Solutions Architect

6 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa WePlace Full time

An industry leading Bank has an exciting opportunity available for a Solutions Architect within the insurance space to join their dynamic team.

**Purpose Statement**

You will bring deep technical knowledge of at least one programming paradigm, preferably object-oriented or functional programming, and be comfortable working on programming assignments using either of: SQL, C#, Java, JavaScript, C++, C or Python. Additionally, you will have experience with both relational and non-relational databases, as well as basic AWS cloud skills. You will intimately understand dataflows, system integration and constructing a highly available architecture. You will have the opportunity to learn and work with domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and Kubernetes. You will be a problem solver at heart, with the ability to think critically and creatively to find innovative solutions.

You will have the opportunity to explore new skills and technologies, while working with a team of dedicated professionals in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

**Role purpose**:

- To own (develop, maintain, and enhance) the technology strategy and the target state solution architecture within Insurance.
- To design a fit for purpose technology operating model (including core concepts, features and elements that provide an overarching framework) that will enable to execute on their strategic objectives.
- To produce a comprehensive technical specification for that offers a technically viable solution and address the business requirements.

**Experience**
Minimum:

- At least 5 years’ relevant design and development experience.
- At least 3 years’ proven experience as an Architect (pre-sales advantageous) in the insurance or banking industry.
- Evidence of delivering Proof of concept solutions to third parties.
- At least 4 years’ experience in:

- Presenting to Mid-senior level management to convey technical concepts in a simplified, understandable language.
- Analysis, design and writing technical specifications.
- Constructing detail technical design and non-functional requirements.
- Designing and delivering scalable and resilient solutions.

Ideal:

- Deep understanding of continuous availability.
- Commitment to frequent incremental release philosophy and practice.
- Insurance, Banking and Finance experience
- Understand relational database design concepts, and familiarity to 3NF & de-normalised database solutions.

**Qualifications**
Minimum
- Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology

Ideal or Preferred
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology - Computer Science

**Knowledge**
Minimum:

- System architecture (technical design, software architecture).
- Data flow diagrams, and high-level systems diagrams.
- IT systems development processes.
- Application development / Software development (typed and scripting coding languages).
- Waterfall and Agile systems development processes (Prince II / Safe).
- CI/CD standards and agile delivery methods.
- Service-Oriented Architecture.

Ideal:

- Banking systems
- Insurance systems
- Knowledge of UML
- Cloud architectures
- Working knowledge of AWS / Azure
- Solid understanding of:

- Best practices for Quality Assurance (QA)
- AWS/Azure cloud components and cloud vs on premise solutions

**Skills**
- Problem solving skills
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical Skills
- Facilitation Skills
- Business Process Modelling skills (IDEF-0, Financial Modelling, Enterprise Architect, BPMN, etc.)
- For more information please contact:
**Lida Groenewald

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