Technical Design Architect – Role Description
Location:
State of Guernsey
Division:
IT Guernsey Service Delivery
Reports into:
Enterprise Architect
Grade:
SC
The way we work reflects the values at the heart of our business:
Partnership, we become one team and family with organisations, helping them to navigate change and stay agile.
Integrity, our people really care, going beyond the brief to make change happen for organisations and citizens.
Innovation, we bring together the right technologies and services to design solutions that work.
Passion, we are passionate about — and dedicated to — public services and improving people’s lives.
Role Description
Agilisys Guernsey is seeking an assertive and innovative Technical Design Architect with extensive experience working across multiple clients and platforms in the private and public sector, delivering a broad range of technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities
You will be a clear, confident, and professional communicator with the ability to communicate and interact with clients, stakeholders, senior management, and colleagues. You will have a broad understanding of IT systems, architectures, and infrastructures with the ability to translate these into innovative and effective solutions to business needs. In addition, to play a lead role in complex projects and implementations.
- To work with our IT Professional and Transformation Services teams to translate Business Technology and Products Strategy into solutions for our diverse client base in the UK
- Review solution delivery with the Agilisys Design Authority and Project Management to ensure compliance with defined strategy and architecture and assess the impact of deviations
- Champion the use of good design principles and ensure that non-functional requirements such as scalability, security, availability, reliability, and performance are addressed
- Communicate complex IT architecture in business terms to internal and external stakeholders at all levels and explain how solutions/strategies address their current and future needs
- Mentor and coach less experienced team members, embedding the technical architecture strategy in their thinking and delivery, and encourage collaborative sharing of best practices and design patterns
- Support and encourage innovation through continuous review and appraisal of the developments in technology and assess how these will impact our solutions, business and architecture strategy
- Assist with bids for new work and build business cases for new technology implementations
- Providing support and advice within project environments
- Maintains knowledge of IT infrastructure architecture, standards and practices and consistently applies these standards
- Ensure that Target architectures are flexible and support the business needs by maintaining an understanding of business strategies and infrastructure capabilities
- Create and maintain technical documentation to facilitate efficient planning, execution, and handover into BAU
What we are looking for
- Proven experience architecting and delivering solutions within large scale IT projects and environments
- Experience in public and private cloud environments; big data analytics; building scalable and extensible platforms using services and micro-services
- Significant experience in hands-on Solutions Architect roles
- Experience in leading and shaping architecture resources, capabilities, and strategy
- Experience in understanding and creating commercial models and their practical application.
- Experience and good understanding of managing multiple, complex client relationships
- Solid experience and understanding of IT governance processes
- Demonstrable experience in design documentation and presentation
- Successfully presents technical information to a non-technical audience
- Flexible with off island travel
- Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
- Proven sales and demonstration capabilities
- Extensive knowledge of, but not limited to, UML, TOGAF, n-Tier technologies and architectures, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud architectures
