Specialized Solutions Architect

The SOLUTION ARCHITECT is responsible for translating the requirements created by functional analysts into the architecture for that solution and describing it through the set of architecture and design artifacts. Those artifacts are then used by the rest of the development team to implement the solution. The process of defining architecture by the solution architect often involves selection of the most appropriate technology for the problem being solved. Strong understanding and working knowledge of software engineering, software development, solution architecture and implementation of medium to large scale systems across multiple platforms.
DELIVERABLES:

• Determination of which products impacted
• Just Barely Good Enough design for handoff to responsible teams (incl. technical design document for anything that hits multiple teams)
• Handoff / discussion to socialize the design with the responsible teams

OUTPUTS:

• Reasonable confidence that downstream capabilities exist and will support the design (technical AND UX);
  • or call outs for those that don't and reasonable confidence that they *could* be built
• Proposed design (technical AND UX) can be built - supportable, maintainable, scalable

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Researches current downstream capabilities, makes suggestions/offers alternatives that may meet the spirit of the "requirements" (the problem statement) that do align to downstream capabilities
• Engages in the design process, offers potential solutions/influences the UX design in order to assure supportable/maintainable/scalable software
• Minimizes unicorn solutions, encourage re-use, require justification for inventing new patterns, strategies, duplicating functionality and/or concepts/patterns
• Considers the problem presented and collaborates to propose the best solution balancing technical soundness and usability
• Aware of best practices of designing RESTful APIs