Lead Architect, Solution Management
Date: 16-Jan-2021
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Company: Singtel
The Sales Solution Architect analyses, designs and develops roadmaps and implementation plans based on a current versus future state solutions architecture. He/she leads and facilitates the solution architecture governance processes based on the governance structure and manages exceptions to architectural standards at a solutions level. He/she assesses near-term needs to establish business priorities, analyses and develop solutions architectural requirements, and ensures alignment of architectural requirements with the IT strategy. He/she analyses the current architecture to identify weaknesses and identifies opportunities for improvement and performs ongoing architecture quality review activities.
He/she works in a dynamic and evolving business environment. He/she is expected to be familiar with a range of industry architectural methodologies and frameworks, architecture modelling tools, as well as product development methodologies. He/she ought to be passionate in keeping abreast with the latest technological developments.
He/she collaborates with other departments on architecting solutions design and integrating diverse needs and perspectives to develop fresh ideas and solutions. He/she possesses strong leadership and communication abilities, is creative and innovative in nature, and is able to influence key stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Render presales technical support to client service teams
- Analyse tender / client specifications or requirements and manage the plan for multiple solution workstreams
- Drive and maintain conceptual integrity of the solution design that addresses client’s business objectives and needs in order to create differentiated value propositions
- Coordinate and prepare solution deliverables (e.g., costs, risk and proposal) that are subject to internal solution governance and review processes
- Ensure the architecture and design is agreed with both internal stakeholders and external customers, while collaborating deeply with the practices to develop solutions that are on the mark and viable
- Maintain a clear, independent and objective point of view in order to exercise thought leadership and advise senior leaders on technical value and solution guidance for client, organization and community
- Ensure all the appropriate standards and quality expectation are adhered to
- Develop and refine solution patterns for common and recurring problems
- Be the expert resource to support interventions on projects where solution quality or progress has become an issue
The ideal profile for Application / Cloud Specialist should have / be:
• University Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 10 yrs of experience either as pre-sales architect or as solution/enterprise architect in a System Integration (SI) environment
• Certifications in ITIL, TOGAF and Cloud (e.g., AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner) would be advantageous
• Experience in enterprise architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, microservices, containerization, API and modern integration methodologies (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience in Digital capabilities, Data Architecture and Cloud-based Architecture
• Experienced in delivering highly integrated and multi-platform solutions
• Experience with the full software development life-cycle using traditional and agile methodologies
• Working knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD and automation technologies
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – ability to explain technology from a customer perspective
• Highly analytical and able to manage complex solutions
• Naturally inquisitive – asks questions to ensure understanding
• Ability to influence and negotiate
• Confident decision maker
• Strong presentation Skills
• Highly resilient and team player – demonstrated ability to work with multiple stakeholders to deliver a common goal
Apply today if you would like to be part of the winning team that does great work!
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