Solution Architect

As a Solution Architect within the global Asset Management and Pay per Use team, you will be responsible for designing and guiding the implementation of end-to-end IT solutions across this domain. You will bridge the gap between business needs and technical execution, ensuring solutions are both functionally sound and technically robust. As a Solution Architect, you guide development teams in realizing innovative solutions that enhance our operations by providing architectural guidance

IT support for above domains is driven by utilising standard out-of-the-box applications and minimising custom application development. Your application landscape of approximately 6 applications ranges from basic SaaS to highly-integrated, globally-used SaaS solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Solution Design: You collect business requirements and translate these into process, application, information, and technology architecture that you document into solution architectures and design. You ensure that the right stakeholders are involved and that the architecture is within the guidance of the Enterprise Architecture Framework.
• Team Functional Leadership: You motivate, inspire, and facilitate development teams, ensuring that solutions are built in accordance with the solution architectures and designs.
• Architecture Roadmap: You work closely together with other Solution Architects and the Lead Architect to co-create architecture roadmaps and a target state architecture in line with the business strategy. You monitor the execution of the architecture roadmaps by maintaining and coordinating the architecture backlog.
• Enterprise Collaboration: You actively contribute improvements to Enterprise Architecture by closely cooperating with the Enterprise Architecture Community.
• Model Maintenance: You ensure that the baseline architecture in the enterprise repository meet the DLL ArchiMate modelling standards and is always up-to-date.
• Trends Monitoring: You keep track of emerging technology trends and proactively come up with ideas on how to leverage these emerging technologies to improve Commercial Finance's IT landscape.

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Day to day:

• Solution Architecture and Design: Work with the product owner and scrum team to deliver features that have clear solution architecture design and business value; as well as technical solution designs.
• Thought Leadership: Serve as a thought leader on solution architecture, staying aware of the latest technology and best market practices, and supporting and coaching fellow architects.
• Agile Delivery: Work comfortably in an Agile delivery model, ensuring fast delivery of the investment portfolio while achieving strategic objectives, this role aligns closely with developers on a scrum team.
• Quality Assurance: Be accountable for the quality of solutions by providing professional guidance and performing quality assurance activities.
• Communication: Communicate effectively with management, conveying complex processes and IT subjects in senior management terminology.
• Coaching: Coach fellow architects and developers, stimulating their professional development and driving the adoption of architecture within the team.
• Continuous Learning: Maintain an outside-in view focused on the customer, ensuring Commercial Finance's solution architecture anticipates market developments and customer needs
• Stay current with industry trends, finance technologies, and architecture best practices.

All members enjoy

• Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
• Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
• Flexible hours with possibility to work from home
• Career development opportunities: online learning, member development programs.
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• Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a solution architect.
• Certified in TOGAF ©, ArchiMate © (preferred).
• Excellent communication in speech and writing in English.
• Broad understanding of strategy and architecture modelling standards.
• Thorough understanding of financial industry including business models and processes. Familiarity with Inventory Finance is a pre.
• Experience in working in Agile/scrum environments.
• Experience with microservices architecture, SOAP and RESTful (API) services.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as React, Node.js, Vue.js.
• Experience with application development on cloud platforms like Azure.
• Experience with Business Process Management applications like PEGA.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and protocols such as the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database management.

Leadership and Interpersonal Skills:

• Ability to provide technical leadership across business and technical project dimensions, solving complex business requirements.
• Ability to work with the team to size, manage scope, and mitigate risk.
• Excellent team player with proven ability to influence.
• Highly adaptable to a changing environment.
• Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills conducive to team development.
• Ability to give and receive open, honest feedback and foster an open and inclusive environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to effectively work with disparate teams throughout a diverse business community.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

DLL's wellbeing ambition is to educate, equip and empower members to build connections, manage their mental, emotional, physical and financial wellness and maintain balance between work and the other priorities that make up their lives.

Our four wellbeing categories are as follows:

• Connection - Build meaningful connections with other DLL members
• Health - Manage mental, emotional and physical health
• Finance - Provide learning opportunities to help members achieve personal financial health
• Lifestyle - Maintain balance between work and life priorities

These are the things that matter to our members and the wellbeing of our members matters to DLL