Domain Architect Ii

5 days ago

Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

**Purpose of the Job**:
Become part of an innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team.

Our mature architecture team is based in Brackenfell (strategically placed close to the sea and the Cape winelands) and includes experts in enterprise architecture, solution architecture and data architecture. We operate in an agile retail environment of Africa’s largest retailer that utilizes industry leading IT technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.

**Job Objectives**:**
Consult on the IT Technology 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 enterprise.
- Develop Shoprite’s IT Technology landscape roadmap and blueprints in line with the strategic business direction
- Maintain, socialize and enforce IT Technology 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 IT Technology authority for all technologies and provide technical guidance and leadership in technology proposals, RFIs, RFPs, and project teams.
- Keep abreast of the latest technology trends and emerging technologies, determine the potential impact on the enterprise, and drive adoption as deemed appropriate.
- Create and present reference architecture as advice on the IT Technology architecture strategy for the organization.

**Serve as the IT Technology domain architecture and design authority for all project and operational stakeholders, and ensure architecture quality across all solution platforms.**
- Be clearly identified as the senior design authority as it relates to the IT Technology domain and provides 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 IT Technology architectures and recommend improvements.
- Work with external service providers to drive projects to successful implementation.
- Review external and internal designs for IT Technology systems from a risk and technology perspective
- Ensure applicable Architecture and Design reviews are conducted for IT Technology 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 conform to architecture principles and standards.
- Mentor solution architect / senior developers / designers / business analysts.

**Provide expert IT Technology guidance, ensure solution architectures and designs are in line with the IT Technology strategy and technology standards and conduct architecture and design reviews as part of the Architecture Review Committee.**
- Define and develop the overall IT Technology architecture landscape in partnership with other Domain Architects and Solution Architects.
- Review proposed solution architectures ensuring alignment with architecture principles, the architecture framework, IT Technology reference architectures, set technology standards and identify critical gaps, and recommend improvements.
- Give guidance and advice to peers in respect of IT Technology solution designs ensuring the designs conform to industry's best practices and standards.
- Engage all stakeholders to obtain agreement on proposed IT Technology solutions and work closely with business stakeholders, Business Analysts, System Analysts and Project Managers** **to architect and implement media solutions.
- Govern all technology standards for the Shoprite Group and conduct regular technology standard reviews of all new technologies introduced to Shoprite.

**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 (or similar) - essential

TOGAF certification (or similar) - desirable

**Experience**:
Essential:
10 to 15 years Working experience within the IT industry.

5 to 10 years Experience with technology platforms, infrastructure platforms, data centers, IT security, Cloud architectures and SAP Technologies

5 years Retail industry experience with an understanding of retail business processes.

  • Domain Architect Ii

    7 months ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: **Job Objectives**: Architect and design medium to highly complex technology solutions (e.g. involving several departments, new technology, integration of many technology types, medium risk, change impact and/or visibility). Develop and maintain an understanding of the technology strategy and business priorities for [Financial...

  • Domain Architect Ii

    7 months ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **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...

  • Solution Architect Ii

    1 week ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: Become part of an innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team. Our mature architecture team is based in Brackenfell (strategically placed close to the sea and the Cape winelands) and includes experts in enterprise architecture, solution architecture and data architecture. We operate in an agile retail environment...

  • Domain Architect

    7 months ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: As a recognized authority of IT Software Platforms and SDLC Technologies, the Domain Architect strategically advises on and drives the IT Technology strategy that underpins all IT solutions, creates the architecture for these platforms and leads the realization of the architecture roadmap into the target state. Integration Platforms,...

  • Solution Architect Ii

    3 days ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: Become part of an innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team. Our mature architecture team is based in Brackenfell (strategically placed close to the sea and the Cape winelands) and includes experts in enterprise architecture, solution architecture and data architecture. We operate in an agile retail environment...

  • Domain Architect Iii

    7 months ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: **Job Objectives**: Architect and design medium to highly complex technology solutions (e.g. involving several departments, new technology, integration of many technology types, medium risk, change impact and/or visibility). Develop and maintain an understanding of the technology strategy and business priorities for [Financial...

  • Solutions Architect Ii

    1 week ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: Become part of an innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team. Our mature architecture team is based in Brackenfell (strategically placed close to the sea and the Cape winelands) and includes experts in enterprise architecture, solution architecture and data architecture. We operate in an agile retail environment...

  • Solution Architect Ii

    7 days ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Job Objectives**: Develop and maintain an understanding of the business strategy and business priorities for FinTech services. Develop Shoprite’s FinTech landscape roadmap and blueprints in line with the strategic business direction. Analyse and understand FinTech business requirements and translate the requirements into the most effective solution...

  • Solutions Architect Ii

    9 months ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: As a recognized data engineering authority the Solution Architect collaborates in data engineering standards & controls and creates the data engineering architecture for the target environments to deliver data pipelines into the bigger Business Intelligence environments. The solution architect will collaborate closely with the data,...

  • Enterprise Architect I

    1 day ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: As an experienced Retail Professional, the Enterprise Architect for Retail is responsible for shaping the architecture strategy for the Retail Domain in collaboration with Senior IT and Business Leadership in support of the company strategy while aligning to the architectural principles and standards. Job Objectives Influencing and...

  • Solution Architect Ii

    7 days ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: Become part of a world-class innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team. Our mature architecture team is based in Brackenfell (strategically placed close to the sea and the Cape winelands) and includes experts in enterprise architecture, solution architecture and data architecture. We operate in an agile retail...

  • Solution Architect Ii

    1 day ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Disruptive IT Full time

    **Purpose of the Job** Become part of an innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team. Our mature architecture team is based in Brackenfell (strategically placed close to the sea and the Cape winelands) and includes experts in enterprise architecture, solution architecture and data architecture. We operate in an agile retail environment...

  • Enterprise Architect I

    10 hours ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: As an experienced Supply Chain Professional, the Enterprise Architect for Supply Chain is responsible for shaping the architecture strategy for the Supply Chain Domain in collaboration with Senior IT and Business Leadership in support of the company strategy while aligning to the architectural principles and standards. **Job...

  • Solution Architect Ii

    1 week ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: Become part of an innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team. Our mature architecture team is based in Brackenfell (strategically placed close to the sea and the Cape winelands) and includes experts in enterprise architecture, solution architecture and data architecture. We operate in an agile retail environment...

  • Solution Architect Iii

    7 months ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: **Job Objectives**: Provide input into the SAP Technology Strategy and future operational / capital plans around technology solutions and ensure suitable governance around the definition and management of technology to ensure these strategies and plans are implemented. Develop and maintain SAP Technology strategies, standards and...

  • Business Architect

    10 hours ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Datonomy Solutions Full time

    **Purpose of the Role**: The Business Architect establishes and maintains business architecture principles, standards, methods, models, and services to design business architecture assets, which are used to understand and improve the alignment between business and IT. This includes creating a blueprint of the baseline and target states of the business...

  • Product Manager: Reporting Assets

    7 months ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: The purpose of the Product Manager II role is to drive the building of products that meet customer needs over the product-market lifecycle, by defining the roadmap and driving continuous exploration to define the benefit hypothesis, business processes and solution intent for program epics, in collaboration with business leads,...

  • Programmer Ii

    7 months ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: The purpose of this role is to competently write, modify, refactor, debug, troubleshoot and test new or existing systems of medium to high complexity and scale, ensuring that the code functions reliably and optimally according to Shoprite programming standards. The role works alongside the Programming team and requires specialised...

  • Database Administrator Ii

    7 months ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa Shoprite Group Full time

    **Purpose of the Job**: To research, evaluate and recommend relevant DBMS products. To assist Development Teams in designing and optimising systems. To ensure information security and regulatory compliance. To carry out database administration tasks. **Job Objectives**: To research, evaluate and recommend DBMS products: Evaluate and compare strengths and...

  • Programmer Ii

    1 week ago

    Brackenfell, South Africa ShopriteX Full time

    **Purpose of the Job** ShopriteX is the new digital hub that is trailing and developing innovations for Shoprite. We think about the future of digital and retail in terms of personalisation, and personalisation is the business word for removing friction for customers As the Senior Developer you will need to have a deep specialised knowledge beyond your...