IT Solutions Architect

SUMMARY:
IT Solutions Architect

POSITION INFO:

Duties & Responsibilities:

Responsible for Solutions Architecture

• Develop the solution architectures for the different projects
• Combine various domain (business, data, application and technology) architectural as-is and to-be models, with roadmaps to create an overall solution architecture and roadmap with the supporting transition architectures
• Accountable for the end to end delivery of the solution to the business
• Alignment between the EA and the SA to manage project risk and compliance
• Drive optimization of legacy applications for increased efficiency and reduced costs
• Reduce IT environment complexity and cost through consolidation and rationalization
• Consider re-using of existing asset and cost saving in all roadmaps and designs (Driving cost down) to support the IT Departmental objectives
• Drive digitization and modernization by leveraging new technologies and architectures

Responsible for IT Governance decisions

• Member of the IT Governance Committees
• Make joint decisions based on the IT needs of the organisation

Responsible for development for complex components in IT Solutions

Requirements           

Formal Education:

• BEng Software Engineer / BSc Computer Science / Relevant IT Degree
• Technical Certification:
• TOGAF Certification (advantage)
• Microsoft AZURE Architect Technologies Certification (advantage)

Experience:

• 4 years’ experience in Cloud architecture
• 5 years’ experience in IT application architecture
• 4 years’ experience in project management
• 5-8 years’ experience in the following:

• application design
• data design
• system integration
• ICT industry standards
• services design
• solutions modelling
• application development
• 8 years’ experience in long term insurance industry

Knowledge:

• Technology: Microsoft Tech Stack (SQL, .Net, C#, VB.NET (advantage), Azure Tech Stack, Angular 7.x+ and Bootstrap 4.x+,HTML5 and CSS3 , JavaScript
• WCF Restful / Web API Entity Framework (.NET and .NET Core) .NET Core Micro Services
• WCF, WPF, ASP.net; MVC, OOP,.NET Framework,
• MVC Web Applications
• IT Governance: COBIT, ITIL, ISACA, Kanban, Scrum, DevOps
• Development: Scripting, Programming, Interfacing, Object- Oriented Programming, Design Patterns
• Infrastructure: Network, Server, Workstation, Peripherals, Security
• Frameworks: TOGAF, Zachman, ACORD or related
• Digital: Understanding digital and emerging technologies
• Operational Awareness: Designing solutions taking operability, cost, and business processes into account
• Business Knowledge & Contributions: Understands the broader business environment in which they work from an industry, organisation, Business Unit and role perspective.

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