Solution Architect -4
Civica UK Ltd, India

Role Purpose

Civica are seeking a creative, passionate, and self-motivated Solution Architect to join the central Architecture Practice.

• The Architecture practice focuses on providing the following services to Civica projects:
• Architecture Solution Design. Helping teams to formalise business functional and non-functional requirements; creating an architectural solution based on these requirements along with Civica preferred tooling, technology choices, and architectural patterns.
• Architecture Solution Implementation. Work with product teams across the Group to implement technical solutions using Civica preferred design patterns, industry best practice and standards.
• Architecture Assessment. Assess existing Civica product designs and implementations with a view of providing recommendations in line with Civica architectural standards and policies.
• The Solution Architect will work with project teams across the Group, in a wide variety of sectors and geographies to deliver and support the above services.

Key Responsibilities amp; Duties

• Translate business functional and non-functional requirements into design of solution architectures for Civica Critical Software product teams.
• Provide leadership and mentoring for technical teams.
• Promote the use of Civica preferred tooling, design patterns, and technology choices.
• Promote the reuse of existing technical assets, processes and methodologies and ensuring that any build of new technical assets is executed to enable reuse by teams
• Promote modern security principals such as secure by design and by default.
• Be familiar, on a continual basis, with Civica processes, policies, and practices as set by the Product Strategy Group (PSG).
• Promoting and applying PSG policies and industry best practices across all Civica project teams with regards to architecture and associated methodologies.
• Liaison with relevant third party suppliers and business partners as required.
• Reports to Architecture Practice Manager.
• Relationship management with Civica project development and program management teams.

Essential Competencies

• Solution-oriented with the imagination to identify workarounds for critical problem.
• Strong organisational and planning skills and be able to work under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal and good presentation skills
• Effective stakeholder management at all levels.
• Effective time management and an ability to recognise and respond to changing priorities and requirements.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to guide, direct, motivate and support staff either directly or indirectly.
• Commercial awareness.
• Self-motivated, resilient, flexible and enthusiastic.

Education

First class and above grade in BE/BTECH/MCA equivalent degree from a university of UGC accreted.

Requirements

Technical Knowledge

Essential

• An understanding of enterprise architecture and how this fits in with solution architecture.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of architecture integration patterns and associated standards and technologies.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of solution development based on the PaaS, SaaS and IaaS capabilities of public cloud platforms, in particular Microsoft Azure and their inherent advantages. Proven ability to create solutions which meet performance and security requirements.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of microservices, web services and associated technologies and frameworks, such as RESTful API design.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of web application development, such as Microsoft ASP.NET.
• Knowledge and experience of Single Sign On and Authentication/Authorization technologies such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, ADFS and LDAP.
• Knowledge and experience of database technologies including MS SQL, operating systems including Windows amp; Linux and network design with an excellent understanding of how these components interact to meet the solution requirements.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for solution security. E.g. OWASP, NCSC cloud security principles.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for handling personal data. E.g. GDPR.
• Experience of working within a Microsoft technical stack and development environments, such as .NET Core and associated tools and frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience of DevOps and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools and practices.
• Knowledge and experience of infrastructure as code practices, tooling, and techniques.
• Knowledge and experience of

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