Lead Digital Architect

2 months ago

Potters Bar, United Kingdom Canada Life Full time

**Job Title: Lead Digital Architect**
**Location: Potters Bar, London, Bristol or Isle of Man (Hybrid working available)**
**Type: Permanent**

**About you**

You understand that achieving these goals involves developing innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems. You enjoy working with a diverse range of technologies and understand the need to consider the human as well as technical aspectsof the choices we make.

**Job summary**

You will report directly to our Head of Architecture. Working with our business and technology teams, you’ll work to understand our customers, our business, our technology and bring this together into a coherent technology strategy. You’ll collaborate acrossthe organisation to develop roadmaps to achieve this strategy, and you’ll actively support teams to deliver on these roadmaps over time.
You’ll make pragmatic, smart choices that allow us to deliver value at every step of the way, and you’ll act as an evangelist and advocate of our strategy, helping to build excitement and momentum as we deliver.

**What you’ll do**
- Work with Business Analysts, Architects, Senior IT and Business Managers to understand the business’s strategy and information technology needs. Proposes solutions to meet the strategy.
- Producing strategies for technology that meets business needs.
- Assesses the architectural impact and implications of business or technology changes that are being contemplated and make recommendations.
- Assess future initiatives, providing insight on feasibility and probable technology directions.
- Support the annual budget process by estimating technology and project delivery costs and effort.
- Create the vision that guides the creation of the solution from inception through delivery
- Ensure that all aspects of the solutions align to technology roadmaps.
- Assess new technology coming into the company.
- Review the project architectures for projects delivering within their business area and supports the architectures at CLUK TDA or any other governing body.
- Ensure architectural compliance to development, security or Infrastructure standards across their Business Area
- Partner with delivery teams and project sponsors to ensure projects delivered to the agreed quality.
- Provide input to the creation of the project deliverables across the business domain.
- Provide mentorship and coaching to other architects
- Able to produce and review estimates, ensuring that they represent a deliverable and commercially-viable solution.
- Works with the procurement team and vendors to co-ordinate the selection and implementation of products, if applicable

**Who you are**
- Extensive professional experience as an Lead Digital Architect (Technology Domain) with exposure to the Data, Application and Business Domains
- Capable of making and guiding effective choices, explaining clearly how the conclusion was reached. The ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
- Able to work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into technical designs. Creates an optimal design through an iterative process, aligning the user need with the system requirements and organisational objectives.
- Able to look beyond the immediate technical problem and identify the wider implications. 'Zooming out’ in multiple dimensions - knowing relevant historical context and future impact, understanding how current work fits in broader contexts and strategies,and looking for deeper underlying problems and opportunities.
- Understands technical governance and is able to participate in or deliver the assurance of a service. This capability becomes increasingly critical at senior role levels.
- Capable of producing strategy for technology that meets business needs. Able to create, refine and evaluate patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. Senior roles tend to be more proactive as they set the strategy. Junior roles tendto be more reactive, responding to the strategy.

**Skills**
- Experience of Digital Experience Platforms.
- Knowledge and experience of multiple integration and API enablement technologies.
- Knowledge of Customer Data Platforms and their deployment within enterprises.
- Experience of Architecting Web and Mobile Apps.
- Experience in Microservices and Miniservices.
- Experience on Cloud Data solutions in the context of Digital Service.
- Experience of Telecom Domain Systems.
- People Management - Extensive leadership and management skills, ability to influence others through strong collaboration while maintaining effective relationships.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to negotiate and resolve conflicting priorities and able to work effectively at all levels
- Self-directed, proactive, works on own initiative with a best practice approach.
- Excellent facilitation skills, high energy and resilience with a focus on relationship management and driving successful outcomes
- Strong logical and critical thinking skills, has the ability to simplify and resolve complex human and technology problems
- Degree level qualification in computer science or equivalent useful but not required
- Significant experience in technology leadership roles
- Desirable experience of strategic domain driven design, datamesh architectures.

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