Position Details:
The Senior Architect is responsible for the development of the overall vision that underlies the projected solution and transforms that vision through execution into the solution. This role will become involved with a project at the time of inception and in developing the initial requirements. They then remain involved throughout the balance of the project. They are an expert in many categories and should have hands-on experience in multiple industries and across several disciplines. Ideally should have experience of architecting within Public and Hybrid Cloud environments (AWS ideally). They can master a variety of hardware platforms including AWS, distributed platforms, desktops, and mobile devices. Akin to that they should also possess skill and understanding of a variety of Operating Systems. A broad and deep understanding of Databases is also required. They work very closely with developers to ensure proper implementation and are the link between the needs of the organization and the developers, often acting as the bridge between Enterprise Architects and Application Architects.
Responsibilities
- Provides overall technical leadership for end-to-end BSS/OSS enterprise architecture solutions, including integration with partner/third party components
- Prime technical leader of all technical aspects of the solution architecture, defines components for design and development and identifies skills/resources required to develop:
- Ensures compliance to principles of quality assurance
- Follows and promotes the agreed Best Practices and their supporting documentation
- Acts as trusted advisor for the customer for design considerations
- Proactively prevents and resolves technical issues to avoid escalation
- Ensures technical viability of solutions as defined in the Statement of Work and subsequent change requests
- Provides leadership of the project technical teams through the design, build, test, and delivery process Coaches and mentors other architects to build on products and industry knowledge
- Reviews and approves estimates for technical tasks as developed by mentored architects
- As SME, assists with significant sales opportunities
- Provides feedback to the product development organization for improvements, market trends, and product issues
- Assists and guides the customer in developing requirements
- Provides technical task identification; work estimates and skills required to assist other Architect, the PM and RM with task scheduling and resource requests
- Supports the Agile teams to keep deliverables on target and on time
- Assists with technical customer interactions from kick off through to SIT & UAT
- Provides feedback to the product development organization for improvements, market trends, and product issues
- Take ownership of a particular solution offering
- Develop and execute a solution strategy and business plan that support product growth if and when required
- Shape, design, and plan specific service lines in product area
- Spearhead product marketing and product development if and when required
- Manages a team of direct reports who drive service lines in the solution area
- Assists staffing coordinators who define project team requirements for projects in solution area
- Work with Delivery Services Director to define overall recruiting needs and expertise in solution area
- Work with Director of Delivery Services to establish professional development needs for practitioners in solution area
- Mentor and guide more junior architects and technical resources
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree or Diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering (Telecommunications) or Business (with major in Computing)
- Minimum 10 years software development and application implementation experience – ideally within an Enterprise Environment
- Act as visionary and strategist for solution from end to end
- Expertise in identifying and translating system requirements into software design documentation
- Highly developed skills in providing end to end solution and design details
- Senior design experience in database applications
- Experience in implementing technologically complex Projects
- Good interpersonal skills in terms of both oral and written communication and presentation with prospects and the customer
- Ability to identify and highlight technical risks
- Strong design skills with ability to document the designs
- Highly developed analytical problem-solving skills to identify and diagnose complex problems that require complex methods or theories
- Highly developed communication skills to influence and gain cooperation amongst team members
- Experience on multiple Hardware and Software Environments and be comfortable with complex heterogeneous systems environments
- Some experience with working with Agile teams
- Telecommunications industry experience and related product knowledge would be an advantage
- Project Management experience/skills an advantage