Business Applications Solutions Architect

SUMMARY:
Job Title: Business Applications Solutions Architect
 
Location: Umhlanga and remote from home (hybrid)
Reports To: ERP Technical Lead
Contract term: initial 6 months (may be renewed)
Hours: 08h00 – 17h00
Travel: Hybrid (limited travel as needed)
Rate: R1000 p/h
 
About the Role:

• Proactively and holistically leads and supports Solution Architecture activities that guide the development and management of business applications
• Provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks related to supporting the development of technology solutions
• Support data-driven decision-making through architecture of BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, and backend systems like Microsoft SQL Server.
• Provide expert-level support for business-critical applications, with a focus on HSE systems including health and safety management, environmental monitoring, and compliance tracking

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:

Interpret Business Needs and Develop and Maintain Business Applications IT Strategy

• Translate business & technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives & documents all solution architecture design & analysis work
• Develop and articulate a clear technical vision for application solutions, aligning with the company's technology roadmap and architectural principles
• Serve as a Liaison between the Business, Solution Architects, and the AMS Functional teams.
• Works closely with other solution owners and managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business applications and catalog requirements throughout the product lifecycle

• Analyse and troubleshoot complex issues across multiple platforms, ensuring high availability and performance of applications.
• Provide expert-level support for business-critical applications, with a focus on HSE systems including health and safety management, environmental monitoring, and compliance tracking
• Support the migration of business applications to cloud
• Support the Jivs archiving system

• Support solution and service managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information
• Understand emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving applications and operating models (stretch).
• Analyse the technology industry, competitors, and market trends, and determine their potential implications for a given solution (stretch)
• Analyse the Applications-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt, and recommend solutions for improvement (stretch)
• Act as a consultant and advisor to the Functions and Solution Delivery on a broad range ofdevelopment technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes
• Take accountability for ensuring solution implementations and changes deliver business requirements.

• Integrated Technical management and controls
• Technical and audit controls applied with 90% audit compliance, 0 high priority findings
• Current state architecture documentation, vendor assessment for RFPs, contribution to cost/benefit analysis, contributions to proof-of-concept implementation(stretch)
• Solution documentation, enterprise target state architecture (stretch), application/platform strategy (stretch)

• B Comm or relevant tertiary qualification
• 10+ years of supporting business applications
• Knowledge of Power BI and data analysis
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL, Power BI, and data visualisation tools
• Experience working with HSE applications and systems, including health and safety management, environmental monitoring, and compliance tracking
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to translate complexity to simplicity

• Architecture design and documentation
• Application lifecycle management
• Data architecture and visualisation
• Cloud migration support
• Stakeholder management and vendor engagement
• Commitment to audit and technical control standards