Systems Architect

Western Cape
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- CPT - Northern Suburbs
- Market related- Market Related
- Monthly
- (Market related)
- A Telecomms Company has a vacancy for a Systems Architect. The position will be either full time or fixed term.
This is a remote role with the requirement to travel occasionally to Stellenbosch for meetings. The roles reports to the Head of Digital Innovation.

**PURPOSE OF THE ROLE**: The Systems Architect is responsible for leading the technical design of the OSS/BSS system. This includes collaborating with business analysts to turn functional designs into technical design documentation and guiding developers through the design so that they can execute the system design. Further the systems architect is responsible for reviewing current architecture and suggesting improvements to achieve efficiencies
- PLEASE NOTE: THIS POSITION WILL BE EITHER PERMANENT OR CONTRACT. TO BE DISCUSSED.
- SQL - Data management and analysis
- JavaScript (basic to intermediate)
- HTML/XML- understanding of style sheets, web development concepts and HTTP requests
- APIs and JSON (Particularly RESTful APIs but also SOAP)
- Understanding of the OSI Model
- Basic Security/Infrastructure knowledge (System design to align to security and infrastructure requirements)
- Experience with software development lifecycles
- Strong communication and organisational skills
- Be able to work well in teams
- Stakeholder Management
- 2 Years’ Project Management experience will be advantageous
- Minimum 3 years proven experience working as a Systems Architect is required
- Relevant ITC, BCom or similar degree will be an advantage

**Key Performance Areas would include, but are not limited to**:

- Ensuring that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements
- Reviewing existing system architecture and recommending improvements and participating in engineering reviews to determine any ambiguities.
- Investigate and scope change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required
- Determining system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements
- Documentation:

- Technical systems specifications
- Diagrams - Process flows, System Context Diagrams, ERDs
- Production of Development instructions - translation of functional requirements and technical specs into development tickets for development and testing purposes
- Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the Company’s goals and strategies.
- For more information please contact:

- Dawn Hamer