Domain Architect Ii

**Purpose of the Job**:
**Job Objectives**:
Consult on the Retail strategy, develop roadmaps and reference architectures, and govern the technology selection in support thereof.
Serve as the Retail domain architecture and design authority for all project and operational stakeholders, and ensure architecture quality across all solution platforms enabled by customer-facing solutions.
Provide expert Retail guidance, ensure solution architectures and designs are in line with the Retail strategy and technology standards and conduct architecture and design reviews as part of the Architecture Review Committee.
Contribute to solution architecture and design standards and SDLC governance requirements.

TASK INFORMATION
Consult on the Retail strategy, develop roadmaps and reference architectures, and govern the technology selection in support thereof.
Develop and maintain an understanding of the technology strategy and business priorities for Retail in the enterprise.
Develop Shoprite’s Retail landscape roadmap and blueprints in line with the strategic business direction
Maintain, socialize and enforce Retail System standards, keeping technology stakeholders up to date with changes in the technology standards highlighting potential impact to the enterprise.
Be clearly identified as the Retail Systems authority for all technologies and provide technical guidance and leadership in technology proposals, RFIs, RFPs, and project teams.
Keep abreast of the latest Retail technology trends and emerging technologies, determine the potential impact on the enterprise, and drive adoption as deemed appropriate.
Create and present reference architectures as advice on the Retail architecture strategy for the organization.
Serve as the Retail domain architecture and design authority for all project and operational stakeholders, and ensure architecture quality across all solution platforms enabled by customer-facing solutions
Be clearly identified as the senior design authority as it relates to the Retail domain and provide technical guidance and leadership in solution proposals, RFIs, RFPs, and project teams.
Partner with the Enterprise Architect and other Solution Architects in support of the definition and development of the overall enterprise solution landscape.
Detect critical deficiencies in Retail architectures and recommend improvements.
Work with external service providers to drive projects to successful implementation.
Review external and internal designs for Retail systems from a risk and technology perspective
Ensure applicable Architecture and Design reviews are conducted for Retail solutions in line with the defined IT governance and processes. |
Provide architectural oversight and guidance to development teams to ensure high-quality technical solution designs during the detailed design, build, test and deploy phases that conforms to architecture principles and standards.
Mentor solution architect / senior developers / designers / business analysts.
Provide expert Retail guidance, ensure solution architectures and designs are in line with the Retail strategy and technology standards and conduct architecture and design reviews as part of the Architecture Review Committee.
Define and develop the overall Retail architecture landscape in partnership with other Domain Architects and Solution Architects.
Review proposed solution architectures ensuring alignment with architecture principles, the architecture framework, Retail reference architectures, set technology standards and identify critical gaps, and recommend improvements.
Give guidance and advice to peers in respect to Retail solution designs ensuring the designs conform to industry best practices and standards.
Engage all stakeholders to obtain agreement on proposed Retail solutions and work closely with business stakeholders, Business Analysts, System Analysts and Project Managers to architect and implement retail solutions.
Contribute to solution architecture and design standards and SDLC governance requirements
Define a framework for Solution Architecture and develop the policies and procedures and templates to guide and govern the Solution Architecture processes.
Develop and maintain solution architecture principles and quality compliance criteria to guide technology decisions.
Develop and set solution modeling standards and guidelines.
Define a set of metrics to measure and report on the performance of the various solution architecture processes.

**Qualifications**:
Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science
Togaf certification

**Experience**:
Working experience within the IT industry.
An in-depth functional understanding of SAP Retail, SAP Master Data, Pricing, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash. Inter module integration and back-office Retail Finance.
Retail industry experience with an understanding of retail business processes.
Understanding of different methods of SAP integration (ALE/IDOC, enterprise services, MFT, PI)
Experience with all aspects o