Senior E-Commerce Solutions Architect

Tych Business Solutions; Durban; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

MR Price Group is seeking an innovative Solutions Architect focused on EComm to analyze available technologies, design and implement pragmatic technical solutions aligned with business goals. You will join a forward-thinking IT architecture team shaping the landscape across on-premise and multi-cloud platforms.

You will lead architectural design, governance, and guidance across projects, ensuring alignment with strategic initiatives and non-functional requirements while mentoring junior

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems.
• 5+ years’ experience in IT solutions development and 3-5 years experience in solutions architecture.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, analysis and design, system architecture design, inquisitive, methodical, analytical, critical thinking.
• Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models.
• Through understanding of EComm business domain; retail understanding advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services.
• Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth.
• Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions.
• Understanding non-functional requirements of a solution and mitigating risk by complying with governance and legislative requirements.
• Participate in selecting the most appropriate technology (platform, tech-stack, framework) for a solution, as well as balancing architectural guidelines of the corporate environment.
• Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy.
• Keep abreast of the latest changes & trends in IT architecture to provide insights and recommendations to the business in regard to optimisation, improvements or adoption of new tools and technologies.
• Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment.
• Contribute technical thought leadership to influence discussions and decision-making within the group.
• Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers to become Solution Architects.

Skills

Communication skills

System design

Architecture design

Analytical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems

Job description

MR Price Group is seeking an innovative Solutions Architect focused on EComm to analyze available technologies, design and implement pragmatic technical solutions aligned with business goals. You will join a forward-thinking IT architecture team shaping the landscape across on-premise and multi-cloud platforms.

You will lead architectural design, governance, and guidance across projects, ensuring alignment with strategic initiatives and non-functional requirements while mentoring junior