Description
Company Overview
Xceed is a leading global IT professional services consultancy. Formed in 2003, bringing together experienced IT professionals who share the vision to build long term client relationships through the consistent and reliable delivery of professional IT services. In over 10 years of operating with a range of FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 clients within Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media and Energy markets. Our core skills have developed from pure technology through to IT Infrastructure & Application Integration and Business Change, with strong Project and Program Management always at the core.
Role: Senior IT Solutions Architect
The Senior IT Architect provides architecture skills and support to deliver business solutions and support as well as support to line of business projects. The IT Architect owns and maintains the technology roadmaps, which guide the delivery of technology and solutions (including projects to establish Shared Technology Services), for technology domains. The IT Architect works with service providers to drive and direct development and operations of services and works with Solution Architects to communicate and support adoption of enterprise standards and best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Researches technology options and assessment of potential benefit to client areas. Leads proof of concept projects to validate benefits, coordinating with Business units and service providers (including MGTI). Conducts due diligence of potential M&A and partnership targets. Provides critical review and feedback on technology proposals and initiatives; provides technical expertise for projects on a consulting and troubleshooting basis. Performs and documents architecture modelling and design, designs software components, processes and data flow to meet system requirements and defines and implements flexible, reusable and maintainable architectures.
- Develops implementation proposals for new technologies and services. Partners with project sponsors and business users to understand solution requirements and needs. Defines and documents the solution designs including designing required software components, integration data access and platform. Leads the development of application components and deployment of new systems and services. Ensures quality of technology deliverables by contributing to and communication of standards and best practices for development, quality assurance, security and service on-boarding
- Provides technical leadership to various projects. Manages the delivery of Enterprise Architect initiatives. Provides project managers with estimates of work to be completed and status information on a regular basis. Assists with the allocation of activities and work items to appropriate team members based on skill set and workload.
- Keeps current with industry trends (including solution architecture frameworks and patterns, emerging technologies, best practices); communicates opportunities to benefit from new trends and technologies to leadership and business unit peers and leaders. Advises and mentors technology colleagues and team members on technology skills, principles and processes.
Education:
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related field required; Master degree preferred
Experience:
- 8+ years of experience in software development and design; 3+years of experience in applications architecture.
Knowledge and skills:
- Strong experience with advanced Microsoft concepts such as COM+, Refection, MSMQ,C#,XLM, Threading, ASP.NET,SQL (Server); strong software design skills, development tools experience (Visual Studio, UML design tools, deployment and packaging), system integration (Windows, Unix, TCP/IP, Messaging/Scripting), Java and J2EE technology.