Solutions Architect

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Work Setup: Full Onsite
Location: Ortigas / Makati
Schedule: Dayshift

JOB MANDATE

Reporting to the Solutions Architecture Lead, the Solutions Architect (SA) is accountable for:

• Proactively and holistically leading or supporting the activities related to the development of IT’s Solution Architecture.

• Creating deliverables that provide solution direction for supporting the bank’s organizational and strategic portfolio of programs/projects where the solution should depict the current, transition and target state solutions.

• Determining the most appropriate technology to resolve a business problem built around the parameters of enterprise architecture guardrails to aid the teams responsible for performing the project planning, implementation and operational support.

• Leading and providing guidance to technical implementation teams and other stakeholders within the organization as part of the overall project delivery.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Compliance with Enterprise Architecture

• Understand, apply and advocate Enterprise Architecture guardrails which includes architecture principles, architecture patterns, technology standards and non-functional requirements.

• Create and maintain solution patterns that will serve as a reference for reusability and standard for applicable use cases.

Project Delivery

• Understand business drivers and business capabilities (current and target states) and determine from there the corresponding solution architecture and/or change requirements to deliver the target business outcomes.

• Recommend appropriate solutions and/or related processes to improve efficiency of operations based on the analysis of gaps or critical deficiencies.

• Perform continual assessment of current state solutions to identify technical debt against target state solution; or transition to new or emerging technologies.

• Provide solution consultancy support to application and infrastructure owners within projects to ensure alignment with the overall solutions architecture.

• Present and seek approval of solution architecture from the defined approving channels and from other key stakeholders.

• Work closely with the solutions architecture lead, enterprise architects, program managers, other solutions architects, infrastructure and security architects, application and infrastructure delivery leads to ensure that the execution of architecture plans are aligned with enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap.

• Ensure that the actual implementation is aligned and has no critical deviations from the defined solution architecture.

• Proactively identify, escalate and manage the technical risks and issues of the solution architecture.

• Participate or lead the evaluation and selection of software and technology standards.

• Document all solution architecture and analysis work through standard solution architecture templates.

• Performs other related functions that may be assigned from time to time.

• Lead the creation of the non-functional requirements based on the assigned project.

Capability Building

• Continually build knowledge of platforms, products and services to aid better understanding of coming up with a solution architecture.

• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.

• Share and cascade technical and business domain knowledge to the community of architects and other stakeholders.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology, similar courses/disciplines or with relevant work experience.

Work Experience

• At least 8 years of experience in IT software/services definition, build, and management.

• At least 2 to 3 years of experience in Solution Architecture practice responsible for the development of the overall solution vision that supports business-oriented project developments or strategic projects driven by IT.

• Understanding of solutions delivery lifecycle, agile methods and processes.

• Proven capability to support project and delivery teams by providing guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural considerations.

• Understanding of financial services, payments or insurance industry is an advantage.

• Good understanding of strategic, new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating model.

• Good knowledge and understanding of application development, middleware, system integration, infrastructure, database management, data governance, security and IT operations.

• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments gained from financial services, payments or insurance industry.

KNOWLEDGE AREA

• Solid grasp of current technology trends and understanding of legacy applications.

• Broad knowledge of application and infrastructure platforms ranging from legacy, on-premise and cloud platforms.

• Interest in new and developing technologies.

SKILLS

Technical Skills

• Excellent analytical, technical and problem solving skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Excellent planning and organizational skills.

• Excellent understanding of solution development methodologies, application development, infrastructure and network architecture.

• Communicate both in ‘technical’ language with developers and ‘business language’ with business partners/clients.

Behavioral Skills

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.

• Able to work well with internal delivery teams, external partners, vendors and system integrators.

• Driven, proactive and open for constructive suggestions and feedback.