• Responsible and accountable for producing the Solution Architecture design and data modelling utilising prescribed templates, methodologies, and tools.
• Responsible and accountable for ensuring that Solution Architecture designs (including data models) are submitted and progress via the prescribed governance process through to approval in a timely manner aligned with project prescribed timelines.
• Participates in planning, dependency identification and management as well as estimation with Project Managers.
• Leads Work Breakdown identification utilising Architecture designs as input, leads Work Breakdown identification and workshops.
• Ensure that solutions are delivered with the appropriate levels of technical quality attributes - performance, scalability, availability, security, modifiability, supportability, reusability, sociability.
• Review designs to ensure their adherence to strategy and or conceptual solutions, while considering business pragmatism and cost
• Strong industry knowledge of trends and how to innovatively apply them to shape and build out solutions.
• Strong consulting and business analysis skills
• Ability to influence management decisions across organisational boundaries.
• Provide technical leadership to multi-disciplinary teams for end-to-end solutions by ensuring all facets of the design are integrated into an architecturally compliant implementation.
• Provide strong delivery leadership that puts our customers first.
• Facilitate business engagement and support for designing innovative solutions.
• Utilize Agile & LEAN methodologies where appropriate.
• Insurance or Financial Services experience
• Experience with regulatory programmes of work
• Data Warehouse and platforms experience
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks and methodologies like TOGAF, Archimate or Data Modelling

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