Senior Solution Architect (Cape Town or Johannesburg)

We are currently looking for a Solution Architect who will primarily work with the product owner team by providing business process alignment and technical leadership to craft a solution that is fit for purpose from a business perspective. Consequently, they focus their attention on both smaller and large facets of the solution to ensure that it is engineered and fits the operational model. The role will focus on the technical and business feasibility of a solution and ensure that it fits within well-established patterns and guidelines laid down by the enterprise architects and lead solution architects.

You will also:

• Takes responsibility for the quality, commercial compliance, and technical integrity of the solution being delivered back into the business.
• Works actively with senior technology/platform systems analysts from across the operational space (both internal subject matter experts and those of the chosen suppliers).
• Work with other domain architects in the programme including cloud infrastructure, technology, and domain-specific architects.

Skills and Experience

• Matric
• IT Technical skills (AWS, APIs, Serverless)
• Grasp of IT concepts, patterns, principles
• Policy Administration knowledge
• Strategic
• Leading with Influence
• Customer First
• Execution
• Personal Mastery (Learning)

Responsibilities: Compliance

• Ensures delivery fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise/solution practice architects and is in compliance with the IT strategy.
• Oversees the implementation of new solutions to ensure they adhere to the signed-off solution architecture designs.
• Understands the fiscal components of a solution to ensure it satisfies the commercial requirements of the business and is sustainable, adaptable, and practical within the RUN model.

Personal Effectiveness

• Ability to operate in a dedicated agile environment and to use typical agile method tools.
• Ability to explain the complex in layman's terms to bring technology to the masses.
• Accepts and lives the company values.
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks, and output quality for periods of 3 months to 1 year.
• Plans workload vs work demand for a small team of solution architects.
• Models and defines the financial implications and considerations of potential solutions.
• Models, defines, and collaborates around designs with business and enterprise stakeholders.
• Provides options and recommendations to business stakeholders to ensure that they can make the best business decisions based on the different solution alternatives and patterns.

Technical Consultation

• Analyses business processes to determine how IT investment could deliver value through improved cycle times, lower costs, and improved quality.
• Builds the detailed transition plan for the more effective exploitation of IT investments.
• Defines a solution and ensures that it: meets the business requirements, meets the non-functional requirements, fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise/solution practice architects, is in compliance with the IT strategy, and can be readily leveraged by other parts of the business.
• Responds to stakeholder needs and influences the development of alternative solutions.