Under the supervision of the CIO, the Platforms Architect will be responsible fo...
Under the supervision of the CIO, the Platforms Architect will be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining UNOPS core / foundation application platforms, services, components, and interfaces. The position is part of the Enterprise Architecture and Platforms team with members representing domain experts in specific areas of Enterprise Architecture and Platforms.
The Enterprise Architecture and Platforms team will act as the primary technical experts within the UNOPS ICT team. The team will provide a holistic approach to managing the complexity of IT from a business perspective. The team will document the structural and behavioural building blocks that make up the overall information system of the enterprises together with their relationships. In addition to this, the team will go beyond traditional EA to design and architect the future infrastructure, software, and platforms for use within UNOPS as well as provide standards for design and UX. The team will also be engaged in core development activities to build enterprise-wide platforms and components as well as digital visibility solutions.
The Platforms Architect is required to be intimately familiar with the organisation’s core platform(s) to create and optimize all the various functions needed to establish a strong set of foundation platforms and components that can be utilised throughout the enterprise either directly by end users or used by application developers to build specific business functionality using the foundation-level components. The Platforms Architect needs to be a big picture thinker and always keep the purpose / business objectives in mind as well as all standard architectural concerns such as scalability, reliance, reuse, etc. in mind. The Platforms Architect must be able to think out of the box and develop creative solutions.