Skill description
Developing and communicating a multi-dimensional solution architecture to deliver agreed business outcomes.
Guidance notes
Activities may include, but are not limited to:
- defining the planned operation and maintenance of the solution within a production environment, including changes to services, processes, organisation and operating models as well as technology .
- ensuring existing and planned solution components are compatible with relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices .
- considering requirements for security, privacy and testing of solutions.
- taking account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices .
- identifying appropriate cloud services, evaluating their cost implications and optimising for cost-efficiency.
- developing roadmaps to migrate components to cloud services.
- developing and communicating an implementation roadmap .
- providing guidance and risk-based governance to support solution implementation including managing requests for changes and deviations from specifications.
Level 4Enable
Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
Determines and documents architecturally significant decisions.
Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
Supports projects or change initiatives through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles.
Aligns solutions with enterprise and solution architecture standards (including security).
Level 5Ensure, advise
Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
Leads the preparation of technical plans and ensures appropriate technical resources are made available.
Ensures appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration.
Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
Ensures relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security and cost management) are applied correctly.
Level 6Initiate, influence
Leads the development of architectures for complex solutions ensuring consistency with agreed requirements.
Establishes policies, principles and practices for the selection of solution architecture components.
Manages trade-offs and balances functional, service quality, cost efficiency and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
Communicates proposed decisions to stakeholders.
Coordinates and manages the target architecture across multiple projects or initiatives.
Maintains a stable, viable architecture and ensures consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.
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