Lead Solutions Architect

2 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa ALOS Innovative Workforce Solution (Pty) Ltd Full time
JOB PURPOSE
Responsible for the development of Technology solutions and mapping the business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plans.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Team Management
  • Engage with various leaders and Senior Manager Architect, to design solutions and create better enterprise frameworks
  • Mentor and coach, the solution architects, promoting professional growth and skill enhancement
  • Efficiently allocate team resources to optimize workflow and meet project deadlines
  • Conduct regular performance assessments, offering constructive feedback and implementing improvement plans as needed
  • Collaborate with HR to identify and attract top talent for the Solution architecture team
  • Proactively address conflicts within the team, promoting a positive and collaborative work environment
  • Implement effective conflict resolution strategies to maintain a cohesive and motivated team
  • Facilitate regular knowledge-sharing sessions to ensure best practices are disseminated and adopted
  • Encourage a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Strategy Implementation
  • Collaborate with Senior manager enterprise to Develop, define, solution architect strategy aligned with overall business objectives
  • Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to inform the evolution of solution architecture
  • Lead the solution architects to develop detailed implementation plans for solution Architecture initiatives, considering timelines, resource requirements, and potential challenges
  • Ensure alignment of solution architecture initiatives with the organization's strategic goals
  • Establish metrics and KPIs and department objectives to measure the effectiveness of solution architecture processes
Solution Architect support
  • Limit choices available during development by choosing a standard way of pursuing application development creating, defining, or choosing an application framework for the application
  • Recognize potential reuse in the organization or in the application by observing and understanding the broader system environment creating the component design having knowledge of other applications in the organization
  • Subdivide a complex application, during the design phase, into smaller, more manageable pieces
  • Grasp the functions of each component within the application
  • Understand the interactions and dependencies among components
  • Communicate these concepts to developers
  • Assist Senior manager in the Review, develop and maintain the organizations IT architecture
  • Review and evaluate the current state of the organizations architecture (as-is) in order to identify duplications, what is working, what is not working and measure the health of key business processes that are supported by the current architecture
  • Build the transition architecture to connect the current to the future state by creating an iterative roadmap to get to the desired state
  • Recommend and provide changes to the business in easily digestible iterative changes
  • Work in liaison with business stakeholders to develop Business Architecture Roadmaps containing tactical and strategic initiatives to reach target business capabilities
  • Identify and resolve dependencies and impacts across the architecture landscape
  • Design solutions based on business requirements that align with Reference Architecture policies and standards
  • Provide expertise in designing solutions for custom requirements
  • Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders and conduct stakeholder reviews of architecture roadmaps and designs
  • Assist Senior manager in determining Solution Architecture policy and standards definition and evolution and works with PMO to coordinate project pipeline management
  • Engage relevant peers from other disciplines or domains during implementation of Solution Architecture/Design
  • Accountable to build a defined life cycle around reviewing the future state enterprise architecture
Customer Centricity
  • Coordinates contact with Business Partners as needed to assist with support activities
  • Establish and maintain a positive professional relationship with Business Partners and customers
  • Maintain regular and timely communications with Business Partners and customers
  • Maintain strong working relationship with customers and Business Partners
  • Work with customers and Business Partners to execute consistent service processes throughout the organization
  • Establish a single point of contact for issue resolution and change management
  • Drive customer centricity in levels of the organization
Work Collaboratively
  • Build a culture of integrity, respect and understanding across the organisation
  • Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
  • Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication, and collaboration across the organisation
  • Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders (Retailers and POS Companies) to develop joint solutions
  • Demonstrate ability to work and engage with various teams
  • Demonstrate ability to communicate at all levels
Requirements:BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
  • Assertive
  • Analytical
  • Flexible
  • Tech Savvy
  • Attention to detail
  • Customer focused
  • Evaluating problems
  • Processing details and information
  • Building relationships & Trust
  • Communicating information
  • Providing leadership
EDUCATION
  • Matric
  • Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems
  • Equivalent experience required TOGAF certification
EXPERIENCE
  • 8+ years experience Solution Architect role
  • 3-5 years of leading the solution architect teams
  • Knowledge of the relevant Information Technology governance and legislative framework (such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, ASAP, SOA)
  • Strong Microsoft Office productivity tools knowledge (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Atlassian and Jira knowledge (advantageous)

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