Technical Architect

Enterprise System Architect

**Job Title**: Technical Architect

**Job Level**: Professional

Industry Information Technology

Department Software Factory

Reports to Software Factory Manager

Location Hybris - Centurion and home office

Formal Qualification(s) Relevant IT degree / Diploma

Legal Requirements Passed credit and criminal checks S.A Citizen or valid work permit for S.A

Experience 4-6 Years minimum of work-related experience and skills

Employment Type Fixed Term

Joining Date Immediately

General Purpose of the position

The Technical Architect will be responsible for technical architecture designs. The role begins with understanding business information needs and translating these into appropriate technical solutions by defining the security design, technical architecture, and requirements to support business needs.

This position requires a strong technical knowledge of Hardware, Operating systems, 3rd party software architectures with their implications with IT security, ability to capture the key business needs, implementations, and have hands on expertise to integrate security into business solutions. As a member of this team you will have the unique opportunity to identify, prioritize, and drive execution of technical and security architectures throughout the business.

This is a great opportunity to make a strong impact across our organization and support our customer base.

**Description of Role: Key Objectives**:

- Work with the software factory including business, development and architects and the customers to design the most cost/performance efficient IT and security architecture supporting the business needs, using modelling tools to create effective and easy to understand diagrams (UML / EA / VISIO).
- Create architecture framework, Technical Architecture Design, implementation, and function of information security systems and their corresponding processes, metrics, and impact.
- Hands on experience in installing DBMS (Oracle, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), Operating systems (RHEL and Solaris), Third party software (IBM MQ, JBoss, Reverse Proxies, Load balancers etc), virtualisation software, Container platforms (Kubernetes and/or OpenShift).
- Maintain the security of the company’s products throughout the product lifecycle.Ability to audit IT systems for compliance to corporate standards and policies.Experience with the following technologies; Data Loss Prevention, Vulnerability Management tools.

Data Classification and rights management technologies.Ability to understand network infrastructure, hardware infrastructure, edge and internal firewalls,

associated technologies to help implement use cases to support ongoing business needs.Hands on experience with computer forensics tools, methodologies and root cause analysis review

and reporting.History of successful implementation of infrastructure.Authored technical documentation such as architectures, process diagrams, procedures, policies,

verification and validation documentation and integration diagrams, required.Experience in preparing executive summary presentations.Ability to work at level from initial concept to operational implementation.Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability

to communicate security related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.Must exhibit excellent analytical skills, the ability to manage multiple projects under strict timelines, as

well as the ability to work well in a demanding, dynamic environment and meet overall objectives.Leading customer interactions and presentations at executive and Architectural level (E)

Additional Specific experienceOn time and delivering according to requirements (E&I)Following instructions and procedures (I)Arranging architectural forums, actioning and follow through (I)SWF and TS interaction as well as collaboration (I)Perform audits on TS internal environments ensuring it matches the customers current and future

environments (I)Perform audits on external environments ensuring it matches the roadmap and TAD specifications. (E)Provide guidance to TS from an installation, 3rd party software & latest trends (I)Provide a bridge between technical installation team and business team (product knowledge and

understanding preferable)Sensitivity to various jurisdictions and legal frameworks

Required Experience and Skills
- 4 - 6 Years’ experience in software design, development and infrastructure architectureWorking knowledge of the following:Clear communication between business and technical personnel (being able to explain something to

non-technical personnel and/or clients)IBM MQ, e.g. performing upgrades, troubleshooting and running scriptsOracle DBMS, e.g. backup’s, recovery, capacity management, upgrades, monitoring, tuning,

replication, SQL scripts and security administrationCore operating system RHEL and Solaris, e.g. various tasks such as backups, upgrades and

troubleshootingClusterin