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The Senior Associate Cross Technology Technical Architect is a developing subject matter expert, responsible for working with colleagues and under supervision to learn how to design solutions based on their technical knowledge across one or two technology domains. This role works under the guidance of more senior colleagues to complete the overall technical design and build of the small-scale and less complex elements of the solution to meet a client’s business requirements.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities:
- Develops the skills to select and apply appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with the agreed enterprise and solution architectures.
- Implements and executes less complex or small-scale system solutions.
- Develops solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
- Learns how to define and scope requirements and prioritisation activities for small-scale changes.
- Provides some pre-sales technical support and knowledge in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current infrastructure, architecture, system capabilities and business challenges.
- Under the guidance of more senior colleagues, assists with the design of components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
- Ensures technical solutions accomplish the client’s objectives.
- Assists Solutions Architects (SAs) in the production of a technical specification for the solution’s development and systems integration requirements.
- Develops the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
- Assists with the scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses.
- Assists with client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which require appropriation of appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.
Knowledge and Attributes:
- Relevant product knowledge integrated with technology understanding.
- Understanding of the vendor’s products, business and technology positioning.
- Good communication skills both verbal and written.
- Develops the ability to establish and create client relationships.
- Continuously maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
- Knowledge of the problem domain that their systems are to provide solutions for.
- Basic understanding of key vendor subscription models such as Cisco EA 3.0.
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or information systems or related field.
- Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
- Relevant vendor and industry certifications, for example, Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle.
- Software and programming languages, for example, C++.
- SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.
Required Experience:
- Moderate level experience as a technician or in an entry level technical support role.
- Moderate level experience working as a systems administrator or network engineer.
- Moderate level experience in a variety of architectures for specific domain or specialization.
- Moderate level project management experience would be advantageous.
Workplace type: Hybrid Working
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