Head: Solutions Architecture

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments in Johannesburg seeks a Head of Solutions Architecture to lead the design of scalable platforms, migrating from legacy to modern architectures and aligning with strategic objectives.

The role requires strong analytical, technical and stakeholder management skills, with experience in JAD facilitation, TOGAF/Zachman, and cloud/microservices. You will shape requirements, create high-level designs, guide implementations, and participate in pre-sales.

Qualifications

• Excellent analytical, technical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Presentation and facilitation skills.
• Relating and networking.
• Leading and supervising.
• JAD (Group) facilitation sessions.
• TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent preferred.
• Microservices and Cloud experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• To support, create and migrate solutions from its current legacy architecture to its new modern platform architecture.
• Work with Strategic Growth to design solutions that meet the strategic objectives.
• Develop Requirements & Designs (both high level and detailed) in conjunction with Strategic Growth, Customer, Engineering.
• To provide architectural guidelines and ensure that architecture principles are adhered to in the development of solutions.
• To analyse and refine requirements for delivering the necessary technology service to business and serve as liaison to the business community.
• Support accurate and practical designs for complete end to end technical delivery ensuring that, at all stages in the development life cycle, solution design meets user requirements and is feasible.
• This will include, inter alia, development of user stories, test cases, etc
• To perform technical analysis in consultation with stakeholders (Technical architects, Product Managers, Operations team, Data and Infrastructure Architects), in order to refine high level business requirements into detailed technical requirements.
• Design scalable and robust Services and Applications that integrate across different technologies.
• Ensure that Legacy and Modern platforms integrate seamlessly.
• Provide high-level designs and guide low-level designs by engineering in response to business requirements and strategy.
• Ensure technical architectures and solutions are aligned with Group principles and technology guidelines.
• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog.
• To act as a technical liaison between business and the delivery team
• Lead pre-sales work.
• Build a pre-sales capability, including process, work flows, SLA and team management
• Draft and deliver proposals in conjunction with Sales, Strategic Growth and Engineering
• Build implementation capability for project-oriented customer projects (enterprise and data projects typically)

Skills

Analytical skills

Technical skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Decision making

Presentation skills

JAD facilitation

Leadership

JAD facilitation sessions

Networking

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

Microservices

Cloud

Job description

About the job Head: Solutions Architecture

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Requires excellent analytical, technical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Problem solving and decision-making skills
• Presentation and facilitations skills
• Relating and networking
• Leading and supervising
• JAD (Group) facilitation sessions
• TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent preferred
• Microservices and Cloud experience preferred.

Responsibilities:

• To support, create and migrate solutions from its current legacy architecture to its new modern platform architecture
• Work with Strategic Growth to design solutions that meet the strategic objectives
• Develop Requirements & Designs (both high level and detailed) in conjunction with Strategic Growth, Customer, Engineering
• To provide architectural guidelines and ensure that architecture principles are adhered to in the development of solutions.
• To analyse and refine requirements for delivering the necessary technology service to business and serve as liaison to the business community.
• Support accurate and practical designs for complete end to end technical delivery ensuring that, at all stages in the development life cycle, solution design meets user requirements and is feasible.
• This will include, inter alia, development of user stories, test cases, etc
• To perform technical analysis in consultation with stakeholders (Technical architects, Product Managers, Operations team, Data and Infrastructure Architects), in order to refine high level business requirements into detailed technical requirements.
• Design scalable and robust Services and Applications that integrate across different technologies.
• Ensure that Legacy and Modern platforms integrate seamlessly.
• Provide high-level designs and guide low-level designs by engineering in response to business requirements and strategy.
• Ensure technical architectures and solutions are aligned with Group principles and technology guidelines.
• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog.
• To act as a technical liaison between business and the delivery team
• Lead pre-sales work.
• Build a pre-sales capability, including process, work flows, SLA and team management
• Draft and deliver proposals in conjunction with Sales, Strategic Growth and Engineering
• Build implementation capability for project-oriented customer projects (enterprise and data projects typically)