Senior Solutions Architect at Regenesys Business School

Job Description

• Regenesys Business School (Regenius division) is looking to hire a highly driven Senior Solutions Architect to assist the company to pioneer system innovation and solutions architecture. The Senior Solutions Architect’s responsibilities involve developing new systems – hybrid between inhouse system solutions (bespoke), 3rd party white labelled solutions and the outsourcing of modular system components / wholistic solutions. Technical strategies and models, system integration frameworks, user processes, communicating to management on how these strategies and models will enhance business efficiency.
• To ensure that solutions proposed to clients meet the client’s needs and expectations, but can also be delivered in a reliable and predictable way. This frequently requires balancing competing priorities, using innovative commercial and technical approaches to minimise risk and to meet challenging business cases.
• This means that the Solution Architect needs to demonstrate creativity and diplomacy, as well as more traditional technical, project management and commercial skills. The Solution Architect needs to act as a single point of contact (SPOC) for the opportunity throughout the sales process. This involves coordinating between subject matter experts (SME’s), reviewers and approvers to ensure a winning, differentiated, deliverable and approved solution.

Senior Solutions Architect Responsibilities:

• Engage with appropriate Regenesys organisation areas to fully leverage their assets – solutions, tools, capability groups, when pursuing opportunities.
• Understand and translate buyer values and requirements into the solution approach, leveraging standard processes, methods, deliverables, and the right mix of offerings.
• Define a differentiated solution that achieves the greatest value for the client and gives the client a high level of confidence about the solution.
• Manage the interface with the sales team during the sales process and delivery by ensuring regular communication and close collaboration with the sales team / stakeholders. Provide input to the sales team on how the solution may influence the sales campaign, pricing, and negotiation strategy.
• Lead/Participate in a team to plan, execute and manage the solution in response to a client requirement/RFP. This involves the coordination of various stakeholders across sales, delivery and 3rd parties
• Participate and/or lead solution discussions and stakeholder meetings related to technology solution or platform(s) differentiation best of bread solution proposed to the stakeholders.
• Shape the commercial proposition by working with stakeholders or other responsible areas to develop the underlying economics of the solution.
• Provide the underlying costs associated with the solution and ensure stakeholders has the necessary detail to plug into a model that accurately determines the profitability for Regenesys.
• Work with Legal and Commercial department to ensure use of standards and adherence for internal compliance. Collaborate with the stakeholders to provide input to contractual Terms and Conditions.
• Manage solution risk assessment through active issue management and risk mitigation.
• Contribute to Solution specific content for Response or Proposal material.
• Support creation of (and review) contract schedules.
• Obtain the necessary signoff and compliance of the solution with proper input from the stakeholders on client business objectives, industry, risk assessment, budget, and preferences, and as an SME you are required to educate the stakeholders.
• Lead and/or participate discussions around Client Value Creation, Innovation, Solution Differentiation and provide solution details during orals sessions.
• Confirm artifacts developed during the Solutioning and ensure they are uploaded according to the defined processes.
• Effectively transition the Solution Plan to the appropriate teams within the Delivery Platforms, including Service Delivery, Automation, Digitalisation and Mobilisation

Senior Solutions Architect Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology-related programme or IT Architecture Standards/Framework certified (TOGAF, ITIL Design ect) Function Related Experience.
• 7-9 years of frontend and backend development, experience NodeJS, React and Java is must
• 1-3 years of experience leading a small team of developers
• Proficient in any of the given RDBMS
• Good knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture using microservice based frameworks
• Expert knowledge of algorithms, data structures, OOP concepts and modularised software
• Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services
• A strong understanding of containerization technology (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments. Understanding of session management in a distributed server environment.
• Knowledge of accessibility and security compliance
• Proficient in Version Control Systems based on Git. Must know Branching strategies.
• Understanding of AWS services-S3, EC2-Elastic load balancer, SQS, SNS, and CloudFront etc
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, design patterns, source control management.
• Experience building new products that use challenging algorithms

Essential Role Responsibilities

• Set up and manage a team. This will involve taking regular interviews to help build your and other teams as well.
• Lead a team of engineers: You will work in an Agile, fast-paced environment. This will require planning and delegating work to team members to achieve milestones. Guide them through technical issues and challenges. Making sure that engineers under you are growing in their careers.
• Design Architecture: You will lead technical design discussions with the solution architect for your modules. This will require hands-on work on proof of concepts on complex implementations. Prepare thorough technical documentation which can be used as a reference by other engineers
• Responsible for code delivery: Push deploys on a constant basis. You will need to make sure that you and your team are always on track to release something new every other week. You will architect, develop, test, and deploy robust products that are fast, scalable, and highly responsive. Establish standard and consistent coding practices.