Senior Solutions Architect

 

Recruiter:

Progressive Edge

Job Ref:

SA003

Date posted:

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

Market related


JOB SUMMARY:
Senior Solutions Architect | Permanent | Cape Town

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Senior Solutions Architect

Permanent

Cape Town

Job Description:

A cloud technical lead who is able to confidently move from architectural definition and technical guidance to hands-on implementation and troubleshooting.

Main duties and responsibilities:

  • Explore and grow new technology in support of future organisational direction.
  • Champion the adoption of industry best practices to push development standards.
  • Provide architecture artefacts in accordance with business and project requirements.
  • Identify cross functional opportunities, partner with your peers in the organisation and connect business objectives with technical vision.
  • Leading the team to make the correct compromises between short-term business opportunity and long-term technical vision.
  • Drive innovation
  • Participate in the evolution and direction of the company’s cloud strategy.
  • Design, implement and deploy dynamically scalable, and highly available systems on leading cloud providers.
  • Conceptualize on-premises, cloud components, security, networking, and monitoring solutions.
  • Aid in the design and planning to migrate existing complex on-premises applications to cloud platforms.
  • Identify risk items.
  • Provide thought leadership and advisory services while working in an agile development environment including cloud infrastructure, DataOps, DevOps and MLOps concepts.

Ideal qualifications/skills:

  • BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
  • Microsoft-certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Microsoft-certified Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
  • Certified SOA Architect
  • Track record in building and running large scale systems professionally for 10+ years
  • Experience in communicating with and presenting to Senior stakeholders
  • A minimum of 5+ years of experience in an architect role, leading design of complex systems
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience with technology development and delivery, with particular focus on Azure platform services, such as: ADF, Synapse, Databricks, Compute, containers, integration, logic apps, storage, web and
  • DevOps
  • Possess a deep understanding of programming fundamentals, design patterns, building for scalability, performance, high-availability, clustering and security
  • Proficient in API design using REST, SOAP
  • Proficient in UML, BPM, and the use of Architecture Design tools e.g., Sparx or similar experience using tools such as Lucid or Visio

Ideal experience:

  • Background in designing cloud solutions and services
  • Experience in interfacing with multi-faceted teams, internally and externally (Infrastructure, Application Development, Analysts)
  • Experience in improving performance and reliability of complex systems
  • Experience in designing for middleware integration and exposure to ESBs and API management
  • Understanding of security by design and principles for general security of applications, integration, networking and storage
  • Systems knowledge:
  • Microsoft .NET Stack
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Other cloud platforms and services

Competencies and ideal personality attributes:

  • Comfortable working with diverse and multi-disciplined teams
  • A bias for action, ability to move fast in the face of ambiguity, experiment and implement with fast iterations
  • Self-driven and comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-performance environment
  • A passionate team member, who is adaptable and forward-thinking
  • Ability to accept constructive feedback, adapt and produce the necessary outputs that are in the best interest of the organization
  • Inspired by having ideas and decisions challenged to ensure improvement
  • Superb problem-solving ability, with a knack for technical innovation
  • Ability to communicate with business and technical audiences and produce collateral suitable for multiple audience types, both client-facing and internal
  • Ability to perform under pressure in a deadline-driven environment
  • Ability to pivot should the strategic direction change

Most important attribute:

  • A strong communicator who is able to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audiences, including executive

 

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