Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Solution Architect to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong design background and extensive experience in large-scale software development projects. You will play a crucial role in translating business needs into effective technological solutions, ensuring the alignment of our IT strategy with business goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Translate business needs into elegant designs with clear and definable technology requirements using the most appropriate technology.
- Support technical and software architects, developers, and other departments in cross-functional product teams.
- Communicate your vision and designs to all stakeholders and achieve consensus on direction.
- Collaborate cross-functionally as well as with external partners to ensure the delivery of best-practice solutions.
- Analyze problems and structure solutions for complex technology implementations.
- Work across a wide range of solutions including off-the-shelf applications, existing systems, integration platforms, data management and reporting, web & mobile technologies, and others.
- Contribute to IT strategy, architecture management, governance, standards, technology evaluations and be instrumental in guiding our technology goals.
Required skills:
- 5+ years of work experience in a solution architect role.
- Experience working closely with Business Analysts, Product Owners, and Developers.
- Experience with large-scale software development projects.
- Strong design knowledge, including API design principles, Domain Driven Design (DDD), Event Driven Architecture(EDA), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and similar design techniques.
- Proficiency in communication, data management, business and technology integration.
- Expertise in front-end and mobile technologies, personalisation, CMS (Content Management Systems), Digital asset management (DAM), customer data platforms, website tracking, Google Tag Manager (GTM), A/B Testing, React, and mobile apps.
- Strong understanding of backend development and tech landscapes.
- Solution architecture mindset with the ability to think strategically and long-term.
Desirable skills:
- 10+ years of work experience in multiple technology disciplines.
- Previous experience or knowledge of AWS technologies.
- Experience with Microservices architecture.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to present technical ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language.
- Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Evaluative and problem-solving abilities.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
- Experience working within architectural frameworks and standards such as TOGAF, IASA, Archimate, or equivalent certification.
- Experience with applying architecture in an agile environment, e.g., SAFe.
- Knowledge of high-volume e-Commerce/retail and services architectures.