Senior IT Solutions Architect & Integration Lead

The Focus Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Focus Group is seeking a senior IT professional to provide guidance on technology integration while ensuring compliance with governance and legislation. The role requires at least 10 years of IT experience, including 2 in a senior capacity.

Key responsibilities include advising on technology use, maintaining SLA requirements, and driving transformation through the integration of multiple technologies. Relevant qualifications and extensive knowledge in banking and business acumen are essential.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in an IT environment, with at least 2 years in a senior role.
• Accredited certifications where applicable including JMP or MMP.
• Strong understanding of relevant software and systems knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on technology integration following governance and legislation.
• Consult and advise on the use of multiple technologies.
• Ensure ongoing availability within SLA requirements.

Skills

Banking knowledge

Business Acumen

Service oriented Architecture (SOA)

Risk management process and frameworks

Technical/Professional Knowledge

Systems Analysis and design

Education

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Job description

Job Purpose

To provide guidance and advice related to the integration of solutions across technologies; ensuing all outputs are following current governance and legislation and provide IT leadership based on IT and business acumen

Job Responsibilities

• Consult and provide advice on the use of the multiple technologies. Address the needs of the bank by deploying, supporting and configuring multiple technologies.
• Develop solutions using knowledge of the technologies.
• Ensure ongoing availability within the SLA requirements.
• Ensure maximum exploitation of the multiple technology features across multiple business initiatives. Identify further opportunities for use of the technologies.
• Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth. Understand and embrace the organization vision and values, leading by example.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems. Participate in Research and Development related to specific.
• Ensure alignment with emerging technologies, and impact on company technologies and legislative requirements.
• Provide problem solving in high impact incidents.
• Present to stakeholders on any impact or change to multiple technologies. Engage with vendors related to multiple technologies.
• Meet bank's needs by presenting on the exploitation of the technologies.
• Become a trusted consultant by providing trustworthy information and acknowledge if advice cannot be provided.
• Expand IP beyond own technology specialty.
• Break down components of end-to-end design and defined logical units of work.
• Raise unallocated or missing components of design with project lead. Validate the individual design components and integrate these into end-to-end design.
• Ensure test strategy covers full end to end design.
• Provide integration solutions and validate the technical component design. Review and approve component designs.
• Consult on the resolution of high impact problem solving across. Participate in Severities (Sev's) and provide expert guidance and solutions on technical problems.
• Provide the application flow.
• Document and maintain the end-to-end design.
• Build end to end design and release to stakeholders. Ensure alignment to IT strategy to architecture roadmaps. Upskill all stakeholders. Lead end to end design on project.
• Ensure awareness of Group Technology initiatives and standards. Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
• Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes to improve stakeholders' businesses.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Essential Certifications

• Accredited where formal expert certification on technology is available JMP or MMP or equivalent

Minimum Experience Level

• 10- 15 years’ experience in an IT environment across infrastructures of which at least 2 years in a senior role from feeder areas

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Banking knowledge
• Business Acumen
• Business writing
• Principles of financial management
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Risk management process and frameworks
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Mentoring
• Information Technology concepts
• System Development Life cycle (SDLC)
• Role relevant related technologies
• Service orientated Architecture (SOA)
• IT Solutions Architecture
• IT Infrastructure Architecture
• Knowledge across multiple technologies
• IT Risk and security principes
• Usability and GUI techniques
• Multiple operating system
• Systems Analysis and design

Behavioral Competencies

• Earning Trust
• Communication Collaborating
• Decision Making Initiating Action
• Innovation
• Work Standards
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills