Senior) Solutions Architect Workplace

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**Your day at NTT DATA**

designs and the architectural vision for more complex solutions that address the clients’ needs.

**What you'll be doing**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Contributes to the development of complex solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
- Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
- Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
- Accountable for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
- Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
- Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
- Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
- Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements, including proof of concept (POC).
- Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
- Makes recommendations for the development of new go to market services and contributes knowledge on relevant verticals.
- Operates across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.
- Provides coaching and mentoring to less experienced Solutions Architects.

**Knowledge and Attributes**:

- Advanced knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s and infrastructure designs.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written coupled with excellent interpersonal skills to build solid working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to develop and leverage their advanced specialist knowledge of reference architectures.
- Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
- Ability to keep abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Advanced ability to collaborate with cross functional teams such as sales, product, delivery etc.

**Academic Qualifications and Certifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or business or a related field.
- Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
- Safe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.

**Required Experience**:

- Advanced professional technical, IT or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably multi
- national) technology services environment on the following areas: Software Development, Application Support and Infrastructure Support.
- Advanced Project or Program Management experience would be preferred but not essential.
- Advanced client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.
- Advanced experience in integrating the solution for the particular project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns and best practices.
- Advanced experience working in an agile development environment.
- Advanced experience in developing, selling and delivering technical solutions.

**Workplace type**:
Hybrid Working

**About NTT DATA**

**Equal Opportunity Employer