Company: Cathay Pacific
Closing Date: "No Closing Date Stated"
The Position:The Solution Architect is responsible for developing and governing fit-for-purpose solution designs that address the business requirements and align to the architecture strategies, roadmaps, and standards.
Key responsibilities:The Solution Architect is accountable to the Application Manager and will work as part of the architecture practice to:
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Application Manager and Business Analysts to explore business demand at pre-prioritisation stage. The work may include requirements assessment, solution planning, prototyping and impact analysis
- View package-based business solutions holistically to ensure seamless integration with other application / infrastructure components
- Work closely with application and infrastructure project teams to focus on high level designs and conceptual designs for project delivery. Analyse enterprise business context (trends and business strategy), as well as project-specific requirements to guide solution architecture by leveraging all aspects (eg. business, information and technology infrastructure) of enterprise architecture
- Develop and analyse solution options based on business demand, Enterprise Architecture and balanced comparison of functional capabilities, non-functional capabilities, risk, cost and benefits
- Consult with Enterprise Architects and project teams to harmonise systems or infrastructure with the enterprise architecture. Identify when the enterprise architecture cannot accommodate project needs. Drive discussions among Enterprise Architects and projects teams to agree on the solution architecture.
- Ensure solution architecture design work is documented in a structured fashion matching the EA framework. Facilitate sharing of the artifacts to drive reuse.
- Construct and promote application / infrastructure development and deployment standards and guidelines.
- Provide consultancy on performance optimisation for new and existing solutions, in particular during production fire-fighting situations.
- Understand, advocate and augment the business and IT strategies specifically on EA development and service delivery. Be prepared to educate project team members (including business users) on the value of EA and principles that guide technology decisions for the enterprise.
- Keep abreast of the latest trends in technology, ensure timely exploration and proactively communicate IM’s position towards the introduction of relevant / key emerging technologies. Modify the EA to accommodate near-term and long-term needs.
- Collaborate with the Technology & Architecture team to drive business and technology innovation to achieve corporate strategic plans and objectives.
- Work with the Architecture Practice Lead to develop, monitor and continuously improve the Solution Architecture discipline
Job Requirements :- University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related disciplines
- Minimum 7 years of IT experience with at least 4 years hands-on project solution architecture experience
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environment
- Ability to think conceptually and simplify complex problems through abstraction
- Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders up to the executive level
- Ability to translate business needs into solution architecture requirements
- Ability to define multiple solution options to business problems
- Knowledge of the differences between enterprise and solution architecture
- Understanding of application development methodologies, SOA, object-oriented analysis and design, or client/server systems
- Understanding of financial models and budgeting
- Passion and ability to learn new technologies
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