Senior Solution Architect

As part of our Solution Architect team, you'll work closely with stakeholders and technology professionals to ensure that Data Design & Architecture (DD&A) solutions meet the business and technology requirements. You will develop solution designs across AWS, Azure, and on-premises infrastructure, ensuring the most effective use of components which also meet current and future requirements. You will be responsible for ensuring that solutions are properly elaborated and documented, reporting to the Lead Solution Architect on progress, and leading the delivery of solutions on daily stand-ups. You will also co-present these solutions for review to the appropriate governance bodies for approval. When required, you will also support implementation of architecture, lending expertise to ensure any implementation challenges are overcome while aligning to the approved architecture., Your role as Senior Solution Architect will include:

• Gathering, analysing, and documenting requirements for solutions across cloud and on-premises infrastructure Confluence and LeanIX
• Creating and managing solution designs for required solutions
• Creating design patterns and blueprints for solution architecture
• Aligning to best practice using TOGAF and Government Digital Services frameworks
• Identifying opportunities for improvement in current solution architecture
• Meeting tactical requirements where applicable with strategic thinking
Senior Responsibilities
• Taking a specific area of accountability on data ecosystem solution architecture, e.g., master data management, reference data management, enterprise data catalogue, metadata
• Taking a specific area of responsibility in organisation wide data policies, e.g., data privacy, data archival, data lifecycle management, data processing, data analysis
• Ensuring specific areas of accountability and responsibility are accurately reflected in Enterprise Data tooling, including LeanIX enterprise architecture diagrams, data solution and data platform reference models, architecture principles, blueprints and implementation patterns
• Building strong relationships with equal grade counterparts, e.g., enterprise architecture, information management and privacy, engineering and enablement, and devops
  
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