Competency Lead: Solutions Architecture

2 weeks ago

Tygervalley, South Africa Sanlam Full time

Who we are?
Sanlam Investments Group is one of South Africa’s largest investment management companies. We have a performance history spanning over 100 years, and offer a range of investment and financial planning solutions to protect and grow the long-term wealth of our clients.

**We take particular pride in**:

- Sanlam’s longevity and innovation
- People, teamwork and values
- A culture of diversity and commitment to growing our own timber
- Our robust, tested and proven pragmatic investment process and philosophy

Our local and offshore investment products cover the full investment spectrum: active and passive; single and multi-manager - both locally and internationally. Our active funds range are managed according to our pragmatic value investing style. What will you do?
- Proven track record and ability to establish, resource, lead and motivate a team of solution architects and systems analysts
- Provide leadership, management, and technical vision to the entire solution architecture competency
- Provide strategic direction regarding the general IT trends and developments
- Governs solution architectures to ensure that they conform to the guidelines laid down by the enterprise architects
- Exposure to or understanding of Project Management Principles
- Creates and evolves policies, standards and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation and subsequent use of information.
- Defines patterns, anti-patterns, principles and templates for solutions architects to use
- Inducts new recruits in the use of architecture artefacts, repositories and processes
- Excellent presentation skills and ability to convey complex ideas in an understandable and simplistic manner to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Must be able to communicate effectively at all levels
- Excellent ability to effectively communicate with external third-party vendors, providing guidance to their efforts
- Architecting and assisting in designs of information systems to meet the company and project needs
- Applies good principles to solutions design and architectures to ensure both fit for purpose and fit for use
- Acts as an advisor to Business units around the use of technology solutions to drive competitive advantage
- Assessing and informing stakeholders of the business and/or project impact of certain technical solutions being implemented
- Provide recommendations to business stakeholders to ensure that they can make the best business decisions based on the different solution alternatives
- Providing updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets
- Ensures that projects / programs are delivered with non-functional requirements
- Models and defines the financial implications and considerations of potential solutions
- Co-creates separation of concern principles with Enterprise IT architects
- Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve
- Providing supervision and guidance to development teams
- Provide guidance in the formation and setup of cross-functional agile delivery teams
- Resolving technical problems as they arise
- Able to delve into technical details What will make you successful in this role?
- 10+ years overall IT experience, ideally in various roles within the SDLC
- 7+ years relevant experience in either solution architecture or related
- Highly experienced in architecting, designing and documenting technical/system processes
- Must have performed multiple technical, non-managerial roles/disciplines within the IT landscape
- Any secondary qualifications with emphasis on technical related courses such as systems design, OO A&D methodology and SO methodology
- Experienced and being able to lead leaders and technical experts
- Tertiary level qualification in Computer Science degree, IT Diploma
- TOGAF or similar certification
- Exposure to the asset management industry
- Experienced in a senior leadership role in an IT environment
- In-depth understanding of coding languages (.Net Core, Java, JavaScript).
- Containerized platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes)
- Experience in Integration Platforms (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- DevOps Tooling and Process
- AWS/Azure knowledge advantageous
- Sound knowledge of various operating systems and databases (SQL)
- Understanding of Security patterns and network routing Qualification and Experience Degree or Diploma with 8 to 10 years related experience. Knowledge and Skills Project Management Emerging Technologies IT Architecture Standards and Procedures Business Requirements Profile source data and determine all source data and metadata characteristics Personal Attributes Organisational savvy - Contributing strategically Manages complexity - Contributing strategically Plans and aligns - Contributing strategically Optimises work processes - Contributing strategically Build a successful career with us

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