Solution Architect Resume Sample

Working as a Solutions Architect in IT Delivery team for the whole European group, I am responsible for delivering architecture guidelines for web and digital deliveries, designing new and innovative solutions to challenges in company and provide support and results in following areas:

- Leading a transformation of current On-Premise services to cloud including the infrastructure and networking design, selection of Platform-as-a-Service offerings, providing integration to Software-as-a-Service offerings

- Starting the DevOps culture including Continuous Integration & Delivery, bringing the automated infrastructure tools to existing teams and setting guidelines and standards to promote the new software conventions

- Providing the framework for collaboration of multiple in-house and vendor development teams

Working as a Czech market team leader of Solution Architecture & Development team in IT Delivery, I was responsible for a team of 3 solution architects and 4 developers (spanning internal employees and contractors) in following areas:

• Managing Czech Provident application architecture, integration principles and common architecture repository
• Delivering Solution Concepts, estimations and integration architecture for group-wide and local projects and programs (see below)
• Leading an In-House development team using Kanban methodology, providing coaching to new members of the team and setting the development standards

The projects delivered or worked upon include:

• Strategic Digital Platform - introducing a new product concept for home credit, me and my team responsible for integration architecture, financial reporting, call-centre systems integration and bringing the legacy and digital systems to same level of features
• Agent Technology & Mobility - bringing market solution across the group to new markets, providing a common integration platform for mobile applications, developing a hybrid Android/iOS application for sales team

Working as a Solution Architect in Czech and Slovak Provident's IT Development team, I was responsible for delivering enterprise and application architecture as well as providing analytical and development delivery for selected projects. My responsibilities included:

• Creating and updating a centralized architectural repository of Czech and Slovak market including enterprise and application architecture in Sparx EA
• Creating solution design for desired projects and programs, including detailed integration design including estimations and participating in vendor selection
• Analyzing business requirements to provide functional specification
• Leading a development team on given project and developing desired functionalities
• Working with vendor on specifying and accepting a delivery

The projects delivered for the team included:

• Agent Cockpit application - a hybrid iOS/Android application for sales force; the application was developed and deployed to all sales staff
• New Product proposition - a complex product to introduce a new products to Provident "Modrá půjčka / Zelená půjčka, used by Provident till today, the delivery included a new architecture for handling bank transfer loans (spanning bank systems and CRM integration), a tax and accounting integration, new sales tools as SPA applications
• Organization Design project - a reorganization project introducing new sales tools and changes to CRM design
• Lead Management - introduction of ESB to the application architecture and new backend integration systems

The deliveries included collaboration with several Provident's vendor on architecture and development.

Developing server-side solutions (.NET & WCF, MS SQL, SSIS) for internal projects, developing client-side solution (ASP.NET, jQuery & REST, ReactJS) for employees and agents; producing functional specifications and detail designs (ArchiMate, Enterprise Architect) of new software; processing change management to legacy applications; providing L3 support for new and legacy products.

Succesfully deployed solutions include:

• IT backing of project "Prepaid Cards in Provident Slovakia" including automatic book-keeping and reconcilliation system, integration platform between card vendor, call center and accounting, client statement distribution
• new "collection of claims" system implementation including integration platform between two vendors based on NoSQL and REST, support of migration and production L3 support
• identity management system synchronization between HR and IT systems
• Android app (Cordova, Ionic Framework & AngularJS) for Provident's agent supporting existing business processes
• datamart layer (MS SQL, SSIS) of DWH from Provident's primary IS

My responsibilities also included the work with vendors, both local to Czech & Slovakia as well as offshore (Indian) companies, through the whole process of designing outsourced solution, working with teams on detail design and final acceptance of delivered solution into testing.