Head: Solutions Architecture

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

  • Requires excellent analytical, technical, interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Problem solving and decisionmaking skills
  • Presentation and facilitations skills
  • Relating and networking
  • Leading and supervising
  • JAD (Group) facilitation sessions
  • TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent preferred
  • Microservices and Cloud experience preferred.

Responsibilities:

  • To support, create and migrate solutions from its current legacy architecture to its new modern platform architecture
  • Work with Strategic Growth to design solutions that meet the strategic objectives
  • Develop Requirements & Designs (both high level and detailed) in conjunction with Strategic Growth, Customer, Engineering
  • To provide architectural guidelines and ensure that architecture principles are adhered to in the development of solutions.
  • To analyse and refine requirements for delivering the necessary technology service to business and serve as liaison to the business community.
  • Support accurate and practical designs for complete end to end technical delivery ensuring that, at all stages in the development life cycle, solution design meets user requirements and is feasible.
  • This will include, inter alia, development of user stories, test cases, etc
  • To perform technical analysis in consultation with stakeholders (Technical architects, Product Managers, Operations team, Data and Infrastructure Architects), in order to refine high level business requirements into detailed technical requirements.
  • Design scalable and robust Services and Applications that integrate across different technologies.
  • Ensure that Legacy and Modern platforms integrate seamlessly.
  • Provide highlevel designs and guide lowlevel designs by engineering in response to business requirements and strategy.
  • Ensure technical architectures and solutions are aligned with Group principles and technology guidelines.
  • Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog.
  • To act as a technical liaison between business and the delivery team
  • Lead presales work.
  • Build a presales capability, including process, work flows, SLA and team management
  • Draft and deliver proposals in conjunction with Sales, Strategic Growth and Engineering
  • Build implementation capability for projectoriented customer projects (enterprise and data projects typically)


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