Principal Solution Architect

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time

Principal Solution Architect
Key responsibilities
- Work with Business Stakeholders, Product Owners, Business Analysts to understand functional and non-functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams.
- Provide strategic guidance and direction to internal teams for maximising their digital marketing effectiveness
- Contribute to Customer's digital marketing strategies based on industry best practices
- Ensure all architects working in the domain understand the architecture principles, policies, and standards to produce function-specific reference architectures and solutions, and ensures all architects working in the domain adhere to these
- Manage relationships with members of Corporate Technology leadership to influence the adoption of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, standards and policies
- Maximise relationships with vendors, regulators and industry bodies to seek and adopt industry standard methodologies in enterprise architecture and technology strategy
- To be the lead architect to work with other architects to define the end-to-end solution & design covering all involved systems, data, integration, security and non-functional requirements.
- Manage the quality and work throughput of a team of architects across the Corporate technology domain to define and deliver end to end architecture solutions aligned to the strategy and roadmaps
- Ensure all solutions follow Corporate Technology and enterprise solution standards, align with the overall roadmap, have good quality documentation, and follow all relevant governance steps
- Drive and establish Centre of Excellence (CoE) for key strategic platforms in the domain, e.g. Adobe.
- Help project team to size & estimate project implementation and identify resources and skillset needed for delivery of solution.
Critical deliverables
- Deliver an effective architecture covering Customer Experience that complements the overall Corporate Technology Architecture and the central architecture strategy
- All Solution Architecture deliverables for the domain are delivered in a timely manner, to a high standard and follow appropriate governance with 100% audit trail
- Implement Corporate Technology aligned domain-based Governance Functions that feed into the Corporate Technology Architecture Review Board framework whilst enabling agile and rapid delivery of technology in line with business goals, risk and control appetite
- Support the implementation of an architectural strategy for Corporate Technology that enables transparent and action-orientated collaboration across all of CT, in order to provide clear and quick decisions to downstream teams
- A fully articulated Solution Architecture Document that includes
- Details on end to solution from a conceptual, logical and physical level
Technical/job functional knowledge
- Detailed knowledge on Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, Cloud and Security
- Detailed knowledge of operational, delivery management (including experience in a variety of delivery methodologies), business development and strategy and organisational transformation programmes
- Experienced in architecting, delivering and supporting of following:

- Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
- Adobe Analytics
- Adobe Target
- Adobe Audience Manager
- Dynamic Media and Search&Promote
- Adobe Experience Platform & CDP (Customer Data Platform)
- Drupal
- Digital and Marketing Technologies
- Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure
- Expertise and understanding in the following languages and technologies: HTML, HTML5, Java Script, XML, Java, WCM, ReactJS, AngularJS, headless CMS, services-based architecture, REST, Web analytics, content targeting
- Expertise and understanding of end-to-end DevOps tools and processes
- Knowledge of current digital marketing trends and best practices on topics such as personalisation, cross channel marketing, mobile, data-driven optimisation of experiences
- On-premise to Cloud migration projects Integration projects as a result of corporate acquisitions & mergers
- Onboarding SaaS solutions
- Appreciation of InfoSec practices as applied in a regulated environment
- Strong technical acumen
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