Cloud Platform Architect at GoldenRule Technology (Pty) Ltd

The Role

We are looking for an experienced AWS Platform Architect for the Johannesburg and Cape Town regions. As an AWS Platform Architect, you will play a critical role in helping reshape core banking platform servicing thousands of employees and clients by bringing the most innovative and sophisticated banking products to market, via a modern cloud-based architecture, all while working in a highly collaborative agile engineering environment.

We are looking for a change agent that will play a critical role moving our technology and business forward, while providing leadership of cross functional teams that will unlock positive business outcomes.

Skills And Experience

• Expert knowledge of agile development methodologies.
• Display strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization.
• Ability to assess rapidly changing technologies and apply them to business needs.
• Experience in messaging platforms, protocols, and techniques such as Kafka, and event sourcing.
• Experience with Event based application architecture and design.
• Experience deploying applications in cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. AWS is preferred.
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, RDS, DynomoDB, EC2, and Lambda preferred.
• Experience in Service Orchestration e.g. AWS Step Functions.
• Experience in authentication & Identity technologies -Azure AD, Entersetk, Auth0.
• Experience in a wide variety of data storage technologies.
• Experience with gathering end user requirements and writing technical documentation leveraging frameworks
• Experience leveraging various well architected frameworks to drive architecture runways.
• Time management and multitasking skills to effectively meet challenging deadlines.
• Ability to suggest innovative solutions based on new technologies and latest trends
• Understanding of data security and data access controls and design aspects.

Key Accountabilities

• Partner with business leadership to identify problems, and opportunities for technological innovation.
• Help establish a clear, consistent technology vision through collaboration, influence, and enablement.
• Research, recommend, design, and develop the north star architecture for the platform.
• Shape enterprise architecture design patterns, design principles and best practices enhancing platform delivery.
• Drive culture of standardization and architecture transformation.
• Lead technology proof of concepts and benchmarks to ensure feasibility of architecture platform solutions.
• Tailor communication and convey complex ideas in a concise manner to a diverse set of audiences and venues.
• Accelerate delivery by forming a network of positive relationships with vendors, and other influencers within the enterprise and beyond.
• Mentor architects, engineers, and senior leadership alike. Inspire and lead senior technical individual contributors.
• Stay informed on initiatives across the industry and the enterprise to help product owners and IT leadership effectively prioritize the platform vision.

Personality and Attributes

• Strategic
• Leading with Influence
• Collaboration (Relating)
• Customer First
• Execution
• Innovation (Perspective)
• Personal Mastery (Learning)