Solution Architect - Banking/Payments - 12 Month Contract

Description

Green Light requires the services of an established and well rounded Solution Architect to work as part of a dedicated project team onsite with one of our largest clients in the Sydney banking space.
This customer is one of the largest organisations in the region and has a number of very large ready-funded projects being initiated over the next month - as a result they now require an experienced and consultative Solution Architect with a background delivering quality payments and operational integration projects to work as part of a large dedicated programme team delivering a number of high value projects in the next two years.

Solution Architect core responsibilities:

• Develop solutions that are aligned to domain architectures, have buy in from key stakeholders, maximise the re-use/leverage of enterprise assets and actively reduce the areas of operational risk
• Apply the company architecture processes utilising the internal methodology SDLC/PMLC templates
• Demonstrate and continue to improve knowledge of relevant business domains to make better decisions when formulating strategic solutions
• Advise and influence project sponsors and stakeholders on appropriate solution architecture

Solution Architect key responsibilities:

• Develop Solution Architectures and associated documents (TCP, TCD, HLSD) for a project. Architecture should respond to the function and non functional requirements and extend or leverage strategic assets where relevant
• Participate in concept and planning stages. Lead workshops and engage stakeholders as required
• Participate in the problem solving to deliver large scale change through process engineering, technology and people engagement
• Provide an architectural governance function for the design and build deliverables to ensure traceability of the built solution to the architectural principles and business objectives
• Work with the Bank's CTO group to manage the alignment of the program's architecture to the Bank's Architecture Standards
• Escalation point is to immediate manager
• Co-ordinate inputs from ES partners including ES Security, IT&O & the other CTO teams
• Articulate and evaluate key options independent of technology, for a given solution
• Able to lead the technical design process co-ordinating the various stakeholders from business and ES towards an agreed solution
• Influencing a project's technical and business stakeholders to adopt proposed design/architecture
• Identification and engagement of stakeholders, including architecture disciplines, asset owners, delivery owner, business stakeholders and SMEs to ensure the solution is optimal, and has the greatest chance of success

This assignment will only be won by the highest calibre of applicant - in order to compete for this contract you must be an excellent communicator, be ultra-professional in your approach and ideally be ready to begin the engagement within 2 weeks.