Head: Solutions Architecture

7 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time

**Core competencies, knowledge and experience**:

- Requires excellent analytical, technical, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Problem solving and decision-making skills
- Presentation and facilitations skills
- Relating and networking
- Leading and supervising
- JAD (Group) facilitation sessions
- TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent preferred
- Microservices and Cloud experience preferred.

**Responsibilities**:

- To support, create and migrate solutions from its current legacy architecture to its new modern platform architecture
- Work with Strategic Growth to design solutions that meet the strategic objectives
- Develop Requirements & Designs (both high level and detailed) in conjunction with Strategic Growth, Customer, Engineering
- To provide architectural guidelines and ensure that architecture principles are adhered to in the development of solutions.
- To analyse and refine requirements for delivering the necessary technology service to business and serve as liaison to the business community.
- Support accurate and practical designs for complete end to end technical delivery ensuring that, at all stages in the development life cycle, solution design meets user requirements and is feasible.
- This will include, inter alia, development of user stories, test cases, etc
- To perform technical analysis in consultation with stakeholders (Technical architects, Product Managers, Operations team, Data and Infrastructure Architects), in order to refine high level business requirements into detailed technical requirements.
- Design scalable and robust Services and Applications that integrate across different technologies.
- Ensure that Legacy and Modern platforms integrate seamlessly.
- Provide high-level designs and guide low-level designs by engineering in response to business requirements and strategy.
- Ensure technical architectures and solutions are aligned with Group principles and technology guidelines.
- Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog.
- To act as a technical liaison between business and the delivery team
- Lead pre-sales work.
- Build a pre-sales capability, including process, work flows, SLA and team management
- Draft and deliver proposals in conjunction with Sales, Strategic Growth and Engineering
- Build implementation capability for project-oriented customer projects (enterprise and data projects typically)



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