Description
Job Description:
- Work with Business Analysts and Project Managers to understand business requirements and translate these to high level designs, detailed technical specifications and solution designs.
- Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to conduct the analysis needed to support solution definition.
- Provision of design documentation for all solutions, ensuring the solutions support architecture roadmaps, standards and principles.
- Be able to communicate your vision and designs to others by producing documented designs/proposals and present your solution and its benefits.
- Management and maintenance of design and solution documentation.
- Analyse problems and structure solutions for complex technology changes.
- Work across a wide range of solutions which include: off-the-shelf applications, existing customer systems, integration systems, data processing, web technologies and others.
- Engage collaboratively with all key stakeholders throughout all phases of the project.
- Support the handover of all solutions to Information Systems (IS) Operations, ensuring appropriate documentation such as work instructions and run books are included.
- Promote and champion best practices in terms of solution design, ensuring consideration of strategic roadmaps and strategy's.
- Contribute to IT strategy, architecture management, governance, and technology evaluations.
- Assist in establishing financial transparency of all solutions, considering key costs such as software licensing and hardware specifications.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Successful candidate to have 10+ years technology experience, with a proven track record in the delivery of IT enabled change.
- Proven solution architecture, design, and implementation experience with large scale projects.
- Extensive experience of Microsoft and Oracle technologies.
- A broad understanding of application, information and infrastructure technologies using industry best practices.
- Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to communicate technical issues and strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences. Backed-up with strong interpersonal skills.
- Bachelor's Degree or Masters in Computer Systems or Software Engineering or related technical discipline.
Desirable
- Architecture Certification and Accreditation (TOGAF, IASA, ITIL, etc.)
- Experience in the utility sector