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Job Description
DEPARTMENT
Software Delivery
JOB TITLE
Solutions Architect REPORTS TO
Principle Solutions
(Data &
Architect (Data &
Applications)
Applications)
The Solutions Architecture team within Software Delivery is focussed
on the Data and Applications architecture domains, working closely
with Business and Infrastructure Architects to provide an Enterprise
Architecture capability within the society.
The main purposes of the Solutions Architecture team are:
 To improve business and IT efficiency and agility through:
 The provision of cost effective, flexible solutions aligned to desired
business outcomes
 Facilitating the understanding of our existing estate through the
creation and maintenance of high quality reference architecture
 To define and maintain architectural principles and policies and
work with software development to improve standards and
frameworks that guide change activity.
 To provide a solid framework within which software change activity
is undertaken through:
 The definition and maintenance of architectural principles and
policies
 Collaboration with the software development teams to define and
maintain development standards
 To deliver architectural designs for change activity aligned to
Society and IT strategies, ensuring adherence to architectural
principles and policies.
 To provide assurance over software change activity through the
governance of fine grained software designs.
For significant change initiatives:
 Collaborate with Business and Infrastructure Architects to facilitate
a cohesive approach to architectural change
 Prepare coarse grained architecture definitions for application and
data domains (baseline, gap and target states) for all appropriate
solution options
 Provide gap, risk and complexity analysis for all appropriate
solution options
 Communicate all options to appropriate stakeholders to form
recommendations for the final solution
 Present options to Enterprise Architecture Working Group with
recommendations for the way forward
 Govern the fine grained application and data design delivered by
software developers
 Involvement in the creation and maintenance of course grained
reference architecture for application and data domains within our
current estate
 Involvement in the creation and maintenance of architectural
procedures and policies (i.e. tactical statements directing
architectural changes in line with the architectural principles) within
the application and data domains
 Involvement in the establishment and maintainenance of a view
point library (within the application and data domains) to guide the
creation of architectural artefacts
 Involvement in the promotion of quality standards and
development frameworks
 Involvement in the development of and adherence to departmental
MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
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INTERNAL & EXTERNAL
RELATIONSHIPS
QUALIFICATIONS,
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
RESPONSIBILITIES FOR
RESOURCES
HUMAN/FINANCIAL/
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procedures
 Provision of support to Software Delivery and Change Delivery
colleagues.
 Research of new systems and technologies and evaluation of
suitability for use by the society.
 To maintain the highest standard of integrity in all business
 Maintain the highest standard of integrity in all business
relationships
 All Society colleagues are required to pay due regard to the
interests of its customers and treat them fairly.
 To maintain full awareness of and conformance with all IT and
information security policies and procedures
 Ensure sensitive and confidential data is managed appropriately at
all times, encrypted and password protected as directed by policies
 Ensure potential or actual breaches of IT and information security
policies and procedures are escalated immediately
INTERNAL
 All levels of employees up to Chief Executive, these contacts
involve discussing and agreeing proposed and reference
architectures.
EXTERNAL
 Consultants, development staff from other companies, staff from
third party providers
 Excellent stakeholder management skills across all levels of the
business
 Ability to quickly analyse and communicate the implications of
developing new functionality in terms of impact, risk, time and cost.
 Experience in designing robust scalable solutions incorporating
multiple applications and data sources.
 Ability to construct and deconstruct complex systems to provide
information to stakeholders with different concerns.
 A broad technological understanding of languages, frameworks,
design patterns and architectural strategies.
 A Solutions Architect is expected to have a high degree of
expertise in several of the above skills. They should also be
proficient in:
 Microsoft Office products
 Microsoft Viso
 Full Development Lifecycle
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