Description
Job Title: Solution Architect -PLM
Location: Leamington Spa
Job Purpose and primary objectives:
To Guide and influence the project teams within IT and Business functions on architectural decisions and considerations, manage and lead other architects within the team to ensure all work is delivered to an acceptable quality and provide design leadership to ensure fit for purpose solution designs that meet the functional and non-functional requirement.
Key responsibilities :
- Presenting to senior managers and shareholders within the IT and business functions
- Provide the primary architectural focal point for the project.
- Provide knowledge on modern Applications, Data, Integrations and security within complex and challenging environments.
- Prepare and submit detailed documentation on the solution to the IT Design and Service Authorities for review and approval
- Represent and explain the technical requirements and constraints of the project/program to IT and business management and advice on any associated technical constraints, risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies in a timely manner.
- Ensure solutions meet the reference architectures, standards and patterns outlined within the IT function.
- Ensure Development is in line with architecture and design principles and policies
- Document the As-Is state and create transition architectures for intermediate steps towards the target state
- Strong interpersonal skills to convince, reassure, persuade and negotiate
Supervisory/Managerial responsibilities (please specify if the position will have persons reporting to it):
- Experience of analysing existing systems and how change will impact surrounding environments
- Experience of Legacy applications including Mainframe
- Experience of transitioning Legacy applications in a controlled manner to modern architectures including cloud or a set of microservices
- Knowledge on application decommissioning and how to tackle sets of functionalities which do not fit neatly onto target state applications
Key Skills/Knowledge:
- Knowledge of PLM systems and the Dassault toolset highly desirable
- Relevant Qualifications including ITIL, TOGAF or Agile are beneficial
Experience required: 8-10 years
Duration of the Assignment: 6 months