Toa Payoh - Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Select and apply appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with the agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensure that these are effectively applied and adopted.
• Guide successful implementation and execution of system solutions.
• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the planning and operations processes.
• Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Provides pre-sales technical support and expertise in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current infrastructure, architecture, system capabilities and business challenges.
• Ensure technical solutions accomplish the client’s objectives.
• Work with Solutions Architects (SAs) to produce a technical specification for the solution’s custom development and systems integration requirements.
• Develop the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
• Lead the scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses and assist with the decision to pursue or abort a deal.
• Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which require appropriation of appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Demonstrate seasoned product knowledge integrated with seasoned technology understanding
• Seasoned understanding of the vendor’s products, business and technology positioning
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written coupled with the ability to establish and create excellent client relationships with their technical expertise.
• Ability to develop and leverage their seasoned knowledge of reference architectures.
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
• Seasoned knowledge in core frameworks used.
• Seasoned knowledge of the problem domain that their systems are to provide solutions for
• Basic understanding of key vendor subscription models such as Cisco EA 3.0

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or information systems or a related field.
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• Relevant vendor and industry certifications, for example, Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle.
• Software and programming languages, for example, C++.
• SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.

Required Experience:

• Seasoned track record as a developer and architect of new systems/solutions.
• Seasoned work experience working as a systems administrator or network engineer.
• Seasoned client engagement and development consulting experience.
• Seasoned experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints.
• Seasoned experience in a variety of architectures for specific domain or specialization.
• Seasoned experienced designer and development know-how.
• Seasoned project management experience ensuring timeous delivery of client solutions.
• Experience presenting technical solutions to non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.