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Design technology solutions for the organisation by defining integrated solution architectures that are aligned with IT strategies and architectures to meet and support the organisation’s goals. KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS What do you have to be able to do to achieve the desired results of your job? Include management and leadership responsibilities for work team leaders
Solution Architecture:
- Define and design solutions that encompass all architecture domains and in line with business requirements, enterprise architecture principles and ICT standards to ensure standardisation and risk management.
- Review and ensure solution architecture designs provide seamless integration, scalability, and security in accordance with the prescribed enterprise architecture.
- Update and maintain the architecture repository with all architecture artifacts as part of architecture implementation governance.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks and issues related to solutions
- Participate in the continuous improvement of solutions and their components.
- Contribute to the development and/or evaluation of Terms of Reference documents to assist business and ICT teams during RFI and RFP process.
- Take accountability for the end-to-end delivery of solution/applications/systems and ensure alignment to the approved architecture.
- Keep up to date with the latest technology trends and bring innovative ideas on how the best solutions can be brought into the organisation.
- Align designed solution with the overall business strategy and ensure it delivers business value.
Stakeholder Management: - Work closely with ICT and business stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure that the solution meets the agreed upon requirements.
- Work within budget constraints and manage resources efficiently.
Job Description for Solution Architect
Revised in November 2024 Page 2 of 3 - Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with the various teams and stakeholders
Desired Skills:
- Same as above
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years Technical / Business Architecture
Desired Qualification Level:
- Degree
About The Employer:
EDUCATION, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE
– Degree in Computer Science
– TOGAF Certification is a requirement. Knowledge of other frameworks (e.g., Zachman) would be an advantage.
– Minimum three (3) years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture tools like Case wise, Visio, or Sparx Enterprise Architect.
– Minimum ten (6) years’ experience working in development and integration of large-scale solutions involving multiple technologies, functions, and interfaces across in-house and vendor supplied system.
– Minimum ten (6) years’ experience with best practices and design patterns when designing distributed systems, systems integrations and microservices.
– Minimum three (6) years’ experience in designing solutions (business, data, application, infrastructure and security domains) as a Solution Architect.
– In-depth understanding (and expertise in at least one) in system analysis, software development, databases, networks, security, and infrastructure.
– Solid knowledge in development of system requirements from business requirements specification documents including server infrastructure, capacity planning, storage requirements, virtualisation and networking protocols for cloud and/or on-premises environments.
– In-depth understanding of cloud architecture, with a focus on Azure. This includes cloud infrastructure, scalability, monitoring and security within solution architecture designs.
– Ability to guide project teams to ensure that solutions are developed and deployed in accordance with approved solution architecture.
– Solid knowledge in one or more of the following technology concepts: Big Data, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, AI, Data Mining, ETL for cloud and/or on-premises environments.
– Ability to recognise functional interdependencies, to assimilate and correlate disconnected procedures and process, and articulate their collective relevance to the organisation.
– Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
– Customer Service: Knows the customer’s business and/or seeks information about the real underlying needs of the customer, beyond those initially expressed.
– Flexibility: Decides how to do something based on the situation at hand.
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Impact and Influence: Adapts a presentation or discussion to appeal to the interest or level of others.
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Organisational commitment: Acts to support the organisations mission and goals.
– Commitment to professional learning: Keeps up to date with international trends that will have an impact on the field of expertise.
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Teamwork: Publicly credits others who have performed well.
– Analytical thinking: Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements into detail, showing causal relationships between them.
– Achievement orientation: Sets and works to meet challenging goals.
– Initiative: Demonstrates the ability to anticipate and proactively manage all the variables involved, to ensure that critical opportunities for the FIC are not missed.
– Tenacity: Anticipates and takes action to create an opportunity or avoid future crisis , looking ahead within a three month timeframe.