India - Solution Architect

• Provide end-to-end solution designs and architecture at the product/segment level keeping broad enterprise vision in mind.
• Collaboratively maintain and propose changes to the design, architecture and technology standards, principles, framework, and guardrails.
• Ensure architectural standards, governance, and principles are implemented effectively by auditing assigned IT programs, projects, products, and small works.
• Optimise deliverables for business value realisation, considering reusability of solutions, architectural building blocks, components, and designs.
• Review new and existing designs against architectural standards and principles.
• Ensure Business Impact Assessment, Business Continuity and DR processes are standardised, resilient and tested to meet the agreed business requirements.
• Assess new technologies for effectiveness and better cost-to-value for business problems.

Key accountabilities

• Work in collaboration with stakeholder groups, providing technical guidance and support to ensure the successful and cost-effective delivery of projects.
• Design and develop robust, scalable solutions that align with architectural principles and best practices and consider each of the BDAT domains (Business, Data, Application, and Technology).
• Solution development based on existing technology stack to limit technological creep. The Inchcape ecosystem is mostly AWS, C# and React. Services are loosely coupled and integrated mainly through REST interfaces.
• Ensure the architecture aligns with business goals and objectives, providing a clear path for future scalability and integration.
• Identify and assess new technology for potential adoption within ISS.
• Create feasibility study and proofs of concept for given business problems.
• Align architecture with the business strategy, IT strategy and product delivery roadmaps.
• Management and governance of technology bricks and technical debt, for hardware and software used in production and non-production environments.