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The key deliverable of this role is to provide a set of technological solutions and the strategy of their implementation while minimizing technical debt.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nAnalyzing enterprise specifics - Facilitate the identification and analysis of the Bank’s business drivers to deliver enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements.\nSolution Design - End-to-end solution & architecture design for assigned projects and initiatives and ensuring solution design alignment between stakeholders before implementation.\nAnalyzing and documenting requirements - Elicit business requirements using interviews, analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis. \nSetting the collaboration framework- Liaise with the business subject matter experts in the development of clear roadmaps of business solutions.\nAnalyzing the technology environment - Provide an analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement vis a vis information technology systems enhancement.\nControlling solution development - Participate in solution developments to ensure technical (as documented in solution designs) and business requirements are adhered to. 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