Solution Architect

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Solution Architect

Responsibilities Include:
Ensures alignment to architecture standards and guiding principles (Applications, Infrastructure, blueprints) through close alignment with the Enterprise architects.
Works (collaborates) effectively across technical domains, with Enterprise Architects and other technical resources
Ensures delivery of end-to-end solutions that meet business requirements
Develop component-based solutions that are flexible, loosely coupled and highly cohesive.
Promotes reuse of existing data models and software.
Supports multiple concurrent project assignments.
Contributes to architecture blueprints and strategic design activities
Effectively negotiates delivery dates for SDLC architecture deliverables with Project Manager and teams.
Participates in planning activities with project team providing direction from architecture perspective
Identifies risks and issues and recommends effective mitigation strategies
Leads technical assessments of vendor products or new technologies.
Responsible for ensuring that solutions have the appropriate security controls in place to protect and maintain the highest level of confidentiality of all data.
Meet with project stakeholders to understand and document their specific requirements, issues, and concerns related to the system/application architecture.
Develop resource and time estimates for system/application architecture definition and documentation tasks.
Understand functional and non-functional requirements for complex systems/applications, and help develop non-functional requirements if necessary.
Understand the various types of tools and technologies in the market and their appropriate usage.
Understand corporate technology standards and policies, and be able to communicate their implications to project teams as they relate to specific development efforts.
Provide technical direction to personnel performing systems analysis and system/application development tasks.

Knowledge, skills, abilities, experience - required
Primary or Secondary degree in a related technical discipline
Experience in insurance or financial services systems development including in the design of component- and/or service-based systems/applications.
Ability to interact with multiple projects concurrently.
Ability to lead technology evaluation efforts, including the definition of the evaluation criteria, identification of technologies to be evaluated, and the actual evaluation
Ability to create and deliver technical presentations to technical and non-technical staff, as appropriate to the target audience.
Ability to engage with project teams in a leadership role, advocating on behalf of architectural principles and standards, and making compromises where appropriate.
Experience of performance testing strategies to validate non-functional requirements.
Experience of data integration patterns (ETL, EII, MDM) and tools (IBM InfoSphere, IBM MDM).

For more information and a confidential discussion please call Michael or email (see below)

Start date
n.a
From
CPL Solutions
Published at
11.08.2015
Project ID:
963250
Contract type
Freelance
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