Senior Specialist : Solution Architect

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment International

Job Ref:

NCM000168/PhL

Date posted:

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Hourly

JOB SUMMARY:
24 Month Contract - Telecommunications Industry

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of solutions and capability architecture for a particular business capability/user journey, according to the overall digital vision and target architecture. This role is responsible for the technical analysis and holistic solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain APIs, and technical enablers/stories. This role is responsible for reviewing the target architecture vision and roadmap, evaluating and prioritizing roadmap items, and translating them into designs and non-functional requirements. This incumbent is responsible for providing support to engineering to ensure the development of technical stories is aligned to defined architecture paradigms, principles, and patterns.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Translate the overall digital vision and target architecture into corresponding solution designs and change requirements
Design end-to-end solutions and cross domain integration and APIs
Define non-functional, operational, and quality requirements for solutions
Define technical stories to enable business capabilities, foster re-use of existing components, and accept technical features following demos
Collaborate to plan the release of technical stories
Provide guidance to delivery teams to ensure alignment
Facilitate solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs
Manage technical debt and technology obsolescence at the solution level
Advocate adoption of new technologies into solutions

Core competencies, knowledge and experience
Solution architecture and design
- Feasibility analysis
- Business capability/customer journey architecture governance in agile software delivery
- Technical enablers, integration APIs, and detailed technical and operational story design
- Infrastructure design
- Estimation techniques for scaled agile
- Technology Innovation: scouting, screening and evaluation
- Cost of ownership of technology, application portfolio management
- Web-scale cloud-native architectures including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
- Design of web-scale architectures and systems of innovation and engagement

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Analysis, or other related fields
Five to seven years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, C2 General middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment
Extensive exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
Extensive experience in business capability modelling and technical and solution architecture development in a digital business context
Experiences working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries are strongly preferred

Please note this is a HYBRID role with a combination of office and remote work required.

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