Solution Architect Specialist - Data Products, Ethernet and Optical Services

Why this job matters

The Solution Architect Specialist independently executes a range of workstreams in delivering the overall solution architecture design and mapping of business requirements, as well as organises smooth project delivery empowering the implementation of functional solutions that are fit for purpose and delivered against stated business requirements.

What you’ll be doing

1. Delivers deep technical and repeatable solutions that achieve customer requirements driving positive outcomes.
2. Guides partnerships with business and operational stakeholders to conduct business and technical discovery.
3. Implements robust recommendations, proposals and scope of work documents for group engagements while also identifying critical dependencies and gaps.
4. Delivers the creation of innovative and repeatable solution architectures to resolve a range of complex solution architecture problems and meet agreed requirements.
5. Facilitates business stakeholders' understanding of capabilities and the transformative power of group products, services and technology.
6. Drives the team culture of enhancing the solution architect team's knowledge, methodologies and customer-facing collateral.
7. Executes alignment with Enterprise Architecture guardrails and solution patterns'
8. Contributes to thought leadership and provides advice on a specific set of technologies to help senior leadership shape the long-term direction of solution architecture strategy
9. Delivers complex, strategic initiatives that are a part of the company's overall commercial strategy
10. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in solution architecture
11. Mentors other solution architects, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource
12. Act as the technical expert on architecture governance and design authority for development of products and services in line with the published roadmap

The skills you’ll need

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