Job Location : Gauteng, Randburg Deadline : August 03, 2025 Quick Recommended Links
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Key Performance Objectives Tasks
- Leads the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external, and internal customers.
- Takes full responsibility for the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
- Establishes policy and strategy for the selection of systems architecture components, and coordinates design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency.
- Ensures that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to.
- Within a business change programme, manages the target design, policies and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensure consistency of design across projects within the programme.
- Identifies the communications needs of each stakeholder group in conjunction with business owners and subject matter experts.
- Translates communications / stakeholder engagement strategies into specific tasks.
- Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
- Engages with other Architects across the Multichoice Group to realise solutions spanning multiple organization units.
- Engage with third parties, both local and international, to procure, understand, and guide the implementation of said third party technologies.
- Build and maintain relations with internal and third parties.
- Assists local or team-based standards for programming tools and techniques, including security guidelines, and the selection of appropriate development methods.
- Advises on application of standards and methods and ensures compliance.
- Takes technical responsibility for all stages and / or iterations in a software development project, providing method specific technical advice and guidance to project stakeholders.
- Assigns work packages, monitors performance and manages change control dynamically, to optimise productivity.
- Provides advice, guidance and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required.
- Strategically run POCs to assess various technologies and patterns for implementation or to write a reference implementation for development teams.
- Provide guidance to the delivery team on solutions.
- Provide guidance to the Product team and the wider organization on strategic decisions.
Qualifications Essentials
- Diploma in IT or Computer Science
- Certification in Cloud Application Design and Development (advantageous)
- TOGAF (optional)
Experience
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Solution Architecture or 10+ years in software development
- Experience and understanding of architectural styles like microservices and monoliths
- Experience in various architectural patterns (example Event Driven Architectures)
- Documentation tools like Confluence, Draw.io, EA Sparx, Visio, Yed or similar
- Experience with designing or building highly available and scalable systems
- Proficient understanding of Cloud services (AWS advantageous)
- Experience designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on Cloud platforms (advantageous)
- Exceptional knowledge of Webservice, Java, Nest JS, REST, AWS, C# .Net (advantageous)
- CI / CD knowledge
- Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, SCRUM experience would be advantageous
- RDBMS experience
- Experience working with NoSQL databases
- Experience in distributed caching technologies
- Exposure to full life cycle systems development
- Solid understanding of Industry recommended Software Engineering Principles
- Willing to continuously keep development skills sharp (advantageous)