This is a fantastic opportunity to join a global company to work with industry leading technologists and technology and help shape the future of mobile and IOT products.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end Architecture Strategy/Roadmap and Design of the product/ solutions. Sets and drives the architecture strategy/roadmap for the group
  • Drives adoption of the strategic architecture, balancing the outcomes needed of the tribes (including transition states)
  • Guides on the technical shaping and feasibility estimates for epics and features, identifying major dependencies
  • Inputs the roadmap content into overall Business architecture roadmap and strategy
• Responsible for consistent Business Architecture that aligns across the business
• Responsible for bringing together other subdomains
• Architecture Demand
• Drive engineering excellence, quality assurance
• Ensure product/solution architecture meets the nonfunctional requirements:
  • Performance – Ensure the continued uptime/reliability, integrity, performance and maintenance of solutions
  • Security – Ensures security by design and security compliance
  • Economics – Optimizes the TCO of the architecture, ensuring the affordability of the IT with the sub-domain architect
  • Modernisation – Ensure the group is following Cloud native guardrails and modernizing the relevant components
• Re-usable patterns and Low-Level Designs – Leads the creation of innovative and repeatable solution architectures to resolve the most complex solution architecture problems and meet agreed requirements, reusable patterns catalogued and aligned to business capabilities
• Stakeholder engagement
• Resource Planning
• SME – Operates as an SME within own field of expertise and acts as expert advisor to other teams and senior management on the most complex architecture related issues.
• Customer Centric – Promotes and adopts empathy driven design for customer centric products.
• Inputs into financial planning process to ensure the relevant funding needed to advance the architecture is requested and identify where lack of funding is slowing the overall architecture rollout down.
• Set vision and direction for how mobile architecture should evolve, incorporating reuse for IoT portfolio.

Required experience

• Mandatory: 5 years+ experience in a senior architecture role.
• Mandatory: Very strong stakeholder management experience from junior developer through to CEO.
• Mandatory: Experience creating roadmaps for a domain or group
• Preferred: Experience of Agile planning, SAFE framework
• Preferred: TOGAF certified