Key Skills and Qualifications:
Maintain and develop the platform architecture artefacts, including current state, future state, roadmap, patterns, blueprints, and health of the domain landscape ensuring alignment with enterprise architectures and principles.
Undertake high level research, horizon scanning and analysis to identify future trends, related strategies, policy priorities and issues to support future requirements for the enterprise, its customers and business partners.
Proactively and regularly engage the frontline users of the in-scope platform/domain technologies to understand and uplift the user experience.
Collaboratively work with and support the icare technology practice for the platform or domain fostering knowledge sharing, driving excellence, supporting solutions/designs, and ensuring the broader enterprise architecture strategy is being realised at a platform/domain level.
Where a solution primarily impacts this platform/domain then lead and/or carry out the development of architecture heatmaps, conceptual designs and solution designs including engaging other architects (enterprise, platform, solution) as required.
As the key knowledge expert, provide platform/domain input into heatmaps and designs developed by other platform and solution architects.
Provide architectural direction to development teams, participate in project implementations, and monitor and review progress on program and strategies against reference enterprise and platform architecture and strategies.
Work proactively with internal and external providers to research, evaluate, select, test, and implement hardware and software systems.
Ensure alignment of solutions delivered by providers, and internal architects with published reference architectures and IT strategies.
Participate in internal architectural governance forums ensuring appropriate design decisions are made.
Lead the introduction of new technologies into the organisation by clearly understanding the enterprise requirements and running the appropriate technology selection process.
Provide expert advice and guidance regarding the design and implementation of strategic platforms.
Identify and analyse IT organisational and sector strategic issues/options and align technology vision with business strategy to guide the development, implementation, and governance of IT strategies.
Review, analyse and provide input for continuous improvement into IT strategies and systems to provide recommendations on the alignment, risk, financial value, and contribution to organisational priorities.
Participate in meetings and discussions to share information and provide input and feedback.
Support in meeting the teams deliverables.
Escalate issues, keep informed, advise and receive guidance.
Provide recommendations and inform through reporting any emerging issues.
Support team members and work collaboratively to contribute to achieving the teams business outcomes.
Participate in discussions and decisions regarding resolution of issues and implementation of innovation and best practice.
Provide technical consulting services
Develop technical designs as required
Review solution architectures to ensure compliance with reference architecture
Lead discussion on technology related topics and issues
Represent work group perspective and share information
Act as the subject matter expert
Develop technical related designs as required
Architecture experience on platforms - Mulesoft Cloud hub, AWS Serverless applications and Bamboo with ability to do hands on development and ability to perform tech analysis of Code
