Job Ref #: BL-453 Industry: Telecommunications Job Type: Permanent Positions Available: 1
Responsible for the development of Technology solutions and mapping the business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plans.
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE
Responsible for the development of Technology solutions and mapping the business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plans.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Team Management
- Engage with various leaders and Senior Manager Architect, to design solutions and create better enterprise frameworks
- Mentor and coach, the solution architects, promoting professional growth and skill enhancement
- Efficiently allocate team resources to optimize workflow and meet project deadlines
- Conduct regular performance assessments, offering constructive feedback and implementing improvement plans as needed
- Collaborate with HR to identify and attract top talent for the Solution architecture team
- Proactively address conflicts within the team, promoting a positive and collaborative work environment
- Implement effective conflict resolution strategies to maintain a cohesive and motivated team
- Facilitate regular knowledge-sharing sessions to ensure best practices are disseminated and adopted
- Encourage a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Strategy Implementation
- Collaborate with Senior manager enterprise to Develop, define, solution architect strategy aligned with overall business objectives
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to inform the evolution of solution architecture
- Lead the solution architects to develop detailed implementation plans for solution Architecture initiatives, considering timelines, resource requirements, and potential challenges
- Ensure alignment of solution architecture initiatives with the organization’s strategic goals
- Establish metrics and KPIs and department objectives to measure the effectiveness of solution architecture processes
Solution Architect support
- Limit choices available during development by choosing a standard way of pursuing application development creating, defining, or choosing an application framework for the application
- Recognize potential reuse in the organization or in the application by observing and understanding the broader system environment creating the component design having knowledge of other applications in the organization
- Subdivide a complex application, during the design phase, into smaller, more manageable pieces
- Grasp the functions of each component within the application
- Understand the interactions and dependencies among components
Communicate these concepts to developers
Assist Senior manager in the Review, develop and maintain the organization’s
- IT architecture
- Review and evaluate the current state of the organization’s architecture (‘as-is) in order to identify duplications, what is working, what is not working and measure the health of key business processes that are supported by the current architecture
- Build the transition architecture to connect the current to the future state by creating an iterative roadmap to get to the desired state
- Recommend and provide changes to the business in easily digestible iterative changes
- Work in liaison with business stakeholders to develop Business Architecture Roadmaps containing tactical and strategic initiatives to reach target business capabilities
- Identify and resolve dependencies and impacts across the architecture landscape
- Design solutions based on business requirements that align with Reference Architecture policies and standards
- Provide expertise in designing solutions for custom requirements
- Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders and conduct stakeholder reviews of architecture roadmaps and designs
- Assist Senior manager in determining Solution Architecture policy and standards definition and evolution and works with PMO to coordinate project pipeline management
- Engage relevant peers from other disciplines or domains during implementation of Solution Architecture/Design ebfRCu3 BTn6yA
- Accountable to build a defined life cycle around reviewing the future state enterprise architecture
Customer Centricity
- Coordinates contact with Business Partners as needed to assist with support activities
- Establish and maintain a positive professional relationship with Business Partners and customers
- Maintain regular and timely communications with Business Partners and customers
- Maintain strong working relationship with customers and Business Partners
- Work with customers and Business Partners to execute consistent service processes throughout the organization
- Establish a single point of contact for issue resolution and change management
- Drive customer centricity in levels of the organization
Work Collaboratively
- Build a culture of integrity, respect and understanding across the organisation
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication, and collaboration across the organisation
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders (Retailers and POS Companies) to develop joint solutions
- Demonstrate ability to work and engage with various teams
- Demonstrate ability to communicate at all levels
Job Requirements
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Assertive
- Analytical
- Flexible
- Tech Savvy
- Attention to detail
- Customer focused
- Evaluating problems
- Processing details and information
- Building relationships & Trust
- Communicating information
- Providing leadership
EDUCATION
- Matric
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems
- Equivalent experience required TOGAF certification
EXPERIENCE
- 8+ years’ experience Solution Architect role
- 3-5 years of leading the solution architect teams
- Knowledge of the relevant Information Technology governance and legislative framework (such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, ASAP, SOA)
- Strong Microsoft Office productivity tools knowledge (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Atlassian and Jira knowledge (advantageous)
More Information
- Job City Sandton, South Africa
