Solution Architect

at  AMP Limited

DESCRIPTION OF DIVISION AND BUSINESS UNIT

The CTO function is the technical, operational, and project delivery hub of AMP, partnering with AMP business units to design, deliver and manage innovative technology and operational solutions that meet the current and future needs of customers. Our vision is to be recognised as AMP’s technology innovators and integrators, applying world-class best practice standards and processes within AMP’s operations.

WORKING AT AMP

We are transforming our business. We are looking for people with courage, accountability and integrity who inspire the same in others. If you are comfortable challenging the status-quo and perform at your best in an evolving and complex environment - we need you.

• Key Enterprise Architecture questions are identified early and resolved with support from the AMP Enterprise Architecture team.
• The role also includes project governance to ensure alignment to agreed enterprise architecture strategy.
• Consulting to Project Managers, IT Managers, and their teams in the development of key business solutions and technical architecture deliverables.
• Assist in the creation and development of enterprise roadmaps, including documenting target architectures and strategies, and ensuring alignment with and enablement of business strategy.
• High Level Solution Architecture that complies with AMP architecture standards
• Lead Architecture Compliance Reviews and document all findings including exemptions and supporting arguments.
• Represent architecture and issues during development and decision points of the project, including representation on Project and Review Committees
• Lead the development of Architecture Impact Assessment, Architecture Definition and Architecture Compliance Review documents, to ensure business and non-functional requirements are addressed and all stakeholders are engaged.
• Identify and reconcile conflicting concerns of different stakeholders and identify and quantify the trade-offs.
• Ensuring the integrity of the architecture, satisfactorily identifying, and reconciling any conflicting concerns of different stakeholders, and showing the trade-offs made in so doing.
• Manage the solution definition process ensuring the completeness (fitness-for-purpose) of business application architecture blueprints and specifications, in terms of adequately addressing business and system requirements, and any corresponding concerns of the applications’ business sponsors, user groups and stakeholders
• Liaise with business and technical stream leads to communicate solution architecture and to manage the process of changes and issue resolution.
• Provide an understanding across the AMP landscape including areas such as financial services trends e.g., robo-advice and technology trends e.g., cloud computing.
• Contribute to the development of IT@AMP’s architectural practices, techniques, and tools