Solution Architect

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

About us, purpose, experience and qualifications

**about us**:
**purpose**:

- To create and maintain architecture solutions and to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs within eTrading Technology.**experience and qualifications**:

- TOGAF Certification Advantageous
- Cloud Certifications Advantageous
- Bsc or Bcom in Computer and information system related courses
- Preferred Qualification
- Postgraduate degree AND/OR relevant experience in a similar environment
- Technical Knowledge/ skills and experience
- 5 to 10 years IT Experience preferably focused on architecture
- Experience showing influence at senior levels across multiple jurisdictions.
- Specific experience and demonstrable capability around the effective presentation of Architecture concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions.
- Demonstrable track record of delivering on projects that span multidisciplinary areas, preferably in Markets or Corporate and Investing Banking sector with Enterprise Architecture, Business and IT environments.
- Competences:

- Analysis and Attention to Detail
- Big Picture Thinking
- Drive and Results Orientation
- Problem Solving
- Customer Service Orientation
- Building Relationships**additional requirements**:
**responsibilities**:

- Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities and trends that would add value to the required architectural work
- Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business
- Prepare and share recommendations for process and systems improvements in relevant area of accountability. This includes the requirement to decommission legacy technologies
- Actively participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment (current and planned)
- Partner with BT and Business stakeholders to create integrated roadmaps to enable business requirements delivery
- Partner with Company and other BU architects to contribute to the creation and review of architecture capability strategy which meets the strategic requirements of the business
- Estimate potential changes to business requirements and processes, due to changes/ improvements made in information systems, data management practices, information management procedures, and/ employed software/hardware
- Use appropriate tools and methods to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business / functional areas to improve the efficiency of system and business performance
- Produce systems and component specifications and translate these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products in support of business or systems changes. This includes the alignment of required documentation
- Provide learning and make suggestions on technical aspects of system development and integration
- Monitor adherence to processes which support the prescribed architectural frameworks and ensure delivery teams align to the required standards and methodologies
- Recommend appropriate interventions in own area of ways to improve architectural compliance. This includes BU/FA representation at relevant forums eg. Architecture Board, Cloud Steerco
- Evaluate current landscape and capability; evaluate internal IT functions, business development strategies, IT processes and Identify architectural gaps so that improvements can be actioned.
- Articulate and define complex architectures in a simple way to stakeholders underpinned by a structured analytical approach and high quality Architectural Artefacts and Deliverables
- Ensuring architectural artefacts are well documented and maintained.
- Work and collaborate with technology and business teams to ensure that the right benefit is derived from new and current architectures.
- Auditing compliance to enterprise architecture standards and ensuring that relevant actions are taken where there is non-compliance
- Present and justify solutions/proposals to IT and Business Leaders from Mid Management to CXOs

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