Solution Architect

Boardroom Appointments; Durban; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Durban to help business and IT leaders balance operational demands with long-term strategic goals. You will analyse the IT ecosystem, identify deficiencies, and propose innovative, cost-effective solutions across Business, Data, Application, and Technology architecture.

The role requires 8 years of IT experience, including 2 years in Business Process Design, plus 5 years of supervisory experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related IT field.
• 8 years of IT experience with at least 2 years in Business Process Design.
• Experience with process redesign methods and tools.
• 5 years of demonstrated management/supervisory experience in system management.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and analysing the organisation's Business drivers and business development strategies.
• Analysing the current IT ecosystem to detect critical deficiencies and Pain Points.
• Recommending solutions for overall Business and Technology innovation and optimisation/improvement.
• Align with the organisation's technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards or direct necessary changes to these.
• Delivering transition views (models) that are an interim view between the current state and a future state.
• Ensuring that the architecture of the enterprise is optimised and that all Architecture Domains integrate in a cost-effective manner.
• Guiding technology, design patterns, and reusable solution building blocks that make up a Solution Architecture.
• Keeping up to date with capabilities of new technologies to apply in a business context.
• Provide assistance in business case development and feasibility studies.

Skills

IT experience

Business Process Design

Process redesign methods

Supervisory experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related discipline with an Information Technology focus

Job description

The Enterprise Architects are focused on enabling business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritise current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer- term strategic vision of the organisation.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Identifying and analysing of the organisations Business drivers and business development strategies
• Analysing of the current IT ecosystem to detect critical deficiencies and Pain Points
• Recommending solutions for overall Business and Technology innovation and optimisation/improvement that will increase sustainability and prepare for future expansion
• Align with the organisations technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards or direct necessary changes to these
• Delivering transition views (models) that are an interim view, in between the current state and a future state
• Ensuring that the architecture of the enterprise is optimised, it is essential that all Architecture Domains (Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application architecture, Technology Architecture) integrate (and inter-operate) in a cost-effective manner, with minimum effort and maximum benefit to the organisation
• Guiding the technology, design patterns, design constructs and the (re-usable) solution building blocks that make up a Solution Architecture, defining a conceptual Solution Architecture
• Keeping up to date with and having a clear understanding of the capabilities and benefits of new/emerging technologies in order to apply same in a business context
• Provide assistance in business case development (i.e., research, data collection). Provide factual content to the feasibility studies that are needed for standard development projects and enhancements

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related discipline with an Information Technology focus
• 8 years of experience in IT, with a minimum of two years in Business Process Design
• Experience with process redesign methods and tools
• 5 years of demonstrated management / supervisory experience in system management