

• Maintain a high awareness of
technology and industry trends.

2. Ensure the alignment of the information, data,
technology & business architectures

– Solutions
alignment across
different
architecture
domains while
meeting business
objectives and
priorities

• 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

3. Solution governance and documentation

– Number of
dispensations and
Alignment to the
reference
architecture

– Well informed

• Responsible for the overall solution
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

stakeholders about
the architectural
standard practices
and guidelines

– Up-to-date and
accessible blueprints

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.

4. Maintain resilient, agile and secured
architecture landscape

– Reduces number of
critical or business
disrupting
performance,
functionality &
security incidents

– Reduced time to
market/ time to value
and cost for IT
solutions

• 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

Requirements: Specifications (required to carry out the job, not what the current or recommended incumbent possesses)

Specifications Description of Knowledge / Skill etc. Desirable or Essential

A. Education

• General

• Professional

Master or Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information

systems management or related field

Enterprise Architecture certifications such as TOGAF or other

Essential

Desirable

B. Experiences
(Years & Type)

• Industry

• Regional

• Functional

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.

Experienced in 12-factor app principals.

Experience in applying proven architecture design

Essential

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.

Essential

C. Knowledge & Skills

• Technical

• Managerial

Comprehensive knowledge and outstanding technical skills of

software designs, data flow/ analytics and different integration

solutions.

Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing

environments.

Demonstrate exceptional technical skills across applications,

information processing and integration domains.

Experienced in development lifecycle and different software

development technology, frameworks and coding standards.

Ability to challenge the conventional wisdom regarding

technology trends.

Ability to understand the long term and short term

perspectives of a solution.

Ability to assess and analyze the wide enterprise impact of a

solution.

Ability to comprehend and articulate solutions based on

events driven computing

Knowledge of systems, components and architectural

principles and practices followed in distributed computing

architecture

Knowledge of key integration patterns and tools such as event

based, messaging, ETL, ESB & microservices based

integration.

Knowledge of best practice API development, deployment,

governance and management practices.

Strong understanding of technology trends and their

application in Financial Services.

Comfortable with ambiguity and promote innovative.

Knowledge of different cloud deployment models and cloud

taxonomies.

Knowledge of data processing architecture involving different

streaming and batch processing techniques

Essential

Desirable

D. Behavioral Competencies

• Thinking Related

• People Related

• Self Related

Excellent analytical skills

Demonstrate critical and systems of thinking ability.

Ability to negotiate and influence.

Disciplined, organized

Flexibility / Adaptability

Visionary

Works collaboratively

Performance driven

Essential

E. Personal Profile

• Age

• Nationality

• Gender

• Any Other

Not applicable

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