Software System Designer II

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks a Software System Designer II for a 12-month contract in Johannesburg. The role focuses on system design and architecture engineering, reviewing components across stacks, and ensuring solutions meet requirements.

You will drive improvements, scope changes, and architectural governance while aligning with company goals. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with cloud-based architectures, scalable distributed systems, and handling large datasets, within a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• Seasoned experience in IT roles with focus on system design/architecture engineering.
• Proven working experience in a large-scale organisation.
• Experience with software development lifecycles.
• Understanding of cloud-based architectures (Azure, AWS).
• Proficiency in designing scalable, distributed, high-performance systems.
• Knowledge of software design/architecture and handling large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Review detailed application, software, and system components across technology stacks.
• Ensure architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements.
• Review existing system architecture and recommend improvements.
• Participate in engineering reviews to resolve ambiguities.
• Scope change requests and estimate effort and timelines.
• Determine system loads and volumes for infrastructure planning.
• Align architectures with company goals and strategies.
• Enable design and development of new systems and solutions.
• Ensure conformance to current architectures and strategic direction.
• Conduct architectural analysis to solve complex business/technical problems.
• Deliver robust, scalable solutions to business needs.
• Identify and mitigate risks impacting architectural delivery.
• Specify functional/technical requirements and implementation phases.
• Implement processes for integrating architectural solutions.
• Establish architectural governance and metrics.
• Use fitness functions to ensure architectural success.
• Proactively identify potential problems and remedial solutions.
• Ensure team understands architectural implications of requirements.

Skills

System design

Architecture engineering

Cloud architectures

Distributed systems

Large datasets

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT/CS

Job description

About the job Software System Designer II

12 Month Contract

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related etc.
• Seasoned experience in similar IT roles, with a focus on system design / architecture engineering
• Proven working experience in a large-scale organisation
• Seasoned experience, judgment and drive to plan, make decisions and accomplish individual and team goals
• Seasoned experience with software development lifecycles
• Seasoned experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Seasoned systems and/or software development experience is essential
• understanding of cloud-based architectures, preferably in popular cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
• Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, distributed, and high-performance systems
• Seasoned knowledge of software design and architecture, ideally with experience dealing with large datasets

Responsibilities:

• Review detailed application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks
• Ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements
• Review existing system architecture and recommend improvements
• Participate in engineering reviews to determine any ambiguities
• Investigate and scope change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required
• Determine system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements
• Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the companys goals and strategies
• Enable the design and development of new systems and solutions
• Ensure that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and/or align to strategic system architectural direction
• Conduct architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems
• Enable and ensure that system architecture is delivered in the form of robust and scalable solutions to business problems and needs
• Identify, evaluate, and assess risks in order to mitigate them and eliminate any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements
• Specify the solutions functional and technical requirements, and implementation phases required in order to deliver on and solve complex business problems
• Implement processes for integrating architectural solutions
• Implement architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture
• Implement and/or maintain the use of fitness functions to ensure architectural success
• Proactively identify potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions
• Ensure team members understand system architectural implications of requirements