Cloud Solution Architect

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and regularly maintain a future-state Domain and /or ICT vision in line with the organisation's Business and IT Strategies - as well as the roadmap for transforming between current and future Domain vision and or ICT vision

• Govern the development and ongoing review and update of the organisation's Domain Principles

• Govern the Architecture Review Board and the regular meeting of this board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with ICT Principles, ICT Standards and Future State Vision

• Participate in the Architecture Review Board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with Domain Principles, Standards and Future State Vision

• Governance of Innovation Ideation and the promotion of innovation ideas to Proof of Concept and Pilot Projects

• Work with operational teams to determine opportunities for improvement and define business requirements.

• Ensure continuous alignment between architectural delivery and the operational implementation and integrity of IT systems.

• Provide leadership and vision for the optimisation and rationalisation of ICT infrastructure - aimed at increasing capability and/or IT cost savings and/or IT Service Levels.

• Provide an Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence capability to the organisation

• Provide mentorship and coaching to all Architecture teams within the organisation

• Develop and regularly review and where necessary recommend updates to the organisation's Domain standards the organisation's IT Strategy and the on-going maintenance thereof w.r.t. emerging technology utilisation

• Facilitate the organisation's knowledge and understanding of current and emerging technology - and how it can be leveraged for maximum business benefit

• Calculate the organisation's Domain Technical Debt and ensure this is regularly communicated to the Head of Architecture

• Pro-actively recommend changes to Domain implementations to introduce new functionality, reduce IT Cost or improve levels of Service

• Calculate Business Cases and Impact Assessments for emerging technology deployments to meet business need as directed by Business demand,

• Facilitate regular Innovation Days and Innovation Workshops for detailed understanding of emerging technology capability

• Assist in the development of Cloud Solution Architectures requiring Domain technologies and ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains

• Identifies the risk of proposed change impact and develops mitigating actions to enable Enterprise wide solutions

• Monitor emerging cloud trends and evaluates their potential impact on the broader organisation

• Ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains

• Conduct Issue/Dispute resolution across Architectural disciplines

• Lead the achievement of Cloud Architecture Solution across multiple disciplines and domains

• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values

• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Solid knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OSs and infrastructure designs

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

• Knowledgeable on how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with relevant methodologies and frameworks

• Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures

• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Qualification in Information Technology or Information Systems

• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.)

• SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous

• AWS, Azure

Originally posted on Himalayas