Director Solution Architect

At adidas, our love for sport drives who we are and what we do. But just as a ball is more than leather and thread, and a show more than padding and plastic, we are bigger than our products. We don't just work to create faster shoes and lighter fabrics. We strive to help athletes everywhere perform their best. We believe that it's hard work inventing the future of sport, and that's why we love it; that when you push your limits, you make it possible for others to push theirs.
We believe that through Sport, we have the power to change lives.- Director Solution Architecture - Digital Workplace- Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

- The design and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. In addition to technology components, solution architecture encompasses changes to service, process, organization, and operating models. The provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards, and practices (including security) and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.
- Key Responsibilities:

- Specialist advice
- Actively maintains recognized expert level knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
- Provides definitive and expert advice in their specialist area(s).
- Oversees the provision of specialist advice by others, consolidates expertise from multiple sources, including third party experts, to provide coherent advice to further organizational objectives.
- Supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organization.
- RESEARCH
- Builds on and refines appropriate outline ideas for the evaluation, development, demonstration, and implementation of research.
- Contributes to research goals and funding proposals.
- Collects and analyses qualitative and quantitative data as required.
- Creates research reports to communicate research methodology, findings, and conclusions.
- Presents papers at conferences, contribute significant sections of material of publication quality, and presents reports to clients.
- Contributes to research plans and identifies appropriate opportunities for publication and dissemination of research findings.
- Makes an active contribution to research communities.
- Emerging technology monitoring
- Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
- Assesses and documents the impacts, threats, and opportunities to the organization.
- Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
- Solution architecture
- Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas.
- Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
- Within a change program, leads the preparation of technical plans and, in liaison with business assurance and project staff, ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
- Provides advice on technical aspects of solution development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
- Business analysis
- Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
- Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration.
- Works with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.
- Contributes to selection of the business analysis methods, tools, and techniques for projects, selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION AND MANAGEMENT
- Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for large, complex initiatives.
- Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
- Obtains input from, and formal agreement to, requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.
- Establishes requirements baselines.
- Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.
- Contributes to the development of organizational methods and standards.
- SYSTEMS DESIGN
- Adopts and adapts appropriate systems design methods,