Architectural Design & Strategy
- Translate complex business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, and cost-effective technical architectures.
- Align solution designs with enterprise business goals, value streams, and multi-year technology roadmaps.
- Choose appropriate architectural patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven, serverless) to meet the needs of each solution.
Cloud & Integration Architecture
- Design and integrate cloud-native and hybrid/multi-cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Define APIs, data flows, and middleware integrations to ensure seamless interoperability across systems.
- Optimise cloud performance, security, cost, and resilience.
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with stakeholders including developers, security, DevOps, product managers, and business leads to guide solution delivery.
- Ensure solutions follow architecture principles and are implemented with best practices.
- Drive adoption of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD methodologies.
Governance, Security & Compliance
- Implement architectural governance, ensuring adherence to security standards and compliance regulations.
- Apply identity management, encryption, and access controls to safeguard systems and data.
Communication & Leadership
- Act as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
- Present architecture decisions clearly to executives and cross-functional teams.
- Lead and mentor engineering teams, promoting best practices and technical excellence.