Solutions Architect

2 days ago


Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Mr Price Group Full time

We're looking for an innovative Solutions Architect, focused on Financial Services & Finance

You would be the awesome 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.

What we're looking for?

  • 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
  • Thorough understanding of Financial services or Finance business domain; retail understanding advantageous

A day in your life?

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
  • 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

Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers to become Solution Architects

Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.

Seniority level
  • Mid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Full-time
Job function
  • Information Technology
  • Retail
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