The Solution Architect designs and oversees the implementation of complex IT systems and software applications to meet business needs. They analyze requirements, create high-level solution designs, review technical design and ensure alignment between technology solutions and organizational goals. Solution Architects also collaborate with stakeholders, manage technical risks, and guide development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
Architecture Governance & Solution Design
- Capable of design and enhancement of software systems to achieve high performance and high throughput.
- Continually researching current, emerging technologies and third-party solutions, evaluate them and proposing best tech solution among all possible to solve the existing business problems and make sure they perfectly fit it in the existing enterprise environment.
- Understanding and Describing the structure, characteristics, behaviour, and other aspects of the software to various stakeholders such as business owners, business analysts, project managers, development teams and inform them about any problems within the current technical solutions being implemented and ensuring that all stakeholders requirements are considered.
- Understanding of how all parts of the business model work together including processes, services and application architectures, improving them, creating development frameworks and prototypes to be used by development teams.
Project Management:
- Supervising technical staff and providing them with constructive guidance and recommendation and resolving technical problems as they arise.
- Setting up and managing the collaboration frameworks.
- Managing the risks and product delivery.
- Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have.
- Defining features, phases, and solution requirements on product development processes, costs, and budgets.
- Accounting for deadlines and given resources and able to make critical decisions in tough situations within the given timeframe.
Qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- At least 8 years of Proven experience in one or more IT areas but not limited to: Engineering and software architecture design.
- In-depth knowledge of IT architecture, infrastructure, microservices, high volume transactions and cloud development.