JOB PURPOSE: SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE SPECIALIST
Translates business vision and strategy into effective architecture design or change. Focus on creating and continuously improving and updating, according to industry standards, the key insights (requirements, principles, models) that describe Transaction Junction’s future state and enable evolution and transformation. To improve the organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and agility by delivering business‐aligned future states and roadmaps to achieve that vision to leadership for system-related architecture.

RESPONSIBILITIES

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE PLANNING AND EXECUTION

• Solutions Architecture Specliast defines the target system architectures, and the roadmaps and timescales for these system architectures to ensure the most effective use of technology solutions and digital services across the business.
• Develop and optimise the application landscape.
• Act as design authority and provide an assurance role, ensuring that all system architecture activities and deliverables (in-house and external outsourced) are produced to a high quality and are consistent with existing standards, policies and strategies
• Deliver high quality implementation of the defined solution to facilitate realization of organisational benefit.
• Be responsible for the determination and promulgation of the appropriate frameworks, standards, libraries and approach to be adopted, in the translation of this system architecture into working code; and to keep these up-to-date.
• Develop system strategies and roadmaps in collaboration with Business Leadership.

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE GOVERNANCE

• The Solutions Architecture Specialist manages the appropriate governance forums to ensure the agreement and maintenance of the overall architecture of the organisation and ensure that the process delivers strategic imperatives.
• Provide system architectural insight for enterprise and IT‐level strategy formation.
• Execute and improve a light‐weight architectural governance model to ensure that architecturally impactful decisions are kept during the course of project implementation.
• Create and collect architectural descriptions for the systems and strategy, operations, and information.
• Builds and delivers roadmaps with Head of Product and Demand, GM: Solution Delivery and other key stakeholders.

BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

• Inform and advise business sponsors on strategic and operational opportunities for improvement and develop roadmaps that illustrate feasible approaches to achieve them.
• Ensure that system architecturally relevant issues are aired, the Transaction Junction ecosystem of customers, partners, and employees are considered and that decisions are made and documented among business and IT stakeholders.
• Provide clear vision for strategic requirements that span Transaction Junction, providing models of future state, with roadmaps that steer the implementation of change initiatives.
• Accountable for ensuring that architecturally relevant (long term) decisions are made, documented, signed off, and then, by governance, kept.

LEADERSHIP

• Through effective inspirational leadership, facilitate the creation of accountable, full service teams who understand and strive to meet the needs of all stakeholders.
• Role model behavior and motivate team members in line with the core values.
• Take full responsibility for performance of all direct reports, motivating and managing them in relation to quality standards and agreed benchmarks and objectives, focusing on all aspects of sound people management.
• Provide support and guidance on career path planning, on-the-job training, coaching and mentoring to direct reports.

SELF-MANAGEMENT

• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures.
• Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change.
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities
  to understand and respond to organizational needs.

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

DRIVES VISION AND PURPOSE
Paints a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action.

CUSTOMER FOCUS
Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.

CULTIVATES INNOVATION
Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful.

INSTILLS TRUST
Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.

COLLABORATES
Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

SITUATIONAL ADAPTABILITY
Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.

BUSINESS INSIGHT

Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.

MANAGES COMPLEXITY
Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

PLANS AND ALIGNS
Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

BALANCES STAKEHOLDERS
Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.

TECH SAVVY
Anticipates and adopts innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.

ENSURES ACCOUNTABILITY
Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.

INTERPERSONAL SAVVY
Solution Architecture Specialist relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.

EDUCATION

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology / Enterprise Architecture or related discipline

EXPERIENCE

• Extensive practical Enterprise Architecture experience certified with a recognised EA framework
• Minimum 7 years’ experience within similar role