Regional Solution Architect
Key Accountabilities
Lead / contribute to:
- Documenting and maintaining solution architectures.
- Ensuring that solutions are strategically aligned with enterprise architecture and business requirements for the project, ensuring fit for purpose and alignment with overall strategy and architecture standards.
- Developing solution recommendations for the proposed solution, producing a solution architecture and architecture design.
- Reviewing and signing off on outcome of detailed design phase during the project (e.g. design, build, test, and implementation).
- Undertaking analysis of application technology options and associated costs, conduct fit-gap analysis, and proof of concepts for new business systems solutions, as appropriate.
- Assessing the alignment of proposed solution architecture to architecture principles.
- Leveraging knowledge of new technology options and tools to identify and create business improvement opportunity.
- Using cross industry insight (e.g. best practices, trends, innovation) to assist in the design and development of solution architecture in BAT.
- Liaising with stakeholders to clarify details of requirements.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- A proven all-round Solution Architect who has experience working across different functions within IT e.g. Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Digital, and is not overly specialized in one function.
- Regional or Global project experience
- A Solution Architect who is enthusiastic to learn, push forward, develop and grow their career at BAT
- Open-minded, out of the box thinker
- Experience in application, data & information and technology strategy and design.
- Experience in solution architecture methods and tools with good appreciation of Enterprise architecture methods and tools.
- Experience and understanding of the challenges associated with the business operating model of a global organization.
- Change Management and Business Engagement Skills.
- Facilitation, Influencing and Negotiation Skills.
- Effective Communication and Relationship Management at all levels.
- Understanding or experience of Architecture Frameworks i.e. TOGAF.
- Robust teamwork demonstrated both inside and outside the IT functions.
