Position: Senior Solution Architect
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

One of the biggest UK rail network companies operating with rail infrastructure and asset management has a need to develop and support enterprise-level information systems.

A successful candidate would:
- Provide expert design advice to capital programmes and projects,
- Ensuring specified design is reflected in funding allocation to programmes and individual projects.
- Contribute advice as a project team member of programmes and projects. - Manage stakeholders;
- Produce, finalise and approve all documentation for your projects;
- Apply experience and lessons learnt to ensure procurements keep to programme.

Familiarity/experience in BI/MI, MDM, Data, Reporting platform migrations, data governance, Power BI and Azure Services desirable
Responsibilities:
- Act as the design authority for projects and programmes, responsible for the compilation of the high-level architecture to support programmes and their constituent projects based on the strategic vision.

- Design solutions directly for Route Services Information Technology customers in the business, and check that the solutions built align with the as-is and to-be technical infrastructure.

- Develop solution designs in line with RSIT strategy, standards and definitions allowing for the appropriate integration of enterprise interfaces, data and systems at a strategic level.

- Set technical standards for development of the applications solution.
Engage colleagues in other areas of RSIT to verify that the proposed design fits in with existing/proposed infrastructure, and where non-conformant, reconfigure or seek exception approval.

- Manage stakeholder understanding and expectations regarding the application design; confirming functionality meets business needs.

- Use agreed application design to act as an informed buyer for applications development from third parties; validating specifications and commercial constraints are clearly communicated and understood.

- Direct third-party resources to develop the application, acting as a point of clarification for complex design issues verifying that the end product remains on time, cost and quality target.

- Verifying that programme/project related applications knowledge is shared appropriately in order to drive re-use of data, processes and technology where appropriate.
Mandatory Skills Description:
- Extensive experience of working as a Technical Architect in a corporate IS function
- Experience of delivering architecture components / compliance within an environment where systems and services are delivered via outsourced arrangements with key suppliers
- Enterprise integration concepts and technologies
- Middleware concepts and technologies
- Web concepts and technologies CASE/Modelling tools
- Networking and Operating system concepts & technologies
- Willing and able to work in multi-disciplinary teams (RSIT colleagues, business functions, suppliers etc.) to resolve business issues and problems in a collaborative fashion
Nice-to-Have Skills:
- Development experience within a web-based environment
- Data Management concepts and technology
- Process Management and workflow concepts & technologies
- Development lifecycles and notations covering structured, object and component-based approaches (e.g. IE, DSDM, RUP, UML)
- Document, Content and/or Digital Asset Management concepts and technologies
- Knowledge of specific applications
Languages:
English: C1 Advanced