Description:
The Solution Architect will work collaboratively with Business and delivery teams to provide detailed technical design knowledge, recommendations on patterns/best practices and implementation decisions. The architect will author solution & technical design documents and provide technical leadership to implementation teams. The ideal candidate will be experienced with solutioning, estimating, best practices, implementation patterns & conformance reviews.
Job Responsibilities
- Defining the solution architecture for projects across several business domains through understanding functional, non-functional requirements and Business strategy.
- Driving alignment and consistency of the solution design by working with the regional and global architecture teams.
- Owning and governing the solution design through the entire project implementation phase including guiding and mentoring the team.
- Producing all architecture related artifacts required as part of the SDLC.
- Effectively communicating the architecture to business and IT partners.
- Working with Project Managers, Scrum Masters and Business Analysts to contribute to high level project schedules, resource plans for the project, and project costs
- Supporting multiple concurrent project implementations where applicable.
- Engaging with in-country systems teams as necessary
Required Skills and Experiences
- Bachelor of Science Degree – Computer Science or related field
- Communication skills – verbal communication is clear, professional and persuasive in positive and negative situations; listens and gets clarification.
- Manage all aspects of transformation program delivery, including inception, requirements definition, development, integration, testing, release management, financial management, user acceptance, transition to BAU support.
- Overall accountable for program portfolio solution & design.
- Partner with Business and IT delivery teams to successfully deliver transformation programs.
- Ensure alignment to architecture & delivery standards and transformation delivery guidelines
- Strong IT Architecture experience
- 10+ years or more architecture or delivery experience
- Involvement in multiple policy administration implementations for Tier 1 insurance carriers
- Modern IT architecture, development methodology and automation skills
- Ability to operate and have credibility with senior business executives (e.g. BU CEOs, COOs etc..)
- Consulting or project transformation experience at an expert level
- Leadership – Exhibits confidence in self and others; inspires and motivates others to perform well. Excellent team building and coaching skills. Can successfully organize and direct large teams of people. Energetic leader with a positive attitude and a go-getter drive. Ability to effectively interact with senior management
- Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills and ability for productive collaboration across varying departments. Comfortable building relationships, internally and externally
- Self-motivated and self-sufficient
- Comfortable in voicing his/her opinion and representing the viewpoints of others in a productive manner
- Ability to deal well with ambiguity, conflict and difficult situations, and ability to deal with change in a pro-active and positive manne