Solution Architect

• Develop, analyse, and deliver solutions, ensuring integration requirements align with best practice and policies for projects and BAU work involving IT systems.
• Use hands-on skills to deliver design, build, and test activities, and lead or review work delivered by third parties.
• Lead and manage integration architecture activities with other IT architects, support teams, and third-party vendors.
• Act as the go-to person for integration-related topics, information, knowledge, technologies, platforms, and architecture.
• Work closely with support and service teams and third parties to monitor integration issues and lead timely resolution, especially for production incidents.
• Take proactive actions to prevent and address integration issues.
• Update integration architecture artefacts, including the integration inventory, integration architecture and design, guidelines, and integration patterns.
• Ensure compliance with IT security policies and participate in security, audit, and regulatory initiatives.
• Reinforce security rules and escalate risky activity when detected.
• Manage schedules and timelines across multiple systems and regions, assess and avoid conflicts, streamline work efforts, and communicate with relevant parties.
• Document processes, procedures, plans, changes, upgrades, and new integrations.
• Design, implement, and support ETL and Microsoft Power Apps solutions.
• Provide cover and support to the Solution Architects and report to the Data Architect.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Azure
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Data Warehouse
• Databricks
• DevOps
• ETL
• Frontend
• Git
• Support
• JSON
• Network
• Python
• REST
• SAML
• SOAP
• SQL
• Security
• XML

• Proven experience leading data warehouse, SQL, and Azure implementations and owning the integration strategy through to execution and delivery in an established IT department.
• Proven architectural design skills, with the ability to discuss the merits and trade-offs of different design approaches and technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, Python, Databricks, and ETLs.
• Strong experience with protocols and formats such as REST, SOAP, JSON, and XML.
• Experience with DevOps tools, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and automated testing frameworks.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing, data pipelines, and cloud-native architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to produce High Level Design and Low Level Design documents.
• Expertise in integration architecture and design patterns.
• Experience in data warehouse, SQL, and Azure solutions is desirable.
• Experience in Identity and Access Management, security best practices, and authentication protocols such as OAuth2 and SAML.
• Proven track record of delivering secure, performant, and scalable solutions.
• Experience with cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise integrations.
• Experience with frontend and backend systems, infrastructure, and enterprise monitoring tools is desirable.
• Ability to influence technical direction and set coding and design standards.
• Excellent troubleshooting, performance tuning, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including architects, business analysts, testers, and vendors.
• Background in software development and experience in a solution development or similar role, or within an established architecture practice.
• Experience developing enterprise-level integration design and delivering it using suitable technologies, standards, and governance.