Solution Architect/Solution Design Architect 6 Months Initially - £625 a day

Skills required:

The role requires knowledge of leading on Solution Design.

This role has an overall understanding of technology strategy, vision, designs and delivery mechanisms such as existing suppliers, outsourcers, etc; It does not have to be a technical architect or an administrator but requires a good understanding and knowledge of technology designs.

Responsibilities:

Work closely with the PwC delivery team and our client to supports the iterative development and closure of the Design Solution;

• Coordinates the provisioning of necessary inputs from our client, where needed within this work package, to PwC so that the team can perform their duties;
• Provides knowledge around our clients current structure and architecture setup ;
• Provides existing architecture references, functional and non-functional frameworks and Client governance frameworks for technology, acting as a link to SMEs within the Client site;
• Helps to remove obstacles that arise during design phase representing ownership and accountability;
• Attends the daily stand ups and any other relevant forums to enable decision-making process;
• Iteratively reviews the outputs (as they develop) and supports the team in obtaining approvals from signatories (may involve co-ordination with other SMEs);
• Assists/support CEDAR and CODA ERP functionality assessment and works with the PwC delivery lead to identify and define alternatives;
• Data analysis required for IFRS 9/17 regarding availability and sourcing;
• Contributes to and represents the Client for the rapid vendor selection;
• Contributes to the key data deliverables - Data Catalogue, Conceptual Data Model and High-Level Logical Data Model;
• Provides input to security architecture required for the target architecture;
• Provides data governance standards, non-functional requirements, working day timetable, security requirements, performance requirements;
• Facilitates specific environment strategy inputs and designs;
• Understands and guides the team on escalation mechanisms both within the program and with to close any outstanding issues to completion;
• Helps in transition of design documents in to following implementation phases and eventually in to BAU by working with service design, support teams, etc;
• Works to the Design Authority in seeking approval of data design deliverables;
• SPOC (Single Point of Contact) with responsibility of identifying and reaching out to internal resources / suppliers to support the project on a consultancy basis;
• Supports also activities across work packages in particular the Data Solution;