Senior Solutions Architect

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