Senior Solution Architect - HN - TA099

1. Translate Business Strategy into Solutions Architecture

- Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current stat) 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 to help the architecture review board (ARB) assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate.

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

2. Lead 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).

3. Lead 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).

4. Facilitate and Collaborate to Deliver Business Outcomes

- Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product lifecycle.

- Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.

- Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.

- Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify projects to accommodate the solutions architecture.

- Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams, product owners, and application architects to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience

- Minimum of five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development

- Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, Go and Python          

- Knowledge of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle

- Knowledge of various frontend web development languages like JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

- Hands-on experience with at least one of following domains: cloud native application development, DevOps practices, highly available and critical system development

- Knowledge of various aspects of an enterprise technology architecture like business, information, data, network and security

- Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)

- Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

- Knowledge and understanding of different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)

- Understanding and knowledge of IT standards and controls

- Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences

- Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations

- Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements

- Demonstrated ability to work well with others and be respected as a leader

- Displays intellectual curiosity and integrity

- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

- Competitive salary and bonus package

- Staff loan with special interest rates

- Traing courses based on the job, Training framework/Learning RoadMap for each position

- Insurance in accordance with Labor laws + VPBank Care insurance for all employees. (insurance covered for family members for entitled employees);

- Annual leave (varied based on job grade)

- Travel allowance

- A dynamic and friendly working environment, full of great opportunities to develop your career and abundant interesting activities to join (Sports competitions, talent contests, teambuilding…)