Job Description

• Design solutions to meet business requirements and agree service levels. Produce documentation to agreed standards (for example UML)
  

to support this

• Lead the development project teams in helping to implement the solution design. Set the direction for the team by establishing a project
  

vision of the solution. Use a range of techniques as required to ensure the project team is able to deliver; for example coaching, mentoring,
reviews, facilitation of workshops, decision making, technical training and so on. This will frequently be as the technical consultant role on a
DSDM agile team, in accordance with Callcredit’s agile SDLC

• Present and explain the solution design as required to clients, internal or external, on behalf of the project team, ensuring technical terms
  

and detail are fully understood by both technical and non-technical participants

• Provide architectural and design guidance to the development project teams, ensuring the solution designed is delivered, and meets the
  

needs of Enterprise Architecture standards as well as the client and project team needs. However in doing so also achieve the balance
required to allow the project team to adapt the design as more information becomes available

• Interact with the Enterprise Architecture team to ensure the relevant architecture guidance is understood, appropriate to solutions and
  

help drive any change in strategy as required

• Participate and advise in the provision of estimates for size, effort and duration.
  
• Support the bid process for new business, acting as technical lead on input required to produce responses to client tenders and advising
  

on likely designs, scope, constraints and costs

• Retain technical knowledge and best practice to a high standard, allowing the solution architect role to inspire co-workers to attain goals
  

and pursue excellence

• Work with the Principal Solution Architect to identify, revise and enhance software development life-cycle procedures and best practices
  

relating to solution design and ensure these are followed

• Provide reports and metrics to the Principal Solution Architect\Head of System Design and Methodology as required

Requirements

• Ability to design appropriate software or database solutions following (but not constrained by) best practice and established standards to
  

ensure the creation of sustainable, low maintenance cost solutions

• Ability to troubleshoot existing or proposed solutions and designs, and recognize issues, obstacles and concerns early within the life-cycle
  
• Ability to interact successfully with clients and colleagues, both internal and external and at all levels within an organisation, to help
  

define, scope and build the solutions required

• Ability to operate as a technical design authority while also trusting, balancing and accepting the input and ideas of others involved in
  

the development process

• Ability to motivate and inspire people and teams and successfully champion improvements through, for example, the adoption of best
  

practices

• Passion for quality excellence and delivering the right thing
  
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people and
  

arrange unclear facts and concepts in a logical way

• Problem ownership and resolution, gets things done
  
• Ability to understand and present the business need and drivers behind suggestions (from both delivery and client functions)
  
• Ability to estimate work with an understanding for the challenges of producing estimates at different stages in the project life-cycle
  
• All of the above drawn from significant commercial experience as a solution architect role or similar involving taking the lead in
  

designing and implementing software\database solutions within a software development life-cycle

• Willingness to learn new technology skills to keep pace with improvements in IT solution development

Company offers

Callcredit offers a competitive package and a modern, friendly and dynamic team environment in which to work and develop your skills.

Additional information

If You are interested, please send Your CV in English with subject “SENIOR DATABASE DEVELOPER (SQL SERVER)” to cvLT@strategicstaff.com.
Confidentiality guaranteed. Only selected candidates will be informed.