Senior Solutions Architect

**Senior Solutions Architect**

Permanent

Cape Town

A cloud technical lead who is able to confidently move from architectural definition and technical guidance to hands-on implementation and troubleshooting.
**Main duties and responsibilities**:

- Explore and grow new technology in support of future organisational direction.
- Champion the adoption of industry best practices to push development standards.
- Provide architecture artefacts in accordance with business and project requirements.
- Identify cross functional opportunities, partner with your peers in the organisation and connect business objectives with technical vision.
- Leading the team to make the correct compromises between short-term business opportunity and long-term technical vision.
- Drive innovation
- Participate in the evolution and direction of the companys cloud strategy.
- Design, implement and deploy dynamically scalable, and highly available systems on leading cloud providers.
- Conceptualize on-premises, cloud components, security, networking, and monitoring solutions.
Identify risk items.
- Provide thought leadership and advisory services while working in an agile development environment including cloud infrastructure, DataOps, DevOps and MLOps concepts.
**Ideal qualifications/skills**:

- BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Microsoft-certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft-certified Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
- Certified SOA Architect
- Track record in building and running large scale systems professionally for 10+ years
- Experience in communicating with and presenting to Senior stakeholders
- A minimum of 5+ years of experience in an architect role, leading design of complex systems
- Minimum of 5 years experience with technology development and delivery, with particular focus on Azure platform services, such as: ADF, Synapse, Databricks, Compute, containers, integration, logic apps, storage, web and
- DevOps
- Possess a deep understanding of programming fundamentals, design patterns, building for scalability, performance, high-availability, clustering and security
- Proficient in API design using REST, SOAP
- Proficient in UML, BPM, and the use of Architecture Design tools e.g., Sparx or similar experience using tools such as Lucid or Visio
**Ideal experience**:

- Background in designing cloud solutions and services
- Experience in interfacing with multi-faceted teams, internally and externally (Infrastructure, Application Development, Analysts)
- Experience in improving performance and reliability of complex systems
- Experience in designing for middleware integration and exposure to ESBs and API management
Systems knowledge:

- Microsoft.NET Stack
- Microsoft Azure
- Other cloud platforms and services
**Competencies and ideal personality attributes**:

- Comfortable working with diverse and multi-disciplined teams
- A bias for action, ability to move fast in the face of ambiguity, experiment and implement with fast iterations
- Self-driven and comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-performance environment
- A passionate team member, who is adaptable and forward-thinking
- Ability to accept constructive feedback, adapt and produce the necessary outputs that are in the best interest of the organization
- Inspired by having ideas and decisions challenged to ensure improvement
- Superb problem-solving ability, with a knack for technical innovation
- Ability to communicate with business and technical audiences and produce collateral suitable for multiple audience types, both client-facing and internal
- Ability to perform under pressure in a deadline-driven environment
- Ability to pivot should the strategic direction change
**Most important attribute**:

- A strong communicator who is able to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audiences, including executive