Is Solution Architect

**IS Solution Architect**:
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The primary role of the IS Integration Solution Architect is to be responsible for the definition and delivery of Integration technology and architecture related elements. They are the representative/spokesperson for several Integration Services within the Organization. The Integration Solution Architect has visible and expert leadership in integration technology trends, architecture, delivery, stakeholder management, customer and process excellence.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Facilitates integration service triage related conversations
- Represents the front face of integration to the customer
- Collects and analyzes business and technical requirements
- Translates business requirements into functional requirements and creates integration inventory, API (Application Programming Interface) catalogue and flows to define scope
- Proposes integration patterns that best meet integration requirements
- Proposes criteria-based integration solutions and ranks them according to the business need highlighting risks, pros, and cons for each solution
- Estimates complexity of integrations
- Defines and design blueprints for integration assets (e.g., reference architectures) and accelerators
- Supports automation and DevOps related activities as part of continuously improving the service
- Keeps knowledge up to date regarding new and emerging IS technology and IS industry practices, bringing learning into ABB; all within in the scope of the relevant IS solutions.
- Participation in a broader solution development framework community of practices.
- Collaborates with GBS IS Capabilities and Service Performance Excellence team to improve, define, maintain and optimize building processes and standard.
- Adherence to Corporate IS Policies and Procedures, as well as to both internal regulations and external legislation falls within the area of responsibility of this job.
- Provides guidance to IS Service Delivery unit team and to IS Project Management in how to utilize IS Application / Solution standards effectively
- Communicates project delivery related decision demand towards project and service management in collaboration with IS Lead Architect to ensure resolution and avoid delivery issues
- Commits and contributes to common result oriented collaboration with the various business processes IS architectural domains as well as the various enterprise technology IS architecture domains
- For assigned tasks, executes all actions in IS processes according to agreed RACIS specification
- In concert with IS Lead Architects ensures that IS Solution/Service related standards are considered accordingly
- Provides leadership to temporary work teams, guiding and monitoring task completion, sharing expert knowledge and advice normally without carrying line responsibility.

**Your background**:

- Master’s Degree in Information Management, Computer Systems, Business Engineering or similar preferred
- 5 plus years of relevant experience
- Experience in Integration Architecture discipline
- Experience in system engineering and service mesh, emerging architecture patterns like Microservices, and linking of integration elements into wider architecture
- Ability to demonstrate related experience working with leading integration technologies/vendors (MuleSoft, Biztalk, Azure App functions, SAP PI)
- Experience with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), Event Driven, Streaming, ETL (Extract Transform Load) and batch patterns
- Experience with formal Program Management methodologies (e.g., Prince2, Agile)
- Experience in managing complex stakeholder relationships in a corporate environment
- Business requirements analysis - proven ability to understand the customers/consumers needs and translate into integration inventory and requirement
- Rationalize integration requirements to build simple, efficient, scalable, and supportable future-proofed integration designs
- Knowledge of integration technologies, patterns, and strategies
- Outstanding communication and presentations skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into easy-to-understand business customer friendly outputs
- Solid people management skills - ability to draw out problems, involve and gain commitment from the relevant stakeholders in the business with credibility and gravitas to establish trust, gain consensus and buy-in, orchestrate engagement and collaborate with senior stakeholders
- Ability to act independently and demonstrate a pro-active mindset
- Strong in ideation r