Solution Architect

6 months ago

Sandton, South Africa Blue Label Telecoms Full time

**JOB PURPOSE**

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of a solutions and capability architecture for a particular business capability / user journey, according to the overall digital vision and target architecture. This role is responsible for the technical analysis and holistic solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain APIs, and technical enablers / stories. This role is responsible for reviewing the target architecture vision and roadmap, evaluating and prioritizing roadmap items, and translating them into designs and non-functional requirements. This incumbent is responsible for providing support to engineering to ensure development of technical stories are aligned to defined architecture paradigms, principles, and patterns.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**System Architecture**
- Use appropriate tools, models of components and interfaces to contribute to the development of the systems architecture in a specific business area
- Assist in the preparation of technical plans and corporates wit business assurance and project staff to ensure technical resources are made available
- Provide advice on technical aspects pf integration systems including changes, deviations from specifications etc, and ensure relevant strategies and policies, practices and standards are applied correctly
- Turning project ideas into compelling narratives on business needs, business value and customer experience
- Designing and development of solutions to ensure customer and business needs are met
- Translating program/project strategies and business goals into detailed requirements
- Ensure cross-functional delivery and development team have complete understanding of the business and user needs
- Prioritizing activities based on customer and business needs
- Facilitating ongoing review and iteration of development work to ensure the business and user needs and requirements continue to be met by the proposed solution
- Create and maintain buy-in for programs/project vision to build awareness about inflight solutions and their impact on health

**System Design**
- Specify and design complex or large system solutions
- Select appropriate design tools, methods, standards that are consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures to ensure they are applied effectively
- Reviews other’s systems designs to ensure appropriate technologies are applied and selected
- Evaluates impact analysis on major design options and assess associated risks
- Ensures that systems designs balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements
- Collaborates with external and internal customers to ensure successful delivery and integration of our products

**Solution Development**
- Work closely with the technical teams to translate client requirements into actionable technical solutions
- Identify and recommend best practices for solution design and optimization
- Stay up to date with the latest Solution principles and trends to provide innovative solutions
- Translate theoverall digital vision and target architecture into corresponding solution designs and change requirements
- Design end-to-end solutions and cross domain integration and APIs
- Define non-functional, operational, and quality requirements for solutions
- Define technical stories to enable business capabilities, fostering re-use of existing components, and accept technical features following demos
- Collaborate to plan the release of technical stories
- Provide guidance to delivery teams to ensure alignment
- Facilitate solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs
- Manage technical debt and technology obsolescence at solution level
- Advocate adoption of new technologies into solutions

**Technical Write-ups**
- Produce high-quality technical write-ups and solution architecture documents that clearly outline proposed technical solutions
- Articulate the benefits and advantages of the proposed solutions in a way that resonates with clients

**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 organization
- Recognize outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication, and collaboration across the organi

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