EA Consultant

K20s Kinetic Technologies

The Consultant (EA) will be responsible for the following core activities:

• Architecture Development: Contributes to the development of architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas, leveraging appropriate tools and standard methods.

• Architecture Evaluation & Trade-offs: Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures, assessing the trade-offs regarding cost, performance, and scalability.

• Technical Specification: Produces detailed specifications for cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers, and interfaces, ensuring they are ready for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.

• Change Program Support: Supports change programs or projects by preparing technical plans and applying design principles that strictly comply with both enterprise and solution architecture standards, including security requirements.

• Quality Assurance: Participates actively in quality reviews of solution architecture components to ensure adherence to standards and best practices.

• Lessons Learned & Documentation: Contributes to formal reviews and evaluations upon project and program completion. Documents and socializes the lessons learned from the architecture development lifecycle.

• Innovation & Brainstorming: Makes useful and constructive contributions to technical brainstorming sessions and problem-solving initiatives.

• Research & Knowledge Acquisition: Acquires, under guidance, essential knowledge and understanding of the research field being studied relevant to Enterprise Architecture.

• Technology Awareness: Maintains an awareness of current and emerging information and communications technologies (ICT) and identifies potential opportunities for the business to benefit positively from adopting such technologies.

• Technical Advisory: Provides advice, both reactively and pro-actively, to staff engaged in activities where the technical specialism is applicable, extending to IT staff and related areas such as budgetary and financial planning, litigation, legislation, and health and safety.