Solution Architect - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

Verified Company

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1 week ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

Enables enterprise-wide responses to change (planned or unplanned) by providing a comprehensive, enterprise-wide view/ strategy for a subset of areas within architectural domains.

Acts as a 'motivator for change', finding opportunities for transformation and innovation, targets to build maturity, while also identifying risks.

Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

Supports crossprogram, and crossgroup Architecture strategies, opportunities, and problem resolution within a given domain, also setting enterprise direction within their domain
Provides input and mentorship regarding the creation of guardrails within a given domain (standards, policies, patterns, best practice etc)
Acts as a consultant and trusted advisor, establishing and maintaining an ecosystem of contacts within business units, regulatory bodies, even customers, to understand business activities and business drivers, as well as business vision and strategy
Updates and maintains the key Architecture artifacts (reports, roadmap and other domain artefacts) in a timely manner to enhance inventories
Conducts horizon scanning, looking for emerging technology within a given domain, as well as social, environmental and behavioural trends that would have a positive impact
Audits compliance with domain guardrails (over and above day to day governance and assurance carried out by federated solutions architects) and resolves any issues
Understands relevant vendor strategies, product roadmaps, and customer preferences
May mentor and train more junior colleagues.

Qualifications & Experience:

Professional qualification or equivalent, such as TOGAF
Knowledge of architectural frameworks, techniques and practices used in enterprise and solution architecture
Some customer and matrix management experience.

Key responsibilities

Work with Business Stakeholders, Product Owner, other functional teams, Business Analysts to understand functional and nonfunctional requirements
Assist other architects in crafting cloud solutions such as AWS and Azure
Review and enrich solutions
Build endtoend solution & design covering all involved systems, data, integration, security and requirements
Identify architecture exceptions during definitions of target and transitional architectures
Follow governance processes agreed with CT Architecture Team alignment to defined principles, policies, technology, information and process standards
Produce and maintain architecture documentation including Solution Architecture Document, Data Flow Diagram, Coordinated Architecture diagram etc
Review solution individually with key reviewers e.g. Security, Privacy etc
Present solution in various forums (like Design Integrity Forum, Architecture Committee, Architecture Review Board) and with different teams like Security, Privacy.
Help project team to size & estimate project implementation and identify resources and abilities needed for delivery of solution
Ensure the proposed solution aligns with the business outcome
Ensures all solutions follow Corporate Technology and enterprise solution standards, align with overall roadmap, have good quality documentation, and follow all relevant governance steps

Leadership responsibilities

Individual Contributor_

Critical Work Output:

A fully articulated Solution Architecture Document that includes
Details on end to solution from a conceptual, logical and physical level
Security features and settings
System Integration details
DR/BCP details
Risks and mitigations

N.B.

The role holder will be Accountable for the delivery of this document but is encouraged to work with Domain Authorities to complete sections outside the role holder's expertise.

Capturing approvals for the solution architecture through the LSEG Governance processes

Impact

This role sets the technology direction of the overall project and therefore can influence cost and timelines to the assigned projects.

Meaningful metrics

Completion of Solution Architecture Document to agreed timelines
Successful 'sign off' of the Solution as described in the Solution Architecture Document from the relevant collaborators and review boards within the agreed timelines of the plan

Technical/job functional knowledge

Experienced in architecting, delivering and supporting softwarebased systems coordinated across a variety of IT infrastructures
Knowledge of:
Azure hosting capabilities and services
AWS hosting capabilities and services
Architecting for nonfunctional requirements, e.g. performance, network capacity, security
Databases
SaaS solutions
Infrastructure concepts to support business continuity and operations e.g. performance, disaster recovery
Familiarity with networking and security concepts
Ideally, experience or knowledge of
Onpremise to Cloud migration projects Integration projects as a result of corporate acquisitions & mergers
Onboarding SaaS solutions
Appreciation of InfoS