A large financial Service Company based in Johannesburg seeks a Solutions Architect with:
Minimum Requirements
- 5 to 7 years’ experience on software development in corporate environments, of which at least two years in team leadership capacity
- Component based development and Web-Service integration experience is essential and then advantageous are Oracle, Spring, Hibernate, Business Rule Engines, Native Mobile, File based integration, Apache, LVS, REST, Networking/Security/Storage/OS exposure
- Hands on coding experience at a senior developer level
- Data modelling experience
- Enterprise exposure
- Advantageous: Process modelling experience
- Advantageous: Presentation skills
- Advantageous: Micro service architecture
- Advantageous: Model driven development
Role Purpose:
Understand and analyse business requirements and provide solution proposals based on a deep knowledge of current systems capabilities, as well as a broad knowledge of available industry-relevant solution components
Responsibilities:
- Builds relationships with key client stakeholders in the Company global businesses in order to build trust that will help to ensure deliverables stay on track
- Builds relationships with key systems stakeholders within the Company Systems teams to create a collaborative environment in which all stakeholders can constructively work towards and achieve common goals
- Critically analyses stated customer requirements and acts as a consultant in providing considered feedback based on knowledge of business and systems environments in order to deliver exactly what the customer specified
- Contributes to the Customer Requirements Specification document
- Creates solution proposal documents which include the proposed paradigm and technology, as well as providing priority ranking of the architectural system qualities (re-usability, performance etc.) And in accordance with current standards, and governance framework
- Engages with systems architects and development teams to ensure a smooth transition from the proposed solution into the SDLC and through implementation to final release
- Continues to be involved post-release in ensuring that the solution satisfies client needs, both functional and architectural
- Research and development – conduct structured search and evaluation processes of market offerings and technologies to stay abreast of technology and competition
- Involvement in developing guidelines and standards and in coaching through participation in internal forums to improve methodologies, internal processes and overall architectural rigour
- Translate logical designs into physical designs taking into account the target environment, performance requirements, existing systems and any potential safety-related issues and architecture
- Ensure standards are enforced and are aligned with overall strategic architectural objectives
- Investigate, analyse and document reported defects and correct identified defects
- Making design decisions based on business requirements, which take into consideration functional and non-functional requirements of the system
- Contribution to enterprise architecture competency
- Breaking down high-level system components into lower-level functional components for smaller teams to develop
For more information please contact Bongiwe 011 234 0404, alternatively email your updated CV to bongiwe@esmartgroup.co.za
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