Solutions Architect

SUMMARY:
Position: Solutions Architect Industry: Insurance Job Functions: Information Technology Location: Menlyn, Gauteng Salary: To be discussed Duration: Permanent Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 January 2021

POSITION INFO:

Position: Solutions Architect
Industry: Insurance
Job Functions: Information Technology
Location: Menlyn, Gauteng
Salary: To be discussed
Duration: Permanent
Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 January 2021

PURPOSE:
To coordinate the architectural design and implementation of a solution in alignment with Enterprise Architecture vision.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for Solutions Architecture
• Develop the solution architectures for the different projects.
• Combine various domain (business, data, application, and technology) architectural as-is and to-be models, with roadmaps to create an overall solution architecture and roadmap with the supporting transition architectures.
• Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the solution to the business.
• Alignment between the EA and the SA to manage project risk and compliance.
• Drive optimization of legacy applications for increased efficiency and reduced costs.
• Reduce IT environment complexity and cost through consolidation and rationalization.
• Consider re-using of existing asset and cost saving in all roadmaps and designs (Driving cost down) to support the IT Departmental objectives.
• Drive digitization and modernization by leveraging new technologies and architectures.
• Responsible for IT Governance decisions
• Member of the IT Governance Committees.
• Make joint decisions based on the IT needs of the organisation.
• Responsible for development for complex components in IT Solutions

REQUIREMENTS:

• BEng Software Engineer / BSc Computer Science / Relevant IT Degree
• TOGAF Certification (advantage)
• Microsoft AZURE Architect Technologies Certification (advantage)
• 4 years’ experience in Cloud architecture
• 5 years’ experience in IT application architecture
• 4 years’ experience in project management
• 5-8 years’ experience in the following:
• Application Design
• Data Design
• System Integration
• ICT Industry Standards
• Services Design
• Solutions Modelling
• Application Development
• 8 years’ experience in long term insurance industry

KNOWLEDGE:

• Technology: Microsoft Tech Stack (SQL, .Net, C#, VB.NET (advantage), Azure Tech Stack, Angular 7.x+ and Bootstrap 4.x+, HTML5 and CSS3, JavaScript
• WCF Restful / Web API Entity Framework (.NET and .NET Core) .NET Core Micro Services
• WCF, WPF, ASP.net; MVC, OOP, .NET Framework,
• MVC Web Applications
• IT Governance: COBIT, ITIL, ISACA, Kanban, Scrum, DevOps
• Development: Scripting, Programming, Interfacing, Object- Oriented Programming, Design Patterns
• Infrastructure: Network, Server, Workstation, Peripherals, Security
• Frameworks: TOGAF, Zachman, ACORD or related
• Digital: Understanding digital and emerging technologies
• Operational Awareness: Designing solutions taking operability, cost, and business processes into account
• Business Knowledge & Contributions: Understands the broader business environment in which they work from an industry, organisation, Business Unit and role perspective.

CLOSING STATEMENT:

• Only candidates who meet the above requirements will be considered.
• Please send CV’s in MS Word format to --------Please upload your CV here--------
• If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks, unfortunately your application has not been successful.

CONTACT:
Liesl Lotter
Group Recruitment and FSS Manager
Office : -----
email : --------Please upload your CV here--------

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