Senior Solution Architect

The Central Bank of Ireland serves the public interest by safeguarding monetary and financial stability and by working to ensure that the financial system operates in the best interests of consumers and the wider economy.

We currently have a vacancy for a Senior Solution Architect *on a contract of indefinite duration in the *IT Strategy Planning & Architecture Division.* _This role is aligned with the __Bank Professional 2 grade_*_ and the BP2 salary scale, between €83,703 and €105,516 applies. Please click _here for further information on our salary scales._

As Senior Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing system solutions to meet the requirements of the business and align with IT strategy and architecture. As a Senior Solution Architect you will frequently work on more complex and high profile projects, liase closely with Enterprise Architects to help develop enterprise solutions, quality assure Solution Architects, provide advice and guidance to less experienced colleagues and continually look for ways to improve ways of working.

Responsibilities:

• Provide relevant skills transfer, coaching and mentoring to team members to share expertise and ensure that the necessary skills, competencies and knowledge are being developed and leveraged across the team, as appropriate.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of the specific business areas you are aligned with and have an understanding of organisational inter-dependencies to ensure an enterprise view when designing business solutions.
• As Senior Solution Architect, work during projects to shape soluton options, providing appropriate challenge to stakeholders and influencing strategic direction to ensure that the solutions designed are architecturally aligned, bring value to the organisation and meet business needs.
• Develop solution designs and supporting technical design documentation in compliance with architectural strategies (vison and roadmap) and principles, carrying out due diligence in identifying the solution and adhering to agreed policies and standrards in the areas of security, infrastructure, services, delivery and quality assurance in order to ensure business solutions bring real value to the organisation.
• In solution procurements, support the preparation of functional requirements, and lead the preparation and evaluation of IT requirements to ensure quality of same. Carry out market research to ensure the right solutions are procured and work with Procurement to ensure successful tender outcomes for the organisation.
• As required, supervise, mentor and coach Solution Architects and their outputs to ensure that they understand business requirements and provide appropriate solution options to meet same; with access to and utilisation of best practice tools, frameworks and methodologies, in order to deliver the best solutions to meet business need. As required, review Solution Architects work to ensure a focus on consistent and high quality outputs ensuring the processes exist to promote the delivery of good business soltuions aligned with IT architecture.
• Maintain relationships with Enterprise Architecture, Business Analysis and IT Delivery in order to influence decisions made in respect of approaches to and scoping of projects and to influence architectural direction in respect of roadmaps.
• Support the Solution Architecture Manager in embedding a culture of continuous improvement in the Solution Architecture team by looking for and driving improvements to ‘ways of working’, processes, tools and techniques.
• Keep up to date with developments and trends in the market place and keep informed about solution approaches that similar / peer organisations are taking to ensure that you are well-informed to make recommendations in respect of business solution options and architectural strategy. Ensure the promotion of knowedge sharing in the team so that they too can contribute to well informed recommendations.

Requirements:

• Business / IT Strategy Planning - Lean Six Sigma, Process Engineering Project Management - CBI PM Level 1 Analysis and Design - Object Oriented analysis and design Enterprise Architecture - IASA & TOGAF Foundational Systems Design - PowerPivot, SSAS & SSRS Analysis and Reporting services, SharePoint Data - Data Warehousing, Data Management, Statistical Analysis Foundation Stakeholder Focus - Negotiation skills
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Design & Architecture, preferably with a background in Solution Delivery, operating at a senior level with people management experience.
• Ability to produce concise, accurate solution designs to meet business requirements
• Significant experience of design and systems architecture. Significant xperience of providing technical solutions to business problems.
• Significant experience of analysis, design and /or development across a selection of technologies e.g. XML, XBRL, Oracle, SQL, Jave,.Net, HTML etc.
• In-depth und