Solutions Architect

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa HR Genie Full time
Our client a Global Tech firm is seeking a Solutions Architect to join their team in Johannesburg. They offer stability, growth, attractive salary along with excellent benefits and a great working environment.

As a Solutions Architect, you'll work closely with the senior management team to define and develop new product offerings. You will be responsible for ensuring that the right technical resources are available to meet our business needs. You will also help shape and maintain our internal processes so that we can best serve our customers.

In this role, you'll be tasked with liaising with architects on matters such as building plans or design changes within a set timeframe.


Requirements:

  • Uses indepth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations.
  • May provide consultation to prospective users and/or product capability assessment and validation
  • The primary responsibility of the Solutions Architect is to consult with the client and work with internal teams to create strategies, transformational designs and the architectural vision for complex solutions that address the clients needs.

Key roles and responsibilities:

  • Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
  • Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the tradeoffs in cost, performance and scalability.
  • Produces specifications of cloudbased or onpremises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
  • Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
  • Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
  • Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
  • Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
  • Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and nonfunctional requirements, including proof of concept (POC).
  • Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
  • Contribute to the development of new go to market services and contributes knowledge on relevant verticals.
  • Operate across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.

Knowledge, skills and attributes

  • Solid knowledge of multivendor service integrations and crossfunctional software, OSs and infrastructure designs
  • Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
  • Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures
  • Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains

Experience required:

  • Solid professional technical, IT or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably multi
- national) technology services environment on the following areas: Software Development, Application Support and Infrastructure Support

  • Some Project or Program Management experience would be preferred but not essential
  • Proven client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management
  • Proven experience in integrating the solution for the particular project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns and best practices
  • Experience working in an agile development environment

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Information Systems required
  • Qualification in Information Technology or Information Systems
  • Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.)
  • SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous

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