Technical Architect

Exp-10 to 14 years

Please find the JD below for Technical Architect:

Job Purpose:

• Design solutions to meet short-term business needs and requirements as well as strategic architecture direction and roadmaps
• Understand existing systems and software components for future software based on best practices and modern technology stack
• Ensure that system architecture is continuously updated to match published architecture best practices
• Support architecture governance to ensure realisation of strategic direction
• Maintain a high level of knowledge and expertise across multiple technologies and disciplines, preferably SharePoint and IBM BPM both
• Facilitate adoption and utilisation of industry best practices
• Ensure that solutions are sufficiently documented to facilitate maintenance and new development

Job Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize solutions and alternatives including cost estimates
• Act as architecture lead in development initiatives to drive solution design and provide solution guidance and support to team members
• Ensure that the necessary application infrastructure and middleware is in place to support solution integration
• Maintain knowledge of best practices as well as state of the art technology and application architectures in the software & banking industries
• Perform architecture reviews and design inspections
• Document design rationale and ensure that deviations from standards and strategic direction are identified and communicated
• Provide recognised subject matter expertise and strategic thinking in assigned architecture areas
• Promote in-house and industry advances in software development practices
• Ensure that exposed APIs comply with enterprise publication guidelines
• Exercise architecture decision authority in alignment with strategic direction

Professional skills:

• Excellent skills in IT architecture and design patterns
• Excellent skills in software engineering practices and lifecycle
• Stays current with software architecture and engineering best practices and advances
• Strong knowledge of banking
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent skills in software development and tools
• Strong skills in using application infrastructure and middleware
• Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure
• Strong interdisciplinary understanding

Personal Skills:

• Superior customer-orientation
• Strong visionary and big picture thinking
• Excellent drive for exploration and navigating unchartered territory
• Excellent focus on achieving goals
• Strong at being efficient, structured, and working independent
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Good coaching skills
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills
• Takes own initiatives and perform tasks independently with focus on delivering results of high quality
• Improves own competences continuously
• Nice to have Certifications:

IT Architect Education - Unless:
The employee is already holding one of these certifications:
The Open Group Certified Architect
TOGAF Foundation and Certified