Principal Solution Architect at Anglo American

Job Description:
The purpose of the role is to define and govern the technical architecture and design of the VOXEL platform, ensuring ongoing VOXEL solution alignment and ultimately the success of the VOXEL platform.

Key Responsibilities:

Performance & Delivery

• Lead the definition and communication of a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs spanning platforms and domains.
• Use documentation tools to capture, curate, and maintain architecture designs and all forms of documentation.
• Ensure effective cost controls are baked into the design.
• Collaborate across the entire platform and domain teams as well as the IM group to shape the solution architecture, elaborating the solution and its interfaces.
• Supervise the work of other peer Architects (e.g. front-end, back-end, data, security & network) to ensure ongoing alignment and integration of the solution architecture, priorities and standards/ requirements. The DA and IM teams should experience this team’s work as seamless, with fully integrated solution design and documentation.
• Broad-scan for the latest technology and customer trends relevant to solution architecture.  Make recommendations regarding potential impacts and opportunities.

Establish and lead the Architecture Chapter:

• Socialise the architecture standards and requirements
• Provide guidance to teams on the vision, strategy and standards for solution architecture and design, as well as trends and best practices
• Promote adaptive design practices to drive collaboration around a common technical vision using continuous feedback
• With the community, define and constantly improve standards, patterns, processes, templates and refence material, leveraging the skills and ideas across the Chapter
• Organise and conduct reviews of products for compliance to ensure quality and alignment to standards against chapter standards, with the support of chapter champions
• Monitor, review and continually improve performance
• Build and maintain effective relationships with key partners and clients: inform, influence and engage with key stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• An undergraduate qualification (Bachelors / Honours degree or equivalent) in a relevant technical discipline.
• Post-graduate qualification in a digital field, or a relevant technical discipline

Role-specific knowledge:

• Deep knowledge technical solution architecture and experience working with demanding architecture standards
• Sound knowledge of peer supervision and mentoring principles and practices
• Strong understanding and experience of delivering solutions with complex interactions across cloud and non-cloud capabilities
• Experience of working with agile engineering teams and delivering solutions in a cloud environment (Azure) leveraging platform capabilities
• Strong understanding of emerging threats and vulnerability research
• Working knowledge of Enterprise System Management Tools

Operations:

• Architecture standards, best practices and diagrams (Visio, Draw.io etc.)
• Architecture Integration and API Architecture patterns
• Azure Cloud Technology Stack
• Systematic, knowledge-based problem-solving approach and structured methodologies (such as root cause analysis and statistical analysis) to investigate risks and opportunities to create effective, value-add technical solutions.
• Enterprise System Management tools
• Networking and Security
• Threat and Vulnerability Management and Data Loss Prevention
• Security Information Event Management (SIEM)
• Identity and Access Management and Privileged Account Management
• Agile / Scrum / SAFe
• DevOps
• Test Automation (Unit, Integration, UI)
• Endpoint Detection and Response
• Business Cases, Noting Papers, Proposals, and other general writing tasks
• Management of large, complex programs across a mix of internal resources and 3rd party vendors.
• Establishes and nurtures relationships with stakeholders, by use of effective listening and questioning to better understand the other person or group.

Closing Date : 8th, April 2022