Solution Architect

Recruiter:

Network Recruitment International

Job Ref:

NCS000178/Judit

Date posted:

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Hourly

JOB SUMMARY:
The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of a 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 development of technical stories are aligned to defined architecture paradigms, principles, and patterns.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Key Accountabilities and Decision Ownership:
- 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, fostering 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

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, PaaSand 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 field
- Five to seven years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis,
database management or operations in a multi-tier 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
- Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
- Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries strongly preferred

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