Solution Architect

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Role:
Reservation Platforms is looking for individuals with experience in designing and implementing large-scale, high-profile solutions to join our IT Architecture team. We use modern technology stacks crafted by some of the most amazing people you will ever work with. The Solution Architect has end-to-end responsibility for ensuring the completeness of Solution Architecture in the Reservation Platforms teams which support our Distribution, Revenue Management, Digital, and Airline Reservation stakeholders.
This is achieved by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of stakeholders and the integrity of the architecture, in terms of appropriate application and component selection and their adherence to corporate architectural standards. They will also satisfactorily reconcile the conflicting concerns of different stakeholders and show the trade-offs made in meeting the appropriate goals. The choice of which architecture views to develop is one of the key decisions that the Solution Architect must make.
This choice must be constrained by considerations of practicality, cost, and the principle of fitness-for-purpose. The Solution Architect has the responsibility for architectural design and documentation to create technologically superior solutions required for an agile and efficient business. The role is responsible for developing, maintaining, and ensuring the integrity of end-to-end technology solutions to address specific project / programme / product requirements and align to technology strategies, architectures, and engineering standards.
Key deliverables include:
Leading the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements. Establishing policies, principles, and practices for the selection of Solution Architecture components. Managing trade-offs and balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area or value stream of the organization. Communicating proposed decisions to multiple stakeholders across the West Jet Group, including ELT. Coordinating and managing the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives, across West Jet business units and with third-party suppliers or partners.
Maintaining a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives, across West Jet business units and with third-party suppliers or partners. Defining the planned operation and maintenance of the solution within a production environment — include changes to services, process, organization, and operating models as well as technology. Ensuring that existing and planned solution components are compatible with relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices Considering requirements for security, privacy and testing of solutions Taking account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices identifying appropriate cloud services.
Developing roadmaps to migrate components to cloud services. Developing and communicating implementation roadmaps across multiple business units and with external partners. Providing guidance and risk-based governance to support solution implementation including managing requests for changes and deviations from specifications. Being accountable for ensuring the completeness (fitness-for-purpose) of the architecture by adequately addressing all the pertinent concerns of its stakeholders and reconciling the conflicting concerns of different stakeholders, leading to a sign-off the architectural design as fit for purpose.
Understanding and interpreting requirements by probing for information, influencing people, facilitating consensus, synthesizing / translating ideas into actionable items and articulating those ideas to others. Embody requirements in the architecture specification. Responsible for developing well-formulated models of the components of the solution, augmenting the models as necessary to fit all the circumstances. Showing multiple views through models to communicate ideas effectively.
Being responsible for developing end-to-end user-focused solutions that interact effectively with one another to provide scalable, reliable, and resilient functionality to the end-users. Tracking and evaluating emerging trends in domain knowledge area(s) and maintaining a strong relationship with appropriate vendors in that space. Maintaining a strong knowledge of the technologies, techniques, and business concepts (as related to IT)…