Job Description

Job Category: Information Technology and Services
: Job Purpose *
As a Solution Architect, you will develop the end-to-end technical solution architecture for the digital channels technology initiatives. The Solution Architect will be responsible for the creation of the solution approach, rationalization of the solution, presentation/communication of the solution, and as a guide to the delivery teams for realization of the solution. The Solution Architect role will work business, partners and technology team to deliver digital solution and roadmaps.
Key Responsibilities *

• Provides application architectural and "big picture" oversight for development of new or enhanced technology solutions
• Interact with a range of people, from highly technical software developers to Senior Executive stakeholders
• Author and support the content for Solution Design Documents including Context Diagrams, Application Models, Application Profiles, Use Cases, Logical Application Models, Process Models, Logical Data Models, and High-Level Designs.
• Ensure design alignment with overall solution architecture.
• Review business requirements and participate in review sessions to gather and clarify business requirements, remove ambiguity.
• Work with technology/business partners (Architecture, Infrastructure, etc...) as needed to define design of solutions.
• Technical support through Development, Testing, and Deployment phases of the project.
• Proactive, regular communications with business, technology partners, and management to keep informed of status, changes, or issues.
• Develop and ensure compliance with architecture principles and standards for the various systems and components based on design patterns
• Lead analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture
• Acts as an advocate for the customer, as the ultimate authority on the architecture designed to address business or technical requirements.
• Maintains an awareness and understanding of competing products and provides ideas for innovation and improvement in order to maintain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
• Mentor other team members in project teams.
• Comfortable leading technical teams collaboratively through design processes.

Details of job description during different phase of delivery:
Demand

• Work with the Business User/ Business Lead/ Requestor to
• validate the ePIF submitted.
• Understand and confirm requirements with DM
• Engage EAD team, IT Infra and Vendor
• Develop and validate HLE input and finalise solution
• Complete solution based on DM request
• Communicate to DM
• Prepare SSD, TSD, TSW, HLS
• Consolidating confirm from all components and finalized TSD and TSW

Pre-Project

• Assess ePIF and propose approach on how to source for a viable and cost-effective solution; and
• Propose the solution approach and to seek concurrence from Business User;
• Work with the respective IT units to gather requirements;
• Ensure the IT requirements such as the following but not limited to IT Security and other IT regulatory requirements have been defined and included during the solutioning process;
• Conduct solutioning; and
• Participate in RFP Process from solutioning and technical requirements perspective.
• Review SOW from vendor to align with the solutioning

Plan for Project Procurement

• Conduct assessment on the requirements
• Determine type of solution required; and
• Recommend the approach to proceed with obtaining the solution

Develop Request for Proposal

• Assist Project Manager in obtaining user requirements e.g. technical and functional requirements
• Identify the criticality of the technical requirements
• Conduct due diligence on the solutions considered to be invited for the RFP and
• Provide list of potential vendors to Project Manager to be shared with business and GSP

Conduct Functional & Technical Evaluation and Vendor Selection/Conduct Proof of Concept

• Focus on technical components during pricing validation/normalization; and
• Must be an Evaluation Committee member

RFP Issuance and Proposal Opening

• Assist project manager in handling queries raised by vendors with regards to the RFP

GITSC * Present the solution in GITSC for approval
Project * Briefing on the solutoning with the implementation team

• Assist PM in technical issue/design resolution

Job Specification *

• B.S. in Computer Science or related field
• 8 + years of formal architecture design and implementation experience in API technologies, big data, n-tier applications, web architecture, & Enterprise integration
• 5 + years of software development experience
• Excellent communication skills with ability to communicate at an executive level
• Prior experience multiple SDLC methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall)
• Experience working with external customer-facing Web-based and Mobile Applications
• Commanding knowledge with Application Containers (e.g., Docker, OpenShift)
• Experience with open standards
• SOA principles and technologies; SOAP, REST, XML, JSON, WSDL, micro-services architecture
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Team builder and facilitator of cross team discussions with proven ability to identify and remove roadblocks and resolve issues
• Experience in complex system integrations (internal & external) and related technologies (web services, SOAP, REST, JSON)
• Experience with Identity Management (IDM), SSO, oAuth, CA platforms (SiteMinder)
• Experience on technology platforms (JavaScript/Node, JavaEE)
• Knowledge / experience with AWS platform components (Lambda, Lex, EC2, S3, IAM, API Gateway, VPC, DirectConnect, CloudWatch, et al.)
• Certified Architecture Frameworks; TOGAF, FEAF, DOD, Zachman

Qualifications
(Basic Degree/Diploma etc) Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Computer science/Computing
Professional Qualification and/or Regulatory, Licensing requirements TOGAF, FEAF, DOD, Zachman
Relevant Work Experience 10-12 years
Required Competencies and Skills *
Competencies/Skills
(Essential to succeed in this job)
Committed, self-motivated and dynamic individual, who can take ownership and manage technical issues in project in timely manner with quality solution.
Competencies: * Strong team player and can excel in a complex project environment;

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
• Able to work under pressure and deadline as well as quality driven;
• Dynamic in managing change and conflict;
• Leadership to motivate team members; and
• Challenge status quo and creativity in deriving solution.

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