Solution Architect
2 weeks ago
**Key purpose**:
**Duties and responsibilities**:
- Serve as the primary solution architecture and design authority for enterprise APIs for all project and operational stakeholders and ensure architecture quality across all solutions that enable the enterprise across various business domains.
- Contribute to solution architecture and design standards and SDLC governance requirements.
- Develop and maintain an understanding of the business strategy and business priorities for service enabling APIs and platforms.
- Develop company service enabling API products and platforms landscape roadmap and blueprints in line with the strategic business direction.
- Analyse and understand business requirements and translate the requirements into the most effective solution architecture with mínimal customization and/or advise on suitable solution alternatives that support.
- Engage all stakeholders to obtain agreement on proposed solutions and work closely with business stakeholders, Business Analysts, System Designers, Analyst Developers and Project Managers to architect and implement enterprise services such as Customer, Product and Marketing to name a few.
- Keep abreast of the latest trends and emerging technologies, identify and analyze architecture best practices, determine the potential impact on the enterprise, and drive adoption as deemed appropriate.
- Be clearly identified as the senior design authority as it relates to the enterprise experience layers and provide technical guidance and leadership in solution proposals, RFIs, RFPs, and project teams.
- Partner with Enterprise Architects and other Solution Architects in support of the definition and development of the overall retail solution landscape.
- Detect critical deficiencies in the service enabling digital products and platform architectures and recommend improvements.
- Work with external service providers to drive projects to successful implementation.
- Review external and internal designs for service enabling digital products and platforms systems from a risk and technology perspective
- Ensure applicable Architecture and Design reviews are conducted for service enabling digital products and platforms 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 senior developers / designers / business analysts to become Solution Architects.
- Maintain and manage the service enabling digital products and platforms related architecture artifacts in the Enterprise Architecture repository and ensure that the content is effectively organized and controlled so as to maintain architectural consistency.
- Contribute to the definition of a framework for Solution Architecture and the policies, procedures and templates that guide and govern Solution Architecture processes.
- Contribute to the development of architecture principles and compliance criteria to guide technology decisions.
- Contribute to the development of solution modeling standards and guidelines.
- Define a set of metrics to measure and report on the performance of the various solution architecture processes.
**Qualifications and experience**:
- Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science (or similar)
- Working experience within the IT industry - 7-10 yrs
- Experience with all aspects of IT projects from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production support (SDLC) - 5+ yrs
- Excellent design and architecture skills and proven track record delivering well designed complex enterprise class systems - 5+ yrs
- Experience in delivering solutions in an Agile project environment - 2-3yrs
- Identification and formulation of solution architecture and solution alternatives and their assessment - 5+ yrs
- Experience with current research and standards in Solution Architecture - 2-3 yrs
- Experience implementing solutions in an architecture capacity in the FinTech industry - 5-10 yrs
- Experience in architecting FinTech solutions from a security perspective - 3-5yrs
- Experience in architecting payment platforms and supporting technologies - 3-5yrs
- Finance or treasury background - 1-3yrs
- Experience in defining and documenting reconciliation in line with set standards - 1-3yrs
- Retail banking experience - 1-3yrs
- Retail industry experience with an understanding of retail business processes - 2-3 yrs
- Experience and exposure to utilise commercial payment gateways for online payments - 1-3yrs
- Experience in alternative payment methods such as QR Code, token and NFC - 1-3yrs
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