Solution Architect – Government & Public Services – Senior Manager

Deloitte Africa; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in South Africa is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead technology transformation initiatives in public services. The ideal candidate should have 7-10 years of Cloud architecture experience and proficiency in establishing effective solution designs. This role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and innovation, with a focus on modernizing clients' technological capabilities.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• 7 - 10 years of experience in planning, architecting, and implementing Cloud environments.
• 3 - 5 years of experience in a client facing and technical sales roles.
• Must have previous experience as a Lead Solution Architect at an enterprise level.
• Proven track record in Cloud migrations, development, and design.
• Must have Cloud professional level certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Professional).

Responsibilities

• Design effective solutions that meet business requirements.
• Lead, coach, and mentor high-performance teams.
• Deliver large-scale tech transformation initiatives.
• Establish delivery structures for digital public infrastructure.

Skills

Cloud (Strategy, modernisation and migration)

Enterprise and solutions architecture

DevOps / DataOps delivery structures

Agile delivery practices

Strategic Planning

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems

Tools

Cloud Solution Architecture

Serverless Architecture

Job description

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and society. This is the lens for which our global strategy is set. It unites Deloitte professionals across geographies, businesses, and skills. It makes us better at what we do and how we do it. It enables us to deliver on our promises to stakeholders, while creating the lasting impact we seek.

Harnessing the talent of 450,000+ people located across more than 150 countries and territories, our size and scale puts us in a unique position to help change the world for the better—by bringing together the services we provide, the societal investments we make, and the collaborations we advance through our ecosystems.

Deloitte offers career opportunities across Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T).

About Africa Consulting Services

Deloitte’s Africa Consulting Services has always been about helping our clients and our people move forward. It’s important that we do the same for our business: celebrating how far we’ve come, and always preparing to take our next, big steps towards a global future. We’re moving and evolving on our journey to be an undisputed leader in consulting, globally and in all major markets. Together, we will achieve our aspirations through relentless focus on our Shared Strategic Agenda. The Global Consulting Platform is working globally across our practices and borders – giving our business, clients and people the global experience that’s essential in today’s world.

About the Cloud practice

Deloitte is an industry leader in our clients’ digital transformations. We recognize that the backbone enabling our clients’ highest aspirations for analytics and cognitive solutions is next-gen Cloud infrastructure. From Cloud consulting, to implementation, and ongoing managed services we offer a full scope of Cloud services and solutions. We want talent who is ready to innovate Cloud services and empower our clients to leap-frog in their technical capabilities. Building your career at Deloitte offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge Cloud technologies to deliver next-Gen Cloud solutions. We embrace the tech pioneer mindset and always enable our talent to keep their skills evolving at the speed at which the technology marketplace is evolving.

Job Description

We are looking for a seasoned engineering lead with extensive technology and management consulting experience, a passion for and experience in building and running a successful business, leading, coaching and mentoring successful high-performance teams, strong industry, communication and leadership skills, with technical expertise, to design effective solutions that meet business requirements.

If you are a technology strategist, architect, and technology delivery leader, and are interested in making a citizen-centric impact by transforming our government and public sector clients through technology and data driven modernisation, we want to hear from you!

Role overview:

As a Senior Solution Architect, you will be part of the Government and Public Services industry Operations and Technology Consulting team, with the opportunity to work collaboratively with the best of our Strategy, Engineering, AI & Data, and Delivery Management teams, to imagine, architect, shape and deliver large scale tech transformation initiatives, using your technical expertise with strong industry, communication, and leadership skills, to design effective solutions that meet business requirements.

Expertise required:

• Deep technology and solution architecture, design and engineering
• Enterprise and solutions architecture, design, and implementation across industries
• Familiarity with industry and domain specific leading practices, innovation and modernisation in at least one of the following areas
  • Cloud (Strategy, modernisation and migration), with specific experience in Cloud modernisation ecosystem and value cases
  • Digital public infrastructure, digital public goods, and/or platform modernisation, leveraging Cloud / Hybrid Cloud architectures
• Familiarity with and experience in establishing DevOps / DataOps delivery structures
• Ability to vision, shape, structure and deliver large scale tech and data programs / projects
• Design and implementation of innovative propositions leveraging leading edge platforms, architectural design patterns, platforms
• Experience in defining and tailoring a fit for purpose implementation approach, leveraging the best of Agile and traditional delivery practices
• Technology strategy definition and execution, defining and implementing transformation roadmaps
• Enterprise and solutions architecture experience

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or other related technical / professional qualifications
• 7 - 10 years of experience in planning, architecting, and implementing Cloud environments
• 3 - 5 years of experience in a client facing and technical sales roles
• Must have previous experience as a Lead Solution Architect at an enterprise level
• Proven track record in Cloud migrations, development, and design
• Must have Cloud professional level certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Professional)

Technical Mastery:

• Expertise in Cloud Solution Architecture (Multicloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud)
• Proficiency in Cloud Networking, Authentication & Authorization
• Innovate with Serverless Architecture & Monolithic Application Decoupling
• Security by Design Principles & Defence in Depth Security Model
• Compliance with International Standards (ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS, POPIA, GDPR)
• Strong System Integration knowledge
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments
• Understanding Cloud Native Services vs SaaS and Third-Party services
• Big Data and ETL Process Understanding
• Project Management & Strategic Planning

Additional Information

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive. Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

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