Job Detail

The design and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. In addition to technology components, solution architecture encompasses changes to service, process, organisation, and operating models. The provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.

Key Responsibilities:

• Specialist advice Actively maintains recognised expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s). Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organisational objectives.
• Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.
• Research Within given research goals, builds on and refines appropriate outline ideas for research, including evaluation, development, demonstration and implementation.
• Applies standard methods to collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data.
• Creates research reports to communicate research methodology and findings and conclusions.
• Contributes sections of material of publication quality.
• Uses available resources to update knowledge of any relevant field and curates a personal collection of relevant material. Participates in research communities.