Lead, Solution Architecture, Finance

This role will serve as the Solution Architect for Group Finance within Group Functions TTO. The Solution Architect will be part of the wider Functions Architecture Team and work closely with the various Domain Technology Teams to drive architecture strategy, roadmap, governance and provide architecture guidance. The role is expected to bring together business understanding and technology thought leadership to drive solution and design excellence in the respective domains.

Strategy
• Responsible for Solution Architecture for Group Finance within Group Functions TTO
• Responsible to work with other Solution Architects across Functions Architecture and Group Architecture to ensure that Group and Functions Architecture Strategies are executed within the area of responsibility.
• Responsible to work with Application Architects and Project Team to ensure that solutions are aligned to wider Functions/Group Architecture Strategy, Policy and Standards.
• Responsible to work with Application Architects, Project Team and Vendors to ensure that Patterns and Best Practices are being considered and applied appropriately.
• Responsible to work with Application Architects, Project Team and Vendors to understand and review Vendor product architecture and capabilities.

Business
• Responsible to collaborate with Business and Technology stakeholders (such as Technology Domain Heads and Global Heads, Domain Architect and Chief Architect) to drive alignment between Business, Architecture and Technology Strategies.
• Responsible to tech simplification to simplify technology estate, driving efficiency by identifying opportunities to rationalise to a fewer best of breed platforms which provides strategic business capability and aggressively decommission redundant applications.
• Contribute to investment planning/prioritisation with the businesses and T&I.
• Driving and enable cloud adoption and modernisation of technology landscape across respective domains whilst balancing regulatory requirements like data sovereignty and cloud approvals and data security.

Processes
• Responsible to review and ensure projects are implemented in line with approved architecture/target architecture.
• Responsible to work with Application Architects and Project teams on evaluations and Proof of Concepts for new technologies and other strategic technology initiatives
• Responsible to contribute to development of architecture strategy and standards for the organization
• Responsible for creating, maintaining or reviewing Domain/Sub-Domain level architecture documentation in the area of responsibility.
• Responsible for Reviewing Application / Project level architecture documentation from Application Architect/Project Team.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with architecture processes and any related deliverables or artifacts at the Domain/Sub-domain level are completed/met