Solutions Architect - Remote + Occasional London or South

Our client is an International Fund Administration and Corporate Services business. To support growth, they are seeking an experienced Solutions Architect.

The Solutions Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes, information and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

This role will involve designing solutions in the fund administration industry, covering infrastructure and application integration for applications including Salesforce, Workday, Bank Clarity, Swift, Medius, FenX as well as data and integration platforms. There are multiple projects that will cover these areas, so broad experience across infrastructure and applications is essential.

Key responsibilities:

The Solution Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions:

• Interpret Business Needs

o Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work

o requirements traceability document, business process/capability impact assessment, business process diagrams

• Assess Technology

o Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements / IT Strategy

o Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information

o Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models

• Apply Technology

o Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards

o Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture

o Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualise solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information

o Produces Solution documentation, enterprise target state architecture, application/platform strategy

• Provide Enterprise Guidance

o Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate

o Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision

o Producessolution scorecards, enterprise reference architecture components

Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful but not required.
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
• A team player the job holder will build strong relationships both within the business as well as with the suppliers and 3rd parties as required
• Resilience to cope with demands and tight timescales and remain calm under pressure
• Pragmatic, problem solver, willing to solve problems or seek out required resolution
• Initiative and problem solving: identifies problems, provides / facilitates the creation of options and recommendations, and uses initiative to drive solutions in a positive and constructive manner; whilst being able to identify and manages risk.
• Excellent communication: communicates with clarity and confidence at all levels; adapts style and content to the needs of the audience by being inspirational

This is an excellent global business to continue your career development with. In-house training is provided for relevant technical knowledge and soft skills development.