Solution Architect

The global Commercial Finance domain is seeking a Solution Architect to join our dynamic team! As a Solution Architect, you guide development teams in realizing innovative solutions that enhance our Commercial Finance operations by providing architectural guidance.

You collect business requirements and translate these into process, application, information, and technology architecture that you document into solution architectures and design. You ensure that the right stakeholders are involved and that the architecture is within the guidance of the Enterprise Architecture Framework.

You motivate, inspire, and facilitate development teams, ensuring that solutions are built in accordance with the solution architectures and designs.

You work closely together with other Solution Architects and the Lead Architect to co-create architecture roadmaps and a target state architecture in line with the business strategy. You monitor the execution of the architecture roadmaps by maintaining and coordinating the architecture backlog.

You actively contribute improvements to Enterprise Architecture by closely cooperating with the Enterprise Architecture Community.

You ensure that the baseline architecture in the enterprise repository meet the DLL Archi Mate modelling standards and is always up-to-date.

You keep track of emerging technology trends and proactively come up with ideas on how to leverage these emerging technologies to improve Commercial Finance’s IT landscape.

Find out more here about how you can unleash your full potential at DLL

• Solution Architecture and Design:
  
  Work with the product owner and scrum team to deliver features that have clear solution architecture design and business value; as well as technical solution designs.
• Thought Leadership:
  
  Serve as a thought leader on solution architecture, staying aware of the latest technology and best market practices, and supporting and coaching fellow architects.
• Agile Delivery:
  
  Work comfortably in an Agile delivery model, ensuring fast delivery of the investment portfolio while achieving strategic objectives, this role aligns closely with developers on a scrum team.
• Quality Assurance:
  
  Be accountable for the quality of solutions by providing professional guidance and performing quality assurance activities.
• Communication:
  
  Communicate effectively with management, conveying complex processes and IT subjects in senior management terminology.
• Coaching:
  
  Coach fellow architects and developers, stimulating their professional development and driving the adoption of architecture within the team.
• Continuous Learning:
  
  Maintain an outside-in view focused on the customer, ensuring Commercial Finance’s solution architecture anticipates market developments and customer needs.

• Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
• Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
• Flexible hours with possibility to work from home
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“We not only live up to the expectations of our customers for today, but also anticipate their market needs of tomorrow.”

• 3+ years of experience as a solution architect.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Information Science or related technical field.
• Excellent communication in speech and writing in English.
• Broad understanding of strategy and architecture modelling standards.
• Thorough understanding of financial industry including business models and processes. Familiarity with Inventory Finance is a pre.
• Experience in working in Agile/scrum environments.
• Experience with microservices architecture, SOAP and RESTful (API) services.
• Experience with application development on cloud platforms like Azure.
• Experience with Business Process Management applications like PEGA.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and protocols such as the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
• Knowledge of SQL and No
  
  SQL database management.

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