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The Digital Solutions Architect is expected to closely collaborate with team leaders, project managers, and staff of UNDP programmes and projects to which he/she is rendering services and outputs.

Duties and Responsibilities of Digital Solutions Architect

Lead the process of determining business needs to understand the objectives of project partners and to identify areas where digital solutions are needed.

• Design and co-lead consultations, discovery workshops, and other meetings to assess needs, define digitalization objectives, and map requirements;
• Assess the readiness of partners for digitalization, including the openness to reform manual processes into digital, and the technical capacity of manpower and infrastructure;
• With internal and external partners, co-develop Digital Solutions Roadmaps that include an assessment of the current state of digitalization, the potential benefits and risks of digitalizing systems, and capacities that need to be built.

Translate the digitalization goals of partners into requirement specification with accompanying strategy for contracting the required service providers.

• Conduct market research and scoping of available technologies and applications, with focus on digital public goods, that can be deployed for particular digital projects;
• Craft technical specifications, terms of reference (TOR), and other documents for consultation with and submission to the UNDP procurement team;
• Support the process of procuring firms, consultants, and other contractors by, among others, serving as expert technical resource to evaluation panels.

Provide quality assurance on the work and deliverables of firms, consultants, and other contractors that UNDP hired to develop, implement, maintain, and hand-over digital solutions. 

• Review the technical and other substantive aspects of the outputs delivered by contractors at key stages of the development process against the desired specifications;
• Assist both partner and contractor in user acceptance testing and other quality assurance activities, and guide and oversee the contractor in improving their outputs according to partner feedback;
• Assist both partner and contractor to ensure a smooth handover of the digital solution, including but not limited to assisting in the conduct of capacity building activities.

Provide other strategic support to UNDP as it strengthens its digital services offer to partners.

• Assist the Digitalization and Data Analytics Specialist and the Senior Digital Solutions Architect in the strategic management of the country office’s digitalization and analytics portfolio and strategy that should advance the UNDP Philippines’ development agenda as reflected in its Country Programme 2024-2028;
• Support UNDP Impact Advisory Team (IAT) and programme teams in pursuit of opportunities for digitalization efforts particularly in engaging partners, scoping donor interest, and developing project proposals;
• Collaborate with Pintig Lab in the solutions architecture aspects of efforts to strengthen the SDG data ecosystem, including but not limited to managing its own data repositories;

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Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree) in information management, statistics, computer science, information technology, sustainable development, economics, data science, social sciences, or related fields, OR
• First-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in fields mentioned above in combination with additional two (2) years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advance university degree.

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations, advocacy, or communications in enterprise and solutions architecture, digital projects management, software product development, data governance, and other related information and communications technology (ICT) roles.
• Knowledge and experience in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) or similar framework for solutions and enterprise architecture.
• Training and experience in applying relevant software project management approaches, such as but not limited to Agile Project Management and the Project Management Body of Knowledge.
• Knowledge and experience in Human Centered Design, Service Design, System Design, and other design thinking-based processes and approaches.
• Exposure to and experience with Digital Public Goods including but not limited to the development and/or reuse of free and open-source software.
• Knowledgeable with issues on data and digital rights, including but not limited to the protection of data privacy, and the inclusion of marginalized groups in digitalization efforts.
• Experience in the private sector, government, and international development organizations.

Required Languages:

• Fluency in spoken and written English and Filipino is required.

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