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Solution Architecture

Solution Architecture combines the variety of viewpoints within a project, programme or organisation, on Business, Information & Technology. Its outcome is the definition of a specific optimal solution that will maximise current and future business value.

The Solution Architect will take responsiblity of the following:

• Provide input to the strategic or tactical direction of technology investments to assist in the development of a technical solution and maximise the return on investment
• Review, interpret and respond to detailed business requirements / specifications to ensure the alignment between customer expectations and current or future ICT capability
• Concentrate on effective design and risk analysis
• Define and design technology solutions that can fit within the agreed Enterprise Architecture, to assist the business in meeting their business objectives
• Develop, test and implement technology solutions and report on delivery commitments to ensure solutions are implemented as expected and to agreed timeframes

Key factors of success will be:

• Adherence to established methodologies, frameworks and best practices in Solution Architecture and Enterprise Architecture
• Technical expertise in identified domains
• Understanding of business requirements right to infrastructure, implementation, support and Business As Usual

Technical Business Analysis

Technical Business Analysis extends classical Business Analysis to the complete analysis of processes, requirements, systems, data, applications or infrastructure capabilities to identify organisation's needs and facilitate changes.

The Technical Business Analyst will take responsiblity of the following:

• Question, discover, elicit, select business requirements to define detailed requirements and manage their realisation
• Define reporting and Management Information solutions
• Provide adecuate support to Solution Architecture and check that solution are fit for purpose
• Help design, document and maintain system processes
• Supervises testing phases, User Acceptance and Model Office tests
• Report on technical issues and recommend to product teams
• Communicate key insights and findings

Key factors of success will be:

• Adherence to current frameworks and best practices, such as the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK from International Institute of Business Analysts)
• An extended experience in the development and configuration of a variety of business systems
• Proficiency in different native languages
• Ability to become a conduit of understanding between different project participants

Business Systems Integration

Business Systems Integration is concerned with the optimal transformation of an organisation's processes and investment on information systems into flexible architectures, extensible & cost-effective innovative solutions.

Key areas of expertise provided will be:

• Enterprise Application Integration
• Service Oriented Architectures
• Middleware design patterns such Service Bus, Event-Driven, Model Driven Architecture, SOA proxies
• Master Data Management for Customers or Products
• Analysis of As-Is and To-Be landscapes
• Analysis of enterprise-wide business entities
• Integration methodologies such as Contract definition, Canonical Modelling
• Web services and APIs
• Middleware technologies: Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle ESB, Oracle SOA, Talend, Dataflux
• Data and Data Quality analysis
• Business Activity Monitoring

Financial systems

The analysis of financial systems or applications and finance processes are essential to seel optimal integration between disparate technologies into financial flows of information.

Key areas of expertise provided will be:

• Understanding of the main finance processes in large organisations
• Procurement, invoicing, purchasing, accounting, cash management etc and their e- implementations
• Chart of Accounts
• Oracle 11i and R12 e-Business Suite: Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, HR, iExpenses, Project Accounting, Oracle Tax
• Understanding of the main data entities that fund data stores, datawarehouses, information management and monitoring
• Technical analysis applied to the selection of new systems
• Planning for the future: technologies and integration

Web technologies & Mobile

Web & Mobile technologies are at the en-user integrated side of an architected solution. An adecuate design of this visible applicative layer helps you imagine and accelerate your digital journey - end user design & development.

Key areas of expertise provided will be:

• Standardised design of web applications running on standardised modern technologies
• Responsive applications leveraging the development investment to a variety of consumming technologies: mobiles, tablets, desktops
• Mobile Apps
• Wrapped up mobile applications

Software engineering

Software engineering applies the principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing and maintenance of new software components.

The Software Engineer (or Functional Analyst, or Technical Analyst) will take responsiblity of the following:

• Transform detailed business requirements into Functional requirements
• Create use cases, scenarios or stories, backlogs and issues
• Build technical specifications
• Design databases
• Ensure interoperability
• Deliver security
• Evaluate and implement Non Functional Requirements
• Develop, programme, unit-test
• Build functional or operational Test Plans
• Ensure User Acceptance

Key areas of expertise provided from the extensive practice of:

• Jacobsson & Use Case analysis
• Waterfall / RUP
• Agile
• Design patterns
• UML (Unified Modelling Language)
• Database design
• Full Software Development Life Cycle
• Java/J2EE
• Web application development in Java, Spring, PHP etc

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