Job Description

Job Summary
As a Principal Solutions Architect- GenAI you will be expected to lead the end-to-end architecture design and technical governance across GenAI platforms. Own the integration blueprint, platform modernization strategy, and technical governance to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant solutions that deliver value whilst remain at the forefront of relevant technical advances. Ensure all solutions meet enterprise architecture standards, security, data privacy, and AI governance compliance. This necessitates engagement at the strategic enterprise level while also taking full responsibility for the solution architectures implemented by individual projects and programmes including leading platform roadmap with technology partners like AWS, Microsoft and internal stakeholders.
In this role, you will:

• Lead the definition and governance of new corporate and portfolio IT standards, guidelines and practices by analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards.
• Scout market and track technology advancements and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape. Showcase business value by executing Proof of Concepts by engaging relevant IT teams.
• Lead the solution architecture development for new initiatives, vendor solution acquisitions, and enhancement of existing systems, taking full responsibility for the quality of the architecture, including integration architecture by aligning to agile architecture development practices. Drive architecture decisions and be accountable for their implications in regard to solution costs, delivery schedules, application complexity, technical debt and overall solution performance.
• Provide expert advice and lead solution design reviews to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of architectural standards and patterns.
• Provide architecture and technology leadership to development teams by playing the lead architect/ driver role in Teams of Teams or Agile/ Release Trains. In addition, be accountable for the overall architecture, solution discoveries, and strategic incubations by coordinating with peer architects and engineering teams
• Manage, direct, inspire and coach the work and capability of Solutions Architect and Senior Engineering resources as required, and engage in, and lead, a much wider virtual team of senior managers, technical and subject matter experts and business managers.
• Own, manage and maintain the architecture roadmap and runways of complex/large projects, technical products, environments and/or platforms. Act as a product owner and be accountable for proactively identifying, prioritizing, and overseeing the development of technical enablers, technical debts, quality improvements, and application modernization activities.

Qualification
To be considered for the role you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent IT related discipline.
• Minimum of 8 years experience in IT architecture
• Technical leadership in leading a group of technical architects and senior developers. Ability to influence delivery plans based on architecture and skills constraints.
• Comprehensive understanding of one or more technologies such as Java, ERP, Cloud, open source frameworks, low code platforms, Big data, BI, data warehouses, observability, automation, network and infrastructure, mobile & frontend technologies, AI/ML, container management platforms, database, integration, digital workplace, DevOps., IoT, Blockchain, web 3.0, contact centre, service management platforms, messaging, cyber security etc.
• Understanding of agile software development methodologies such as SCRUM and Scaled Agile, and industry standard software modelling techniques such as ArchiMate, C4 and UML
• Knowledge in architecture patterns such as microservices, event -driven architecture, cloud native applications and well architected framework for cloud and on-premises deployments. Knowledge in major systems architecture is needed to ensure that a robust and scalable solution is developed
• Significant experience of major systems architecture is needed to ensure that a robust and scalable solution is developed

Skills Required