Applications Architect

Location: Centurion

Type: Permanent

Status: EE only

Starting date: Urgent

Requirement/Job Description

• Contribute to the development of area specific budgets to minimise expenditure, in alignment with operational plans.
• Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
• Implement and provide input into governance processes, systems and legislation within area of specialisation.
• Escalate unresolved policy and governance compliance issues via appropriate channels for investigation and resolution purposes.
• Provide input into the risk identification processes development and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum
• Continuously develop own expertise in terms of industry and subject matter development and application thereof in an area of specialisation
• Contribute to the process of negotiating objective and realistic service level agreements, monitor appropriateness and recommend adjustments.
• Define service practices which builds rewarding relationships, encourages innovation and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
• Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure that client expectations are managed.
• Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients within area of responsibility.
• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service
• Accountable for composition of detailed technical specifications, unit testing, and support documentation.
• Accountable for application development technical processes, from design to application.
• Define, document and maintain Application Architecture standards within the relevant business area.
• Collaborate with functional and technical leads from various teams to ensure an integrated and aligned solution and technology approach.
• Provide process improvement recommendations to the software design/development team, to achieve best practices and high performance.
• Provide accurate estimates of required effort for design and development, to assist in capacity management.
• Accountable for appropriate cloud enablement and migration.

• Identify and investigate appropriate SaaS, IaaS and PaaS applicable to the line of business systems.

Experience and Qualifications
• Relevant Computer Science qualification (essential)
• 8-10 years’ experience in software development or experience in IT Architecture (essential)
• 5-7 years experience in development management / solutions management or team lead role (essential)
• Exposure to Agile methodology (essential)
• Experience in the financial services industry (desirable)

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Salary is highly negotiable for the right candidate!