Solutions Architect

Mr Price Group; Durban; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Mr Price Group in Durban is seeking an innovative Solutions Architect to design and implement pragmatic technical solutions that drive business outcomes. You will analyze available technologies, design cross‑system architectures, and guide development teams through the SDLC while aligning with governance and retail domain needs.

As part of the IT architecture team, you will shape the technology roadmap, select platforms and frameworks, and maintain strong stakeholder relationships to ensure

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems.
• 5+ years' IT solutions development experience.
• 3-5 years' solutions architecture experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication, interpersonal skills.
• Analytical, methodical, and critical thinking.
• Advantageous: retail/EComm domain knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement architectural solutions aligned with business goals.
• Lead and mentor development teams during the SDLC.
• Advise on technology selection and architecture roadmaps.
• Ensure governance and compliance of solutions.
• Build relationships with business stakeholders.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Interpersonal skills

Analysis & design

System architecture

Critical thinking

Education

Degree in computer science/engineering/IS

Job description

We’re looking for an innovative Solutions Architect!

You would be the person who analyses what technologies are available and suggest, design and implement creative and pragmatic technical solutions to achieve our business goals.

Become part of our innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team and shape the future of our retail landscape! Our architecture team includes experts in enterprise architecture, domain and solution architecture. We utilise industry leading technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.

Responsibilities:

Solution Design

• Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services
• Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth
• Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions
• Understanding non-functional requirements of a solution and mitigating risk by complying with governance and legislative requirements

Architecture Design

• Participate in selecting the most appropriate technology (platform, tech-stack, framework) for a solution, as well as balancing architectural guidelines of the corporate environment
• Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy
• Keep abreast of the latest changes & trends in IT architecture to provide insights and recommendations to the business in regards to optimisation, improvements or adoption of new tools and technologies

Business Domain

• Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment
• Contribute technical thought leadership to influence discussions and decision-making within the group

Team development

• Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers to become Solution Architects

Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems
• 5 or more years' experience in IT solutions development and 3-5 years experience in solutions architecture
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, analysis and design, system architecture design, inquisitive, methodical, analytical, critical thinking
• Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models
• Thorough understanding of EComm business domain; retail understanding advantageous