Solution Architect in Watford

As a Solution Architect within the global Asset Management and Pay per Use team, you will be responsible for designing and guiding the implementation of end-to-end IT solutions across this domain. You will bridge the gap between business needs and technical execution, ensuring solutions are both functionally sound and technically robust. As a Solution Architect, you guide development teams in realizing innovative solutions that enhance our Commercial Finance operations by providing architectural guidance.

IT support for above domains is driven by utilising standard out-of-the-box applications and minimising custom application development. Your application landscape of approximately 6 applications ranges from basic SaaS to highly-integrated, globally-used SaaS solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Solution Design: You collect business requirements and translate these into process, application, information, and technology architecture that you document into solution architectures and design. You ensure that the right stakeholders are involved and that the architecture is within the guidance of the Enterprise Architecture Framework.
• Team Functional Leadership: You motivate, inspire, and facilitate development teams, ensuring that solutions are built in accordance with the solution architectures and designs.
• Architecture Roadmap: You work closely together with other Solution Architects and the Lead Architect to co-create architecture roadmaps and a target state architecture in line with the business strategy. You monitor the execution of the architecture roadmaps by maintaining and coordinating the architecture backlog.
• Enterprise Collaboration: You actively contribute improvements to Enterprise Architecture by closely cooperating with the Enterprise Architecture Community.
• Model Maintenance: You ensure that the baseline architecture in the enterprise repository meets the DLL ArchiMate modelling standards and is always up-to-date.
• Trends Monitoring: You keep track of emerging technology trends and proactively come up with ideas on how to leverage these emerging technologies to improve Commercial Finance's IT landscape.

Day to day:

• Solution Architecture and Design: Work with the product owner and scrum team to deliver features that have clear solution architecture design and business value; as well as technical solution designs.
• Thought Leadership: Serve as a thought leader on solution architecture, staying aware of the latest technology and best market practices, and supporting and coaching fellow architects.
• Agile Delivery: Work comfortably in an Agile delivery model, ensuring fast delivery of the investment portfolio while achieving strategic objectives, this role aligns closely with developers on a scrum team.
• Quality Assurance: Be accountable for the quality of solutions by providing professional guidance and performing quality assurance activities.
• Communication: Communicate effectively with management, conveying complex processes and IT subjects in senior management terminology.
• Coaching: Coach fellow architects and developers, stimulating their professional development and driving the adoption of architecture within the team.
• Continuous Learning: Maintain an outside-in view focused on the customer, ensuring Commercial Finance's solution architecture anticipates market developments and customer needs. Stay current with industry trends, finance technologies, and architecture best practices.

All members enjoy:

• Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
• Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
• Flexible hours with possibility to work from home.

Good to know:

• Deadline for application: March 31st (Due to high volume of applications this requisition may close prior to posted close date).
• The selection process may involve an assessment.
• Applications via email will not be reviewed. Please apply online via our career website.
• DLL appreciates the time you spend applying to our openings. We advise only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted. Hiring subject to successful completion of a background check.
• DLL is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments.

About Us: DLL is a global asset finance company that partners with manufacturers, dealers, distributors, and end users to facilitate access to equipment and technology. Headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, we operate in over 25 countries, offering financial solutions across various industries. We are also a 100% subsidiary of our parent company Rabobank, one of the world's largest financial companies. Join our community of over 6,000 members from 75 nationalities!