Lead, Solution Architect

الوصف الوظيفي
The primary role of Lead Enterprise Solution Architect is to design and implement integrated banking solutions to enable new business capabilities using advanced technology through innovation and digital capabilities.
Performs the leadership, influence, facilitation, analysis, design and solution tasks required for the development of solutions for business problem based on enterprise standards.

Primary Responsibilities and Accountabilities are:

To be a single point of contact (SPOC) as solution lead in engaging stakeholders (Internal to the bank), understanding their requirements, managing their demand and delivering an economically well assessed solution to the business problem in a timely manner.
Contribute in the development of architectural policies, principals, guidelines, strategies and best practices for the solution architecture practice by participating in management meetings along with varied direct contributions.
Develop and maintain strong customer (internal) relations ensuring ‘‘Customers for Life’’ relationship with “Go Extra Mile” attitude.
Work with multiple stakeholders; both leadership and subject matter experts, to build a holistic view of the organization’s strategy, processes, information, and information technology assets.
The role is to take this knowledge and ensure that the business and IT are in alignment.
Analyze enterprise business context (trends and business strategy), as well as change requirements in other Enterprise Architecture (EA) viewpoints, to derive the future state for the specified domain area by considering the entire application portfolio covering the domain and defining a roadmap for the optimization. This includes defining the technology domains (covering servers, storage, network, OS, Database, Application Servers, Web Servers, Application Development Environment, Testing, etc.,),standards, principals, guidelines and design patterns & models that guide technology decisions for the given business problems for the enterprise.
Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state of business capabilities, technology, application and data across the enterprise, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes to assess viabilities of initiatives.
Lead the analysis of the current business capabilities (enabled through applications), technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. In addition, lead the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the technology.
Provide leadership role and guidance to solution team in assessing various solution options innovatively and facilitate in recommending most economical solution for the given business problem.
Provide leadership guidance with designing the governance activities associated with ensuring architecture compliance.
Oversee or consult on technology implementation and modification activities (for example, projects), particularly for new or shared application/infrastructure solutions. Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure and identify when it is necessary to modify the EA to accommodate immediate or future project needs.
Oversee and facilitate the research, evaluation and selection of business applications, hardware (servers, storage and network) and software technology and product standards (like OS, Database, Application servers, Web servers, etc.), as well as the design of standard configurations.
Conduct market research and provide high-level capabilities, solution approach (Build / Buy decision) and costing (mostly through leveraging industry & technology research & RFI/RFP/RFQ process).
Conduct various assessment like Solutions options, Normalization of functions & features (Like license, etc., Off-premise vs On-premise, etc.), articulate key functional, technical, IT operational, vendor support, etc., among the solution providers.
Deliver solution design and costing for the bank level new initiatives (mostly through RFP process) for an optimal solution to enable stakeholders to prepare a viable business case to seek funding from ITC.
Identify the organizational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the EA.
Document necessary EA design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection.
Define metrics to measure and demonstrate value of solution architect function in specific and EA in general.
Understand, advocate and augment the business and IT strategies — and, more specifically, EA development and service delivery. Be prepared to “sell” the EA process (overall, not just for Technology), its outcome and ongoing results, and to lead the communication or marketing activities needed to ensure EA & solution architect practice success and use.
Conduct technical peer review.
Primary Work Arrangements
This role may lead/influence and manage a team of enterprise solution architecture technical architects (covering Infrastructure, Application and Data), while also virtually leveraging subject matter experts from any needed technical area.
This role will collaborate with business constituents, other EA team members like Business Architect, project teams, infrastructure management team and staff in various IT functional areas (like Infrastructure/Service Management, Application Management, IT Security, etc., ) as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above.

Internal:

Business Products & Services Owners
IT Unit Heads
Enterprise Domain Architects Team
Enterprise Architecture planning, Standards, & Governance Team
Internal Senior Technical/Business Forums/Committees
Information Security Governance.
External:

Technical Teams of Regulators, External FinTech and Other Business Partners Eco-Systems,
Technical Consultants, Industry Technology Research organizations, Business & Technology
Conference, Seminars providers, etc.
المهارات
QUALIFICATIONS

University degree preferably in Computer engineering/Information Technology related discipline. 
Masters looked upon favourably but not a pre-requisite
Desired skills with TOGAF, Zachman or other framework architectural modelling techniques
TOGAF 9.2 certified is a must.
Usage of architect / modelling tools like Erwin, Visio, SAP PowerDesigner, Mega, ABACUS Avolution, Aris etc.
EXPERIENCE

Minimum of 15+ years of architecture, solution design and implementation experience in IT, with a deep knowledge in a minimum of 5~7 years of the following business and technical disciplines in banking applications, network design, application development, middleware, servers and storage, database management, and operations
SKILLS

Required Knowledge and Skills
Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
Strong leadership skills
Excellent analytical and technical skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Excellent planning and organizational skills
Ability to understand the long-term (“big picture“) and short-term perspectives of situations
Ability to estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives
Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to business problems
Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
Knowledge of many, if not most, aspects of an EA technology domains (Various Server
Technologies, Storage, Network and Software Stacks like OS, Application Servers and Database, etc.,)
Knowledge and experience in various infrastructure related optimization methods like virtualization, cloud computing, shared services, etc.,
Knowledge and experience in various legacy and modern application development languages/environments/SDK, Frameworks, IDEs, testing, etc.,
Basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting
Understanding of the political climate of the enterprise, and how to respond to political challenges
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Demonstrated ability to work well with peers from both business and technology stakeholders and be respected as a leader
Track record for remaining unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor; and being more interested in results than personal preferences
Capable of being extroverted and collaborative
Motivation that is focused on long-term results
تفاصيل الوظيفة
منطقة الوظيفة الرياض, المملكة العربية السعودية
قطاع الشركة وكالات التوظيف
طبيعة عمل الشركة صاحب عمل (القطاع الخاص)
الدور الوظيفي تكنولوجيا المعلومات
نوع التوظيف دوام كامل
الراتب الشهري غير محدد
عدد الوظائف الشاغرة غير محدد
المرشح المفضل
المستوى المهني إدارة عليا تنفيذية
عدد سنوات الخبرة الحد الأدنى: 15
منطقة الإقامة بنغالورو,الهند
الشهادة بكالوريوس/ دبلوم عالي

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