TECHNICAL SOLUTION ARCHITECT

The Solution Architect will lead and support the definition of client implementation solutions for a leading Irish Financial Services company. Financial Services and technical architecture experience is required.
The Solution Architect role, based in Dublin within the Professional Services department, is part of the Solution Architecture Practice. As a member of this team you will lead and support the definition of client implementation solutions. You will be required to develop your product and architecture skills to become an expert in the product and its use in creating solutions for our clients.
Core Responsibilities
Direct involvement on projects during the pre-sales, mobilisation & planning, requirements and design phases of projects detailing and directing project solution activities to achieve project goals.
Facilitate solution implementation handovers from the pre-sales phase during project initiation.
Defining and designing with clients, solution roadmaps that are aligned closely with the Insurance Platform and strategic product direction.
Working closely with Product Management and Product Architecture to promote project solution requirements and designs, outlining areas for product development and providing input to the Insurance Platform roadmap.
Member of and promotion of the Solution Architecture practice ensuring that all aspects of the solutions you are involved with are consistent with standards.
Ensure implementations and project design decisions are well defined and communicated.
Facilitate and participate in project solution reviews.
Solution and estimation support to sales and pre-sales during implementation studies and bid proposals.

Required Skills
The suitable candidate will possess most of the following:
Must be willing to travel regularly visiting and consulting with project teams on customer sites.
An excellent understanding and ability to separate technical and business needs and an ability to speak both technical and business language.
Will have strong consulting and customer engagement skills communicating both with business and technical audiences.
Demonstrable experience communicating at senior levels within client organisations.
Strong influencing and solution leadership skills.
Experience of providing solution management, supervision and mentorship is essential.
Excellent communicator, process driven and proven leader with excellent influencing skills.
Will be self motivated and will have a proven ability to self-learn through on the job training.
Required Experience
At least 10 Years experience in designing and developing software systems and software implementations.
Will have spent the last 5 years in an architect/senior systems analyst position working with large scale enterprise systems.
Will have experience of the full software lifecycle and will have worked on a number of full software lifecycle projects.
Excellent requirements analysis, gap analysis, software design and data modelling skills including the ability to identify patterns in both requirements and solutions.
Significant experience of defining integration and migration solutions.
Strong experience in estimation, scope management and risk assessment techniques.
A good understanding of software implementation methodologies.
Authorisation to work in Ireland

An excellent senior opportunity to further your technical skills within a hig