Description
Role Title: Senior Solution Architect
Contract: 6 months.
Role Purpose & Context
Service Design architects are responsible for specifying the optimum technical & most cost effective solution architectures for our client's Mobile, Fixed, Core Network & Infrastructure technologies. Architects ensure that technology architectures are aligned to a set of architectural standards. An ability to clearly articulate, communicate & promote their solution designs is a key requirement of the role. Design Architects work closely with strategic vendors, adopting a partnership approach so as to leverage best value for the group.
Key Responsibilities
- Take architectural ownership of specific elements of the overall our client systems estate
- Ensure Group Technology architectures align with target architectures
- Provide technology expertise and consultancy across Group Technology and the wider group
- Engage early in the technical assessment to better influence the project definitions so as to align with technical capability
- Ensure the capacity of the key platforms is considered in solution designs in order to meet future demand
- Participate in governance steering & post investment reviews (PIR's) to ensure best practice & most cost effective solution designs are the norm
- Work closely with Principal Design Architects from across Group Technology, ensuring co-ordination across the teams eg setting up joint teams for all areas of governance including design guidelines & blueprints
- Influence commercial decisions to ensure optimal alignment with technical capabilities
- Work closely with strategic vendors, adopting a partnership approach and intelligently getting the best out of the vendors for our client's benefit.
- Adopt a commercial focus in vendor interactions to ensure that our client achieves excellent value for money
- Ensure compliance with Health & Safety
- Align with Group culture and values to drive the customer ethos, vision, mission and culture of the organisation to ensure successful growth and retention of its customers
Competency Profile
Key Performance Indicators
- Technology architectures meet the needs of the business in a timely manner and support Group business strategy
- Technology architectures are easily adopted by the operational areas
- Cost effective architectures in line with industry best practice
- Successful clean handover of new design & solutions to operational areas & domains within Service Creation
- Maximum integration with other architectural & Delivery domains
- Architectures and migration plans that minimise spend on heritage technologies while maintaining business continuity
- Management have clear cost/benefit information, facilitating appropriate development decisions
Business Competencies
- Customer Focus
- Results Focus
- Problem Solving
- Innovation
- Teamwork
- Influencing & Winning Commitment
Other Key Skills
- Self starter with strong communication skills, capable of managing vendors and stakeholders.
- Ability to deliver to deadlines and technology architectural solutions within objective led parameters.
- Drive a commercial focus in vendor interactions to ensure that our client achieves excellent value for money
- Commercially aware, able to understand and communicate in common business/financial language
- Able to explain complex technical issues in simple straightforward language
- Track record in implementing architectures or systems that have driven improvement in business performance
- Up to date with current and future development in the IT and telecommunications industry and able to demonstrate how these can be applied for business benefit
Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience
- 3rd Level Degree in Telecommunications Discipline & working knowledge of Architecture Frameworks (TOGAF)
- 3-5 years experience in the Role of Senior Technology Architect
- Exposure to and application of system standards such as LTE, 3GPP, eTOM.