Ot Solutions Architect

An International Mining Company has a Contract Vacancy for an OT Solutions Architect.

The Global Solutions Workplace, Solutions Architect is responsible for the Cloud & Computing solutions. This includes setting the long-term strategy for enterprise solutions in line with ever changing industry trends and demanding users, constantly evaluating the marketplace for innovations that can increase collaboration, productivity and mobility, working with the strategic IM partners and BU IM leaders to implement the solutions.

The Solution Architect (SA) plays a critical client-facing role that interprets and translates client requirements into a solution that can be configured from a standard set of offerings. The SA operates as a single point of contact or as part of a team (on large deals with multiple SAs.)

Solution architect roles are also project-facing and provide two areas of support: a business focus in ensuring the correct alignment of the technology with the business needs, and a technology focus in ensuring the technology used is complying with the architectural strategy and standards.

The Solution Architect is responsible for the development of the technology solutions and mapping the business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plan.

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Degree in IT (Cloud certifications required - Microsoft Azure), Business Administration, Engineering, Scientific Discipline, Mining or equivalent.
Minimum of 5 Years' experience in Architecture
- Proven capability of managing a portfolio of global projects
- Proven capability in systems architecture development, solutions design and commercial systems integration to generate competitive advantage
- Ability to lead and manage projects globally
- Capability of representing the business in dealings with external vendors and partners
- Strong ability to identify business requirements and translate into appropriate solutions
- Operating in shared services, outsourcing and matrix environments
- Budget, project and change management

**Usability**:
**Security**:

- Core solutions should enable least-privilege access, whether for end users, employees, business partners, vendors or system administrators
- The SA architect must have the ability to design least-privilege into every IAM function and understand the capabilities of technologies

**Interoperability**:

- For components to operate more automatically and intelligently, they need to consume inputs from other SAs and security systems

**Deployability**:

- Cloud-hosted and cloud-architected IAM solutions are in various phases of maturity, so one approach does not always fit all
- Architecting hybrid deployments, of which some components are hosted in the cloud and others are on-premises, is another important proficiency for the SA architect.
- SA architect needs to account for factors such as routing traffic over the internet and assessing reliability issues with the network
- Architecting additional redundancy in the cloud services may be necessary to account for a disruption in the cloud-delivered IAM service should there be a mismatch between IAM component service levels in the cloud and the on-premises components
- Another deployability consideration is data distribution
- The SA architect may need to design the data model to minimize unnecessary data transfer between identity repositories to optimize throughput and reduce associated costs
- One principle to keep in mind is that, if processing occurs where the data resides, then data transfer is minimized. Services such as data aggregation and transformation can be tuned to support this principle
- Data privacy is also impacted depending on the type of data movement
- Controls need to be put in place to protect data at rest and to ensure no data replication occurs to regions that would violate data residency regulations
- SA architects require a good understanding of containers and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
- If support is required for hybrid or multicloud environments, SA architects need to understand the interoperability between Kubernetes services running on different cloud platforms, as well as on-premises container as a service (CaaS) platforms
- SA architects that need to provide solutions to software developers and architects must have a good understanding of the modern web and mobile architectures and modern web browser and web protocols such as JavaScript and HTML5, latest web standards and protocols and keep track o