Solution Architect

Introduction

IQbusiness is the leading independent management consulting firm in South Africa. At IQbusiness, we attract talented people from diverse backgrounds and commit ourselves to helping each person achieve his or her full potential. We are committed to growing each individual, and providing them with the challenges, feedback and support needed to achieve success.

Minimum Requirements

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Industry recognized Architecture certification such as, TOGAF, ZACHMAN
- Cloud solution architect certification in AWS or Microsoft Azure
- A proven track record as a solution architect delivering well designed solution artefacts
- At least 5 years' experience in a similar position
- A minimum of 10 years of IT experience
- Experience in Financial Services, Retail and Medical industry sectors would be beneficial
- Strong organizational skills and leadership skills
- Presentation and communication skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross-functional audiences
- Experience in Agile methodology

**Requirements**:

- Architecture experience within the various architecture domains which consists of Business, Data, Application, Infrastructure and Security Architecture domains
- Architect IT solutions which encompass both functional and non-functional components across multiple elements of the enterprise in every solution designed
- Ability to align business requirements to proposed solution architectures
- Ability to extract, structure and document solution architecture analysis
- Skills in presenting to peers, IT, Governance forums, Business stakeholders and Executives.
- Ability to map the proposed business solution onto a various frameworks including security, legal, compliance, risk management etc.
- Ability to function well under pressure
- An options thinker

Job Specification

**Description**:

- ideation,
- high level conceptual solution design,
- detailed level solution design,
- solution requirements verification,
- defining solutions options
- collaborative selection of optimal solutions and transitions
- solution implementation and issue resolution

**Competencies**
- Ability to develop business models
- Ability to do high level system solution designs
- Ability to extract, structure and document solution analysis
- Presentation skills
- Ability to map the proposed business solution onto a legal framework
- Ability to function well under pressure
- An options thinker
- Facilitate or lead meetings, teams, or work groups to encourage participation, build mutual trust, respect and cooperation among participants
- Ability to consult management and engineering teams with technical advice. In particular regarding:

- Business analysis;
- Project management;
- IT architecture, infrastructure, cloud development;
- Engineering, software architecture design, DevOps;
- Communication skills which involves:

- Interpreting and corresponding to the needs of all involved parties, explaining related risks;
- Keeping in touch with stakeholders;
- Handling product delivery
- Closely interacting with development teams, related enterprise/software architects, business analysts, etc.
- Deep analytical skills and the ability to see the connections between layers of business operations.
- Addressing the needs of the corporate strategy.
- Understanding the specifics of the technology.
- Understanding how different parts of the business operation are connected with each other and how business processes achieve their goals.
- Please note: As all IQbusiness roles requires honesty in the handling of or access to cash, finances, financial systems or confidential information; our recruitment process requires that the following background checks be completed: credit, criminal, ID and qualification verification._