Digital Solutions Architect
hace 1 día
Hatfield
What will I be doing? • Champion modern technology product development & deployment processes and procedures, adhering to IT protocol for digital solutions architecture, following best practices of scalability, security, error handling, monitoring, post go live monitoring and support, • Designing robust solutions to deliver a great member experience using hybrid-cloud and mobile first approach, • Accountable for maintaining digital architectural landscape within DL IT landscape, • Accountable for design blueprints of the entire digital landscape, • Responsible for relevant touch points in the DL architectural landscape, • Ensure solution fits data journeys - full end to end thinking, • Collaborating with business stakeholders, IT Design team and all vendors involved, • Work with IT Design/Secure Team to ensure broader solution architecture goals are being met, • Provide technical solution designs by taking into consideration business requirements, industry best practices, models, frameworks and security/compliance, • Ensure solutions are designed to be compliant with data protection, information, security and PCI standards, • Manage the Digital architecture works pipeline closely liaising with POD Heads & Project Managers, • Collaborate with PODs (BA/Product Owner/PM) and the vendor architects to produce design blueprints, considering full end-to-end processes / data flows / security / business processes / reporting and impacts to operations and members, • Agree with the PODs and IT Programme Management team the scope of works for the POD and IT Project in order to deliver the complete solution, • Provide digital requirement definition support - collaborating with Digital Business Analysts during (to educate) and after (to draft solutions) request capture, in order to understand functional, technical, reporting, and user experience requirements, • Collaborate closely with the Digital Data Architect to understand the impact of data demands and volumes on existing infrastructure capacity/scale and data interfaces, • Embrace/embed 'security by design' principles for all Digital design, • Clearly communicate design solution options to business owners in order to seek design approval, • Oversee formal approvals process for technical design of Digital products - hand to Security & Legal, Support for formal sign off, • Chair monthly Digital Architecture Review Board, • Attend weekly Digital/IT Architecture meeting, • Follow principles that allow for multiple option design thinking, • Design full end to end test plans including Load & Performance stress points, • Validate development and testing work carried out by third-party vendors to meet the design requirements, • Input to solution cost estimates to ensure accurate budgeting, • Produce, manage and keep up to date all Digital designs, architecture, policy and specification documentation, • Working jointly with the Digital Data Architect, prepare documentation/work closely with IT support team on handover to support tasks, • Adhere to design principles and DL security standards in all design works, • Ensure landscape is fit for purpose and identify areas of optimisation required: infrastructure and architecture review, identify technical debt, capacity planning, environment management, review incident trends and automation, • Join critical P1s or major incidents to assist with troubleshooting scenarios (when/where relevant), • Work with Director of Digital Engineering to refine digital technology strategy for David Lloyd Digital, • Develop Digital architecture/technology roadmaps, • Represent Digital Architecture at the IT Change Advisory Board How will I be measured? • Digital pod team deliverables start and finish on time with minimal solution/technology barriers, • No design/architecture related escalations to Director of Digital Engineering and Head of Design & Data, • Digital Solutions Architect is the go to for all Digital IT architecture queries - seen as knowledgeable and able to provide the complete apps, data and infrastructure view point, • For all new service introductions/enhancements in infrastructure/apps/data: no service issues are generated due to design flaws, • Service optimisation delivered & or service optimisation papers that are approved, • All solution designs are approved within SLA, • 360 feedback including from vendors - is supportive of the role and the incumbent is seen to be expert in the field of Digital solution architecture, • All Digital/IT management meetings, Digital Architecture Review Board, CAB are attended What qualifications, skills and experience do I need? • Ability to work in a multi-speed organisation, and coordinate the different moving parts required to deliver new functionality, • Experience in dealing with and prioritising the requests of multiple stakeholders, • Experience overseeing modern development processes, including: Native mobile app development, Back-end microservices development (Java, NodeJS), IaC approaches to infrastructure provisioning (Terraform/Terraform Cloud), • Systems design/architecture experience, particularly in modernisation/Digital Transformation projects, • Diverse solutions architecture experience covering modern cloud infrastructure, modern technology & legacy systems, • Background in dev ops, engineering, infrastructure AS code, • Degree in Computer Science or a technology-related field, • Experienced in applying commercial judgement to ensure recommendations are in line with budgets, • Comfortable with documenting and communicating the model used to understand the enterprise, system, application, and network through a series of viewpoints, • Strong influencing and engagement skills, • Skills in presentation, communication, facilitation, • Adept at working collaboratively both within the Digital & IT functions and across the broader business teams as well as with a diverse set of 3rd party vendors Desirable • Agile application development Key behaviours • Pragmatic creative, agile, can do, option generator, energetic, self-motivated , sense of ownership, • Communicates complex IT solutions & concepts in plain easy to understand language, • Must have skill: with multiple-PODs potentially running, must have the ability to work across multiple design requirements, • Able to juggle project priorities and stakeholders, • Collaborative working, one team culture, supportive: no idea is a bad idea, • Stay abreast of latest tech innovations, • Think holistically to understand how our technology and solutions impact member/team member/club experience JBRP1_UKTJ