Solution Architect: Retail Non-Supermarket

SUMMARY:
Solution Architect: Retail Non-Supermarket

POSITION INFO:

Datonomy has 20 years'' experience in data and digital solutions, we are perfectly placed to catapult you onto the career path of your dreams. Our projects cover the full spectrum of data; therefore, we can offer you access to the most interesting, innovative, and ground-breaking work currently being done.

Our goal is to positively impact One Billion People by 2030 - and we can only achieve this if our clientsand our people collaborate on projects and solutions that will change the world.

Solution Architect:  Retail Non-Supermarkets

As a recognized authority in retail solutions, Retail ERP and or FMCG, the retail solution architect strategically advises and shapes requirements for non-supermarket solutions and creates high quality data, application, and technology architectures in support of the business requirements and leads the realization of the design into the final solution implementation. Deep subject matter knowledge including Retail, FMCG, pharmaceutical, furniture and finance architectures as applicable to the Retail business domain is essential.

Job Objective:

• Define and continuously improve the architecture framework and solution architecture modelling standards.
• Define and create solution level retail architecture models that are aligned with business blueprints, non-functional requirements, delivery constraints, data, application, and technology standards.
• Provide expert retail guidance, ensure solution architectures and designs are in line with the technology standards and conduct architecture and design reviews as part of the Architecture Review Committee.

Task Information:

• Define and continuously improve the architecture framework and solution architecture modelling standards.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the business strategy and changes to business priorities.
• Define a structured architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.
• Architect the next-generation framework developed on a group of core technologies.
• Align to the enterprise data reference architecture in support of the enterprise and regulatory information governance needs such as Information Security, Enterprise Information Management, POPI, PCI, etc.
• Identify, define and communicate standards, guidelines, formats, meta-models, policies, best practices, and governance practices for architectures and designs.
• Ensure that the architecture approach integrates into the methodologies and processes of the rest of the Enterprise Architecture team.
• Stay abreast of best practices and / or new developments in retail and related disciplines and drive adoption as deemed appropriate.
• Define and create solution level retail architecture models that are aligned with business blueprints, non-functional requirements, delivery constraints, data, application, and technology standards.
• Analyze business requirements and create related retail architectures and designs for the baseline ("as is") and target ("to be") solution architectures.
• Define retail architecture governance processes and quality compliance criteria.
• Perform quality assurance checks on retail architectures and designs and enforce quality compliance criteria to set policies and standards.
• Perform quality checks on existing retail architectures and designs to identify potential business risks areas and make re-engineering recommendations.
• Ensure retail security conforms to Information Security Governance policies and standards.
• Provide expert retail guidance, ensure solution architectures and designs are in line with the retail technology standards and conduct architecture and design reviews as part of the Architecture Review Committee.
• Be clearly identified as the retail technical lead for non-supermarkets and provide technical guidance and leadership in proposals, RFIs, RFPs, and BI project teams.
• Provide architectural oversight and guidance to development teams to ensure high-quality technical solution designs during the detailed design, build, test and deploy phases that conforms to architecture principles and standards.
• Mentor senior developers / designers / business analysts to become Solution Architects.
• Define and develop the overall retail architecture landscape in partnership with the Domain Architect, Data Analytics team and other Solution Architects.
• Review proposed solution architectures ensuring alignment with architecture principles, the architecture framework, cloud reference architectures, set technology standards and identify critical gaps, and recommend improvements.
• Give guidance and advice to peers in respect to retail solution designs ensuring the designs conform to industry best practices and standards

Qualification:

• Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science (or similar)

Job Related Experience

• Working experience within the IT industry.
• Working experience in retail or FMCG with at least 5 project lifecycles
• Retail industry experience with an understanding of retail business processes.
• Understanding of different methods of SAP integration (ALE/IDOC, enterprise services, MFT, SAP PI, SAP CPI, etc.)
• Worked on projects across multiple applications, SAP an

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