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
