Senior Solution Architect

6 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa A 1L Realization (Pty) Ltd Full time

**Solution Design**
- Lead projects (from a design and technical leadership perspective) through the systems development life cycle, including the successful adherence to all relevant IS governance.

**Relationship Management**
- Maintain close contact with business operations, strategies, information requirements, and priorities to align with IS architecture.
- Consult with IS advisory bodies (Gartner, Tele Management Forum, etc) and vendors, as well as media scanning.
- Ensure that project architectural risks are properly identified, assessed and handled/mitigated, and highlight/resolve inter-project technical dependencies.
- Continuously review, improve and integrate processes and systems, in order to overcome fragmentation.

**Efficiency and Documentation**
- Update the Enterprise Repository and other architecture artefacts.
- Assist with administrative requirements and compliance to policies, guidelines, processes and other governance.
- Liaise with other departments to ensure efficient processes, quality and integrity of information and the flow thereof.
- Ensure reasonable and practical adherence to all industry standards and best practices IS subscribes to (like TM Forum Frameworx, TOGAF, etc).

**Activities to be performed and key outputs**
- Map business and solution capabilities in business architecture models as part of future state architectures across multiple domains for a Telecommunications environment
- Capture architecture transformation requirements, understand the As-Is architectures, architectural gaps and map out To-Be architectures including transition architecture and roadmaps aligned to program plans
- Develop and present the Enterprise Solution architectures to meet business/technology requirements
- Ensures architecture work products are governed by the Architecture governance process for the development of all architectural concepts, strategies, decisions, policies, patterns, frameworks & technology standards
- Oversee the analysis of technical specifications and High-level solutions designs (HLDs) for completeness and conformance to documented requirements
- Maintain appropriate end-to-end enterprise solution architecture models by appropriately aggregating project and initiative solution architectures into an enterprise architecture repository.
- Ensure the quality and viability of the team / vendors deliverables
- Design and delivery of solutions through multiple 3rd party System Integrators and effectively manage those System integrators to successful project completion
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on projects following the SA Enterprise & Solution Architecture function engagement model, governance processes and delivery outputs

**Skills & Expertise**:

- Strategic and analytical capabilities
- Skilled technological architect in large scale enterprises
- Strong technology leadership with creative thinking and planning skills
- Identify, clarify and resolve issues and risks, escalating them as needed.
- Solicit, verify and document business requirements working with cross
- disciplinary teams
- Translate business needs into requirements for technical architecture
- Estimate financial impact of the solution architecture alternatives
- Translate complex business cases / needs into workable technology solutions
- Demonstrable ability to Identify and communicate inter-project dependencies to stakeholders and other project team members
- Organise and deliver presentations for steering committees and other executive stakeholder meetings
- Frequent, and active, participation in working groups, with proven ability to Operate at all levels of seniority.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully managing expectations of multiple stakeholders within a dynamic and changing project landscape
- Previous experience in leadership, negotiation, influencing ability, flexibility & adaptability as per the needs of the project
- Communication Effective written and verbal communication skills suited for technical audiences, peers, IT management, vendors and data users.
- Planning and Organising Effective at planning and managing own workload and ability to split time between reactive tasks and planned project work.
- Teamwork Effective at contributing towards the objectives of a team, and being able to share knowledge, experience, ideas and information. Aware of the needs, objectives and constraints of those in other disciplines and functions.
- Problem Solving and Decision Making Effective at solving problems in a measured and creative way. Proactive in relation to identifying and undertaking activities that are of benefit to the business. Effective at balancing long and short term objectives. Responsible for own decisions and actions.
- Leadership capabilities: influence and convince, make trade-offs and decisions.
- Lead contractors and liaising with the vendors while also challenging their proposals and deliverables to achieve the right level of quality.
- Ability to handle mult

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