Enterprise Solution Architect at Plan International

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with extensive experience of solutions architecture and oversight, who will act confidently as a direction setter and subject matter expert, engaging positively with key business and technical stakeholders.

The Solution Architect role underscores the importance of comprehensive data and digital solution design to ensure a cohesive and well-managed architecture for the organisation, supporting its long-term operations. Through the adoption of a modular approach specifically tailored to the systems within the organisation, this position aims to enhance adaptability, scalability, and sustainability. Its scope extends to encompassing the broader global strategic and operational architecture.

Key Accountabilities

Your subject matter and anticipated outcomes may differ greatly from one project to another. This versatility in role presents fresh and compelling prospects, necessitating a keen ability to adjust. Your capacity to adapt will be crucial as the expectations vary. Depending on the project, you will be expected to:

• Support Plan in creating and assessing their global technology strategies and roadmaps, ensuring they are investing in the right technology and delivering in the right order.
• Support delivery programs by crafting contemporary and innovative Solution Architectures and Technical Designs tailored to the scope of work, collaborating with business owners, analysts, development teams, and program managers.
• Persistently engage in learning, refinement, and adaptation to the evolving demands of the business. Explore new subject areas as needed, such as novel products and services or solutions aimed at addressing humanitarian crises.
• Fulfil the role of a technology leader, providing support to Plan throughout project/program lifecycle, including discovery, requirements gathering, solution design and development, end-to-end testing, process definition, change management, and go-live.
• Take a technical lead role in projects or other initiatives to ensure all requirements, including functional, integration, security, performance, quality, and operations are covered
• Responsible to ensure that the architecture requirements for the development, execution, and operations are implemented as designed
• Lead the IT Architecture analysis, design, and implementation, and ensure that policies and standards are followed in respective area
• Support development of architecture reference architecture, including standards and in management of exemptions
• Offer technical governance, across projects and operations ensuring solution quality assurance through design reviews that adhere to industry best practices and standards.
• Analyse technical dependencies to grasp enterprise-wide connections, assess the impacts of changes or delays, identify technology risks, issues, and technical debt, and provide insights into areas of IT fragility for inclusion in the IT backlog of work.
• Defining and implementing an Integrated architecture roadmap with sound enterprise application integration (EAI) standards for the organisation
• Drive a sound architecture roadmap, proactively addressing any uncertainties in solutions, guiding and influencing towards successful business outcomes and risk mitigation.
• Evaluate requests for new technology against the existing Plan technical landscape and provide recommendations for selections.
• Oversee governance activities aimed at ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
• Lead and guide to uphold solution integrity, ensuring adherence to requirements.