Enterprise Solution Architect at Plan International

Plan International

Enterprise Solution Architect
Enterprise Solution Architect at Plan International June 2024
Location: Flexible, Flexible
Company: Plan International
The Organisation
Plan
International is an independent development and humanitarian
organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We
believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often
suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s
girls who are most affected. Working together with children, young
people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world,
tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all
vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth
until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and
respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and
policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience
and knowledge. We have been building powerful partnerships for children
for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.
The IT solution team
adopts a technology focused approach in delivering business benefit.
Plan business teams engage with us to solve their most complex problems,
help shape technology strategies and most importantly, to deliver those
strategies through modern technology solutions.

The Opportunity
This
is an exciting opportunity for someone with extensive experience of
solutions architecture and oversight, who will act confidently as a
direction setter and subject matter expert, engaging positively with key
business and technical stakeholders.

The Solution Architect
role underscores the importance of comprehensive data and digital
solution design to ensure a cohesive and well-managed architecture for
the organisation, supporting its long-term operations. Through the
adoption of a modular approach specifically tailored to the systems
within the organisation, this position aims to enhance adaptability,
scalability, and sustainability. Its scope extends to encompassing the
broader global strategic and operational architecture.

Key Accountabilities
Your
subject matter and anticipated outcomes may differ greatly from one
project to another. This versatility in role presents fresh and
compelling prospects, necessitating a keen ability to adjust. Your
capacity to adapt will be crucial as the expectations vary. Depending on
the project, you will be expected to:

• Support Plan in creating and assessing their global technology
  strategies and roadmaps, ensuring they are investing in the right
  technology and delivering in the right order.
• Support delivery
  programs by crafting contemporary and innovative Solution Architectures
  and Technical Designs tailored to the scope of work, collaborating with
  business owners, analysts, development teams, and program managers.
• Persistently
  engage in learning, refinement, and adaptation to the evolving demands
  of the business. Explore new subject areas as needed, such as novel
  products and services or solutions aimed at addressing humanitarian
  crises.
• Fulfil the role of a technology leader, providing
  support to Plan throughout project/program lifecycle, including
  discovery, requirements gathering, solution design and development,
  end-to-end testing, process definition, change management, and go-live.
• Take
  a technical lead role in projects or other initiatives to ensure all
  requirements, including functional, integration, security, performance,
  quality, and operations are covered
• Responsible to ensure that
  the architecture requirements for the development, execution, and
  operations are implemented as designed
• Lead the IT Architecture
  analysis, design, and implementation, and ensure that policies and
  standards are followed in respective area
• Support development of architecture reference architecture, including standards and in management of exemptions
• Offer
  technical governance, across projects and operations ensuring solution
  quality assurance through design reviews that adhere to industry best
  practices and standards.
• Analyse technical dependencies to grasp
  enterprise-wide connections, assess the impacts of changes or delays,
  identify technology risks, issues, and technical debt, and provide
  insights into areas of IT fragility for inclusion in the IT backlog of
  work.
• Defining and implementing an Integrated architecture
  roadmap with sound enterprise application integration (EAI) standards
  for the organisation
• Drive a sound architecture roadmap,
  proactively addressing any uncertainties in solutions, guiding and
  influencing towards successful business outcomes and risk mitigation.
• Evaluate requests for new technology against the existing Plan technical landscape and provide recommendations for selections.
• Oversee governance activities aimed at ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
• Lead and guide to uphold solution integrity, ensuring adherence to requirements.

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Please follow this link for a full role profile; Plan Solution Architect May 2024.docx

Location: The
location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an
office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the
pre-existing right to work and live.

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions.

Salary:
We will be happy to disclose the salary and applicable benefits to
applicants as part of this process, however, please kindly note that the
salary and employment benefits will be set according to your location
and therefore it is not possible to include full details here.

Closing Date: Monday 8th July
*Applicable locations include:
Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso,
Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia,
Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia,
Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong
Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos,
Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger,
Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.
We
want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we
work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age,
disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership,
pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual
orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of
inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures
every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse
people, thoughts, and ideas.
We foster an organisational culture
that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’
rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a
world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to
ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep
children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to
children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in
any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A
range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with
Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan
International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants
previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual
abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under
investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an
application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these
recruitment procedures.
Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.