Cloud Solutions Architect

Our Client a Global tech firm is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to join their team in Sandton on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.

You'll be responsible for the design and development of the organization's systems, including cloud computing. You'll need to understand business requirements from both a technical and non-technical perspective, with an eye towards future state vision. You'll also need to be comfortable communicating effectively with stakeholders across all levels in the organization, especially outside of IT.

**Requirements**:

- Develop and regularly maintain a future-state Domain and /or ICT vision in line with the organization's Business and IT Strategies - as well as the roadmap for transforming between current and future Domain vision and or ICT vision
- Govern the development and ongoing review and update of the organization's Domain Principles
- Govern the Architecture Review Board and the regular meeting of this board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with ICT Principles, ICT Standards and Future State Vision
- Participate in the Architecture Review Board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with Domain Principles, Standards and Future State Vision
- Governance of Innovation Ideation and the promotion of innovation ideas to Proof of Concept and Pilot Projects
- Work with operational teams to determine opportunities for improvement and define business requirements.
- Ensure continuous alignment between architectural delivery and the operational implementation and integrity of IT systems.
- Provide leadership and vision for the optimization and rationalization of ICT infrastructure - aimed at increasing capability and/or IT cost savings and/or IT Service Levels.
- Provide an Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence capability to the organization
- Provide mentorship and coaching to all Architecture teams within the organization.
- Develop and regularly review and where necessary recommend updates to the organization's Domain standards the organization's IT Strategy and the on-going maintenance thereof w.r.t. emerging technology utilization
- Facilitate the organization's knowledge and understanding of current and emerging technology and how it can be leveraged for maximum business benefit
- Calculate the organization's Domain Technical Debt and ensure this is regularly communicated to the Head of Architecture
- Pro-actively recommend changes to Domain implementations to introduce new functionality, reduce IT Cost or improve levels of Service
- Calculate Business Cases and Impact Assessments for emerging technology deployments to meet business need as directed by Business demand,
- Facilitate regular Innovation Days and Innovation Workshops for detailed understanding of emerging technology capability
- Assist in the development of Cloud Solution Architectures requiring Domain technologies and ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains
- Identifies the risk of proposed change impact and develops mitigating actions to enable Enterprise wide solutions
- Monitor emerging cloud trends and evaluates their potential impact on the broader organization
- Ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains
- Conduct Issue/Dispute resolution across Architectural disciplines
- Lead the achievement of Cloud Architecture Solution across multiple disciplines and domains
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking

**Qualifications**
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field required
- Strong knowledge of Cloud computing, system architecture and programming language selection preferred
- Must have excellent understanding of the following: XML, XSLT, CSS, JQuery, AJAX, RESTful APIs and more