Senior Solution Architect (JD#11369)

Job Summary

Our client in a well established industry is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to be responsible for the end to end architecture of their enterprise systems in their digital transformation journey.

Mandatory Skill-set

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline;
• Has 12 years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering, technology delivery and technical leadership;
• Proven track record in designing and delivering complex, large-scale and mission-critical software solutions;
• Strong experience in defining architecture principles, engineering standards, technology governance and best practices;
• Demonstrated ability to make and communicate architecture decisions covering scalability, performance, security, resilience, integration and maintainability;
• Strong hands-on knowledge of modern software architecture, including cloud-native solutions, microservices, APIs, distributed systems and modern application development;
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD and modern software engineering practices;
• Experience working across public cloud, private cloud and/or on-premises technology environments;
• Experience building reusable engineering frameworks, common services, development platforms and software accelerators;
• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and lead technology experimentation, innovation and R&D initiatives;
• Proven experience mentoring senior engineers and architects, developing technical capabilities and driving engineering maturity across teams;
• Strong understanding of security architecture, technical risk management and secure software engineering practices;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and able to work well with cross-organizational teams;
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate architecture methods, concepts, standards and policies.

Desired Skill-set

• Cloud Security;
• Cloud certifications;
• PMP / ITIL / TOGAF.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership and establishing the direction for the IT architecture, standards, design and implementation;
• Translate business requirements, including application resiliency requirements, into application architectural specifications;
• Evaluate and recommend the use of leading edge technologies and methods, considering their practicality, technical limitations and criticality;
• Create, evaluate and implement high-level plans and design proposals for IT solutions;
• Design the architecture blueprint of the organisation's architecture set-up using multiple models;
• Manage technical project delivery - perform code reviews and ensure performance tuning and scalability;
• Document all solution architecture design and analysis work;
• Collaborate with vendor development team to resolve technical challenges;
• Analyze and determine performance tuning and scalability improvements of code and queries;
• Provide architecture and technical support during production incidents;
• Mentoring technical staff and raising the collective technical competencies;
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and digital trends.

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