Lead Solution Architect

7 months ago


Sandton, South Africa Blue Label Telecoms Full time

**JOB PURPOSE**

Responsible for the development of Technology solutions and mapping the business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plans.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Team Management**
- Engage with various leaders and Senior Manager Architect, to design solutions and create better enterprise frameworks
- Mentor and coach, the solution architects, promoting professional growth and skill enhancement
- Efficiently allocate team resources to optimize workflow and meet project deadlines
- Conduct regular performance assessments, offering constructive feedback and implementing improvement plans as needed
- Collaborate with HR to identify and attract top talent for the Solution architecture team
- Proactively address conflicts within the team, promoting a positive and collaborative work environment
- Implement effective conflict resolution strategies to maintain a cohesive and motivated team
- Facilitate regular knowledge-sharing sessions to ensure best practices are disseminated and adopted
- Encourage a culture of continuous learning and improvement

**Strategy Implementation**
- Collaborate with Senior manager enterprise to Develop, define, solution architect strategy aligned with overall business objectives
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to inform the evolution of solution architecture
- Lead the solution architects to develop detailed implementation plans for solution Architecture initiatives, considering timelines, resource requirements, and potential challenges
- Ensure alignment of solution architecture initiatives with the organization's strategic goals
- Establish metrics and KPIs and department objectives to measure the effectiveness of solution architecture processes

**Solution Architect support**
- Understand the interactions and dependencies among components
- Communicate these concepts to developers
- Assist Senior manager in the Review, develop and maintain the organization’s IT architecture
- Review and evaluate the current state of the organization’s architecture (‘as-is) in order to identify duplications, what is working, what is not working and measure the health of key business processes that are supported by the current architecture
- Build the transition architecture to connect the current to the future state by creating an iterative roadmap to get to the desired state
- Recommend and provide changes to the business in easily digestible iterative changes
- Work in liaison with business stakeholders to develop Business Architecture Roadmaps containing tactical and strategic initiatives to reach target business capabilities
- Identify and resolve dependencies and impacts across the architecture landscape
- Design solutions based on business requirements that align with Reference Architecture policies and standards
- Provide expertise in designing solutions for custom requirements
- Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders and conduct stakeholder reviews of architecture roadmaps and designs
- Assist Senior manager in determining Solution Architecture policy and standards definition and evolution and works with PMO to coordinate project pipeline management
- Engage relevant peers from other disciplines or domains during implementation of Solution Architecture/Design
- Accountable to build a defined life cycle around reviewing the future state enterprise architecture

**Customer Centricity**
- Coordinates contact with Business Partners as needed to assist with support activities
- Establish and maintain a positive professional relationship with Business Partners and customers
- Maintain regular and timely communications with Business Partners and customers
- Maintain strong working relationship with customers and Business Partners
- Work with customers and Business Partners to execute consistent service processes throughout the organization
- Establish a single point of contact for issue resolution and change management
- Drive customer centricity in levels of the organization

**Work Collaboratively**
- Build a culture of integrity, respect and understanding across the organisation
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication, and collaboration across the organisation
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders (Retailers and POS Companies) to develop joint solutions
- Demonstrate ability to work and engage with various teams
- Demonstrate ability to communicate at all levels

**BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES**
- Assertive
- Analytical
- Flexible
- Tech Savvy
- Attention to detail
- Customer focused
- Evaluating problems
- Processing details and information
- Building relationships & Trust
- Communicating information
- Providing leadership

**EDUCATION**
- Matric
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems
- Equivalent ex



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