Solution Architect – Pretoria
IT
Pretoria – Gauteng
Solution Architect
Pretoria
Salary – Market Related
Department – Enterprise Architecture Office
Reports to – Head Enterprise Architect
About the Position:
Design technology solutions for the organisation by defining integrated solution architectures that are aligned with IT strategies and architectures to meet and support the organisation’s goals.
Key Performance Areas:
Solution Architecture:
- Define and design solutions that encompass all architecture domains and in line with business requirements, enterprise architecture principles and ICT standards to ensure standardisation and risk management.
- Review and ensure solution architecture designs provide seamless integration, scalability, and security in accordance with the prescribed enterprise architecture.
- Update and maintain the architecture repository with all architecture artifacts as part of architecture implementation governance.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks and issues related to solutions
- Participate in the continuous improvement of solutions and their components.
- Contribute to the development and/or evaluation of Terms of Reference documents to assist business and ICT teams during RFI and RFP process.
- Take accountability for the end-to-end delivery of solution/applications/systems and ensure alignment to the approved architecture.
- Keep up to date with the latest technology trends and bring innovative ideas on how the best solutions can be brought into the organisation.
- Align designed solution with the overall business strategy and ensure it delivers business value.
Stakeholder Management:
- Work closely with ICT and business stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure that the solution meets the agreed upon requirements.
- Work within budget constraints and manage resources efficiently.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with the various teams and stakeholders.
Education/Skills/Experience:
- A Degree in Computer Science
- TOGAF Certification is a requirement. Knowledge of other frameworks (e.g., Zachman) would be an advantage.
- Minimum three (3) years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture tools like Case wise, Visio, or Sparx Enterprise Architect.
- Minimum ten (6) years’ experience working in development and integration of large-scale solutions involving multiple technologies, functions, and interfaces across in-house and vendor supplied system.
- Minimum ten (6) years’ experience with best practices and design patterns when designing distributed systems, systems integrations and microservices.
- Minimum three (6) years’ experience in designing solutions (business, data, application, infrastructure and security domains) as a Solution Architect.
- In-depth understanding (and expertise in at least one) in system analysis, software development, databases, networks, security, and infrastructure.
- Solid knowledge in development of system requirements from business requirements specification documents including server infrastructure, capacity planning, storage requirements, virtualisation and networking protocols for cloud and/or on-premises environments.
- In-depth understanding of cloud architecture, with a focus on Azure. This includes cloud infrastructure, scalability, monitoring and security within solution architecture designs.
- Ability to guide project teams to ensure that solutions are developed and deployed in accordance with approved solution architecture.
- Solid knowledge in one or more of the following technology concepts: Big Data, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, AI, Data Mining, ETL for cloud and/or on-premises environments.
- Ability to recognise functional interdependencies, to assimilate and correlate disconnected procedures and process, and articulate their collective relevance to the organisation.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams
Behavioural Competencies:
- Customer Service: Knows the customer’s business and/or seeks information about the real underlying needs of the customer, beyond those initially expressed.
- Flexibility: Decides how to do something based on the situation at hand.
- Impact and Influence: Adapts a presentation or discussion to appeal to the interest or level of others.
- Organisational commitment: Acts to support the organisations mission and goals.
- Commitment to professional learning: Keeps up to date with international trends that will have an impact on the field of expertise.
- Teamwork: Publicly credits others who have performed well.
- Analytical thinking: Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements into detail, showing causal relationships between them.
- Achievement orientation: Sets and works to meet challenging goals.
- Initiative: Demonstrates the ability to anticipate and proactively manage all the variables involved, to ensure that critical opportunities are not missed.
- Tenacity: Anticipates and takes action to create an opportunity or avoid future crisis , looking ahead within a three-month timeframe.
Working Conditions:
- Will be required to work long hours when necessary.
Please Note: Should you not receive feedback within 3 months, please consider your application as unsuccessful.
