Senior Solution Architect (Cape Town or Johannesburg)

Golden Rule; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in South Africa is seeking a Solution Architect to join its dedicated team. The role focuses on aligning solutions with business processes and leading technical projects to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise, agile methodology experience, and strategic thinking to deliver feasible and effective solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and IT strategies essential.
• Strong communication skills and strategic thinking required.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and business feasibility analysis for solutions.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture guidelines.
• Lead small teams of solution architects in an agile environment.

Skills

AWS

APIs

Serverless

IT Technical skills

Strategic thinking

Leading with Influence

Customer First mindset

Execution capability

Personal Mastery

Education

Matric

Job description

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 larger facets of the solution to ensure that it is engineered and fits the operating 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 :

• Take responsibility for the quality, commercial compliance, and technical integrity of the solution being delivered back into the business.
• Work actively with senior technology/platform systems analysts from across the operational space (both internal subject matter experts and those of the chosen suppliers).
• Collaborate 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)
• Understanding of IT concepts, patterns, principles
• Policy Administration knowledge
• Strategic thinking
• Leading with Influence
• Customer First mindset
• Execution capability
• Personal Mastery (Learning)

Other Responsibilities : Compliance

• Ensure delivery fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise/solution practice architects and complies with the IT strategy.
• Oversee the implementation of new solutions to ensure adherence to the signed-off solution architecture designs.
• Understand 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

• Operate effectively in a dedicated agile environment using typical agile tools.
• Explain complex concepts in layman's terms to bring technology to the masses.
• Embody and live the company values.
• Be accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
• Collaborate effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Manage own time, tasks, and output quality over periods of 3 months to 1 year.
• Plan workload versus work demand for a small team of solution architects.
• Model and define the financial implications and considerations of potential solutions.
• Collaborate around designs with business and enterprise stakeholders.
• Provide options and recommendations to business stakeholders to facilitate optimal business decisions based on different solution alternatives and patterns.

Technical Consultation

• Analyze business processes to determine how IT investment can deliver value through improved cycle times, lower costs, and improved quality.
• Build detailed transition plans for more effective exploitation of IT investments.
• Define solutions ensuring they :
  • Meet business requirements
  • Meet non-functional requirements
  • Fit within guidelines laid down by enterprise/solution practice architects
  • Are in compliance with the IT strategy
  • Can be readily leveraged by other parts of the business
• Respond to stakeholder needs and influence the development of alternative solutions.