Description
Solutions Architect/End-To-End Delivery/High Level Design
Ref. 255537
Location: Newport
Duration: 4-5 Months
Steria Recruitment Ltd (a Steria company) provides recruitment and resourcing solutions to Steria, a leading European IT service provider.
EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY: This is an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Solutions Architect to complete a four to five month assignment for our important Central Government client based in Gwent. The position holder will be expected to provide technical leadership and innovation in the development of relevant projects.
Work Plan
Leads development of systems architectures for complex systems or an entire corporate suite of systems. Takes full responsibility for ensuring that systems architectures balance functional, service quality and systems management requirements as indicated by the business requirement.
Establishes policy for the selection of systems architecture components, and takes responsibility for the strategy and methods used in implementing a systems architecture in a significant organisation.
Co-ordinates design activity between the systems architecture, application development and service delivery functions and promotes the discipline to ensure consistency.
Maintains a detailed knowledge of current practice and an awareness of current developments within own area(s) of expertise. Keeps up to date on relevant emerging technologies
Produces detailed component specifications from systems architectures, taking into consideration the intended uses of the architectures as a whole.
Takes a leading and visible role in the development and promotion of the technical specialism.
Takes responsibility for the provision of quality assurance of activities involving the technical specialisms, which are carried out by others.
Desirable/Essential Skills and Experience
Essential Skills
Experience of leading and managing a team
Considerable experience in software analysis and design, including OOAD
Be familiar with the structure and configuration of operating infrastructures (hardware, operating systems, networks) and their significance in defining an application architecture
Familiar with one or more Enterprise Architecture frameworks (eg Zachman, TOGAF)
Ability to demonstrate Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
Experience in Ingres and OpenRoad technologies
Be proficient in at least 2 of the following (and familiar with at least 4): -
o Enterprise integration technologies
o Enterprise applications (preferably Oracle E-business suite)
o Java and J2EE (preferably Oracle Application Server)
o Relational Databases (preferably Oracle)
o Unified Modelling Language (UML)
o SAS
o IBM Rational tools (for modelling, configuration management, change management, requirements management, testing and modelling)
Be proficient in product evaluation and selection
Be capable of leading and facilitating workshops
Considerable experience in software development (ie coding) including some OO software development
Be proficient in the following methods and processes (and familiar with at least 3)
o RUP
o AGILE/SCRUM
o DSDM
o Visual Architecting Process
o Structured architecture review techniques (preferably ATAM)
The successful candidate must be willing to go through the required security clearance process. No agencies, so contact me directly.
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