Associate Director, Technical Design & Architecture

Major accountabilities:

• Create and lead solution designs for internal customers
• Help scoping of requirements to meet business needs
• Develop project rationale and perform scoping assessments to determine feasibility of projects
• Participate in requirement gathering in global/regional workshops
• Peer review and sign off detailed designs by business. Ensure the overall user experience is taken into account when designing and deploying new solutions and services
• Ensure that detailed designs adhere to solution architecture design (i.e. high level conceptual design) and are traceable to functional as well as non-functional requirements in functional specification
• Take accountability to ensure adherence with Security and Compliance policies and procedures within Service Delivery scope
• Involved in decision making discussions with internal customer groups. Ensure implemented solutions are according to specifications and fit for purpose.
• Planning deployments together with Project Managers and Operations Team. Deployments between development environments and validation / productive orgs
• Review deployment packages with developers, Preparing checklists and scripts for manual deployments. Support documentation of deployments

Minimum Requirements:

• University degree in business/technical area adequate equivalent
• Fluent English both written and spoken
• 8+ years of experience in an solution design, business analyst or equivalent role
• Proven track rack record in large, preferably global, multi-team projects dealing with complex process areas and business groups
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication, presentation and writing skills
• Ability to work with others in a high paced, fluid, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team. Attention to detail and organization
• Working under tight timelines without compromising quality. Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills at all management levels
• Stakeholder management skills. Ability to operate in matrix organization effectively
• Strong can-do attitude and results-focused and Eventual travel (with alignment)