Digital/technical Architect in London

ITC Infotech is looking for a Technical Architect to join our team across the UK, London, Leeds and Edinburgh.

Aptitude: You have an innate capacity to transition from project to project without skipping a beat.

Communication: You have excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordination across projects and teams.

The Technical Architect role sits within Technology - Strategy & Architecture - Enterprise Architecture Consulting, responsible for the overall architecture for the FCA’s business divisions. This includes quality assurance of architectural decisions, technical designs and other architectural deliverables, such as designing and producing architectural artefacts for end-to-end solutions, high-level outlined architecture to detailed solution architecture, including required integration, that are aligned to architecture standards, meet the business vision and requirements, and take into consideration all risks, costs, benefits, limitations, dependencies, deliverability and impact on the enterprise, technology and business architectures.

Supporting and guiding project teams and product groups in delivery and implementation of end-to-end solutions. Playing a key role in the development and implementation of the FCA’s Digital and Data Strategies, by ensuring solutions adhere to and enable the implementation of strategies.

Collaborating with product groups and enterprise architecture functions on defining enterprise and product architecture strategies and standards, building product roadmaps and resolving maintenance and post-go-live issues.

Reviewing and quality assuring artefacts created by external suppliers and internal teams (Product Groups and Change Delivery teams) to ensure the quality of the delivered solution fulfils business and non-functional requirements and adheres to the strategic vision of the FCA.

Experience:

• As a Technical/Solution Architect designing products, platforms, systems and components on multiple programmes and projects.
• Working on the end-to-end project lifecycle, in a multi-technology environment.
• Designing and implementing digital and/or data platform solutions.
• Working with AWS technologies.
• Best practice solution architecture across all architecture domains and key platform technologies (Salesforce, O365, SharePoint, Cloud technologies, Data analysis and Data management tools, Integration technologies).
• Commercial awareness and hands-on experience at costing solution options, understanding procurement frameworks and promoting cost-effective solutions.
• Technical and environment interdependencies across projects and programmes.
• Formal architectural methodologies and frameworks, including TOGAF, architecture modelling tools and agile methodologies.
• Continuous professional development and engagement with industry innovators and professional bodies.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Stakeholder engagement, communication and relationship management.
• Driving and managing resolution of technical dependencies and technical do-ability issues including identifying viable alternatives and agreeing those with architecture governance.
• Reviewing and quality assuring artefacts created by external suppliers and internal teams to ensure the quality of the delivered solution.

Personal Qualities:

• Collaborative and influential.
• Ability to work independently, facilitate and lead where needed.
• Flexibility in approach.
• Critical thinker and problem solver.
• Comfortable working with strategic ambiguity.

ITC Infotech is a leading global technology services and solutions provider, led by Business and Technology Consulting. ITC Infotech provides business-friendly solutions to help clients succeed and be future-ready, by seamlessly bringing together digital expertise, strong industry-specific alliances and the unique ability to leverage deep domain expertise from ITC Group businesses. We provide technology solutions and services to enterprises across industries such as Banking & Financial Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Travel and Hospitality, through a combination of traditional and newer business models, as a long-term sustainable partner.

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