Company Description
Experian Decision Analytics (DA) integrates predictive data and analytics into valuable business decisions that provide greater insight into decision performance and helps companies keep pace with changing business priorities. By applying expert consulting, analytical tools, software and systems to convert data into valuable business decisions.
Our expertise spans a variety of industries and we provide software to some of the world’s largest finance, telcos and other blue-chip companies. The crown jewel in our software suite is PowerCurve which provides best-in-class decisioning applied across the whole customer life cycle from customer acquisition to in-life and collections, as well as in fraud detection and identity resolution systems. PowerCurve can execute on hosted as well as cloud platforms.
Decision Analytics has laid the foundations to move from a collection of individual products towards a consolidated cloud-based platform delivering industry leading capabilities across data, analytics and decisioning, embedding latest technologies such as Big Data and ML/AI. We have good momentum and our core product has trebled in revenues over the last 3 years and are amid moving it to a global SaaS product.
Job Description
We're currently looking for a Solution architect to join our Global Delivery & Support Expert team to drive solution architecture covering Decisioning and ID&F portfolio. Lead the design and communication of high-level solutions architectures, which guide the design and development of solutions that meet DA business current and future needs. Take full responsibility for the architecture of a significant area of Solutions, design quick to market with higher speed to value solutions. This is a strategic role which reports into Solution Architect Manager and interacts with Global Experts (GSG/GDSG and EITS) to drive the architecture strategy for GDS.
This role will give you the opportunity to play a key role in our business growth. As a key partner of regional Sales, Product Management, programmers, and Delivery, working closely with Clients, you will represent the high authority for solution design of complex solutions, providing strategic client guidance on bridging the gap between business needs, technical issues, and benefits of Experian’s solutions.
Role Responsibilities:
- Accountable for design of regional/local Use Cases and Solutions
- Lead Solution Design Workshop with internal and external Clients
- Provide architectural rigour & re-use where possible around repeatable elements
- Accountable for development of Client/opportunity-specific Solutions
- Contributing market & Client requirements to Global Product Management & Global Software Architecture to shape products that meet Client and Experian needs
- Promote and justify development of generic/reusable solutions to ensure Client/opportunity-specific solutions are cost & schedule optimized
- Working alongside Sales & Presales to understand Client & Market drivers, requirements, and challenges
- Influence Clients at 'C'-level (esp. CTO/CIO) and below to shape Client architecture and landscape to optimize Experian's access to sell products/solutions
- Champion a culture that achieves the business goals, delights customers, and keeps consumer advocacy at the heart of everything that Experian does
- Major player in the production of proposals (RFP/I) and Deal/Opportunity Reviews
- Support Sales & Pre-Sales, providing Product/Service/Solution-based presentations/Demo and Solutioning expertise in developing prospects.
- Understand high-level solution design requirements and direct or produce associated sizing, costing estimates where required
- Provide and co-ordinate solution design input for all kind of SaaS solutions and propositions, including formal responses and client-facing workshops
Qualifications
Specialist Skills:
- Advanced knowledge of Software solution delivery and industry best practices
- Excellent communication and ability to influence across a matrix organization with an ability to craft delivery content/assets to highlight value propositions and solution options
- Customer-value and delivery outcome oriented with an ability to execute
- Ability to work with a virtual team and a complex ecosystem of stakeholders
- Superior and excellence in knowledge transfer capabilities, mentoring or peers and team members across business areas within the company
- A critical thinker with a natural leaning towards proactive way of working
- Significant consultancy experience to shape and elicit input/requirements to ensure the optimal design for client solution delivery against appropriate standards.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Working experience in systems development and project management disciplines within the context of agile teams
- Respectful and culturally conscientious with an ability to drive positive team working dynamics
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
Desired Skills:
- Proven Client-Solution Consultancy, solutions functional architecture experience in a financial services or similar industry of mid-to-large sized organization i.e., Financial, Banking, Telco, Utilities, Insurance sectors
- Experience of working with internal & external ‘C’-level managers in setting out Solution Architecture vision and/or value proposition
- Business and financial knowledge on credit loan decisioning, scoring and analytics · Technical knowledge on SaaS/Cloud technology like Docker/AWS platform, REST/JSON, SOAP Webservice, Microservices, Java technologies and working proficiency of any one of Python, NodeJS and SpingBoot
- Strong grasp of Cloud-based application deployment architectures
- Knowledge of SaaS/Cloud market, products and related industry practices, concepts, tools, and processes (e.g., DevOps)
- Understands Experian’s market space, the impact of emerging business trends/drivers and their implications
- Experience with key areas of enterprise architecture, including integration technologies · Strong grasp of Cloud-based application deployment architectures
- Proven ability to analyse, design, and optimize Client business processes via technology and integration
- Excellent stakeholder management with excellent verbal, written, presentation and meeting facilitation skills to ensure a clear unambiguous message is consistently delivered
- A self-starter with the ability to quickly understand the complexities of technology against the business need to find the best solution against the constraints of time, cost and quality.
- Ability to travel to client sites up to 30% if required
You must possess solid critical thinking ability, a proclivity to encourage collaborative efficiency and improvements, able to solve complex problems within the matrix structure, and especially quick to recommend and justify innovation and creative options as opportunities.
Additional Information
What do we offer:
- Fantastic learning and career development opportunities in a fast-growth and truly dynamic FTSE Top-100 business.
- Exposure to advanced technology and superb training; Experian has been listed in the worlds Top-100 Most Innovative Companies for 5 years running!
- Extensive benefits including bonus, share options scheme, generous pension and life assurance, 25 days holiday with 8-day buy/sell as well as a huge array of wider benefits and services.
- A positive, collegial, supportive and family focussed culture with well-being at it’s core and focus on flexibility and work-life balance.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
It is the policy of Experian to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. All employment practices such as recruitment, selection, promotions, and other terms and conditions of employment are administered in a manner designed to ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not subjected to discrimination on the basis of race, colour, national origin, ancestry, religion, citizenship, age, gender, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, protected veterans, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
Summary
- Type: Full-time
- Function: Engineering
