Solution Architect Marketing

We are looking for someone who has design leadership experience across multiple projects/programs.

Marketing domain experience and a sound understanding of Enterprise & Solution Architecture. A reasonable level of IT experience being 10-15 years.

Rate: as per market

Key Responsibilities
Interfaces with Business Relationship Managers and Systems Architects, providing technical and functional expertise to provide vision, oversight and coordination across portfolio of technical solutions being developed in a business capability domain. Develops, maintains, and communicates processes and standard practices related to the high-level design, development, and implementation of solutions across portfolio of projects and enhancements in the domain. Ensures solutions meet business needs along with architecturally significant functional and nonfunctional requirements.

Helps to ensure outside partners are educated on approved technical solutions and works with those partners to ensure requirements are met.

Scope of Activities

The Solutions Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions:
Translates Business Strategy into Solutions Architecture

• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.

• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.

• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential impact on the enterprise.

• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs.

• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.

Leads Solutions Design and Analysis

• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.

• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).

• Creates reference architectures focused on detailed design principles, decision points, detailed APIs, major systems and dependencies between business and IT.

• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative.

• Analyzes the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).

Orchestrates Solutions Delivery

• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.

• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

• Facilitates the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.

• Supports product managers in EOL (end of life) product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire products, services or systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information).

• Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state (as defined by the solutions architecture).

• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment…