The Client Solution / Business Architect …….. A business focused architecture role, accountable for the creation and ownership of client, sector, and market solution strategy, creating Experian’s single UK&I reference architecture. Feeding into and underpinning solution design for specific Client Opportunities and market strategy for the sector.
Our team connects with our customers to understand and translate the desired customer outcomes, and orchestrate resources to make that vision a reality.
You will be responsible for advising, coaching and leading internal partners, aligning Experian’s capability with the customer’s business problems
The Role
We are looking for you to embed into our customer’s industry and business, and promote Experian’s capability to help them achieve their business goals.
The broad scope of responsibility of this role requires a solid understanding of both business and technology strategy, change management, and a principled approach to broad transformational challenges and opportunities.
You may also share a common set of characteristics - such as strong leadership and people skills and bring the experience that drives innovation and customer value.
Champion a culture that challenges mindsets to achieve the business goals, delights customers and keeps consumer advocacy at the heart of everything that Experian does.
Ensure that positive market / client / consumer outcomes are at the centre of decision making.
Promote great service and seek to exceed customer expectations.
Develop a positive reputation for UK Solutions as the driver of Client solutions and as a valued partner to Go To Market & Product Businesses.
Could this role be for you ?
Empowerment to make major disruptions and changes to the business architecture that transforms industry solutions.
An opportunity to create and deliver an end to end technology roadmap that enables our customers to do business with Experian like never before in an outcome focused, capability driven way.
Solution Transformation
Disrupting the mindset of customers and sales teams by bringing innovative ideas that showcase Experian’s unique value proposition.
Developing the design and delivery of end to end solutions that have a measurable impact upon customer’s desired outcomes.
Work alongside the Go To Market teams and Product Businesses to ensure overall solution consistency and optimisation.
Develop and own the Sector Solution Roadmap, and UK&I reference architecture
Oversight of market offering in partnership with product communities, own appropriate deal governance, act as adviser to those accountable for delivery.
Accountabilities
Accountable for development of mid-to-long range Client/Market Solution strategy for allocated portfolio(s) spanning multiple product businesses as well as contributing to Client/opportunity-specific Solutions.
Contributing market & Client requirements to UK PCU Product Management to shape products that meet Client and Experian needs.
End to end ownership of all Solution Architecture designs that support our market propositions focus.
Support Pre-Sales, providing sector specialist expertise in developing prospects.
Understand high-level solution design principles and how they impact the commercial viability of a solution.
Recognised authority for Solution Design across the organisation and externally
Potential for direct reports
Experience
Proven B2B Solution Architect experience in a financial services or similar industry of mid-to-large sized organization i.e. Financial, Banking, Telco, Utilities, Insurance sectors, Solution Integrator.
Excellent stakeholder management with excellent verbal, written, presentation and meeting facilitation skills to ensure a clear unambiguous message is consistently delivered.
Experience of working with internal & external 'C’-level managers in setting out Solution Architecture vision and/or value proposition.
A self-starter with the ability to quickly understand the complexities of technology against the business need in order to find the best solution against the constraints of time, cost and quality.
Solid, assertive, motivational leader able to guide a team (often matrix) into reaching common goals.
Why choose us?
Our colleagues’ health and wellbeing is a top priority for us, that’s why our reward, benefits and wellbeing programmes are designed so you can come to work feeling your very best self. Our benefits focus on health, money and lifestyle so you can tailor your benefits to your own personal needs. W