Senior Solution Architect at GoldenRule Technology (Pty) Ltd

The Role

We have an opportunity for a Senior Solutions Architect in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

The Solution Architect primarily works with the product owner team by providing business process alignment and technical leadership to craft a solution that is fit for purpose from a business perspective. Consequently, they focus their attention on both smaller and large facet of the solution to make sure that it engineered and fit the operate model.

Skills And Experience

• Matric
• IT Technical skills. (AWS, APIs, Serverless)
• Software modelling
• Grasp of IT concepts, patterns, principles
• Policy Administration knowledge
• Cloud certification

Key Accountabilities

Compliance

• Ensures delivery fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise / solution practice architects and is in compliance with the IT strategy.
• Oversees the implementation of new solutions to ensure they adhere to the signed off solution architecture designs.

Financial Control

• Understands the fiscal components of a solution to ensure it satisfies the commercial requirements of the business and is sustainable, adaptable and practical within the RUN model.

Personal Effectiveness

• Ability to operate in a dedicated agile environment and to use typical agile method tools.
• Ability to explain the complex in laymans terms to bring technology to the masses.
• Accepts and lives the company values.
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality for periods of 3 months to 1 year.
• Plans workload vs work demand for a small team of solution architects.

Strategy

• Models and defines the financial implications and considerations of potential solutions.
• Models, defines and collaborates around designs with business and enterprise stakeholders.
• Provides options and recommendations to business stakeholders to ensure that they can make the best business decisions based on the different solution alternatives and patterns.

Technical Consultation

• Analyses business processes to determine how IT investment could deliver value through improved cycle times, lower costs, improved quality.
• Builds the detailed transition plan for the more effective exploitation of IT investments.

Defines a solution and ensure that it:

• Meets the business requirements.Meets the non-functional requirements.
• Fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise / solution practice architects
• Is in compliance with the IT strategy.
• Can be readily leveraged by other parts of the business.
• Responds to stakeholder needs and influences the development of alternative solutions.

Personality and Attributes

• Strategic
• Change as a Way of Executing
• Leading with influence
• Collaboration (Diversity & Inclusion)
• Agile Innovation
• Customer First, Personal Mastery (Lifelong Learning)