Senior Solution Architect at Old Mutual South Africa

Role overview

The Senior Solution Architect primarily works with the business domain experts and business leadership to craft a solution that is fit for purpose from a business perspective.

• The Solution primarily is focussed on Transactional, N-tier architecture design. Consequently they focus their attention on a smaller facet of service (the solution package) to make sure that it operates effectively as part of the whole as well as independently as a stand-alone solution.
• Focusses on the technical and business feasibility of a solution and ensure that it fits within well-established patterns and guidelines laid down by the enterprise architects and solution practice architects.
• Takes responsibility for the quality, commercial compliance and technical integrity of the solution being delivered back into the business.
• Works actively with senior technology/platform systems analysts from across the operational space (both internal subject matter experts and those of the chosen suppliers).
• Could have a small team of solution architects under his/her guidance.

Role Description / Key Performance Areas

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 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.

Qualifications Required

• Matric
• BSC / B.Comm Info systems / B.Compt
• IT Technical skills. (Java, Java Script)

Experience required

• Software design modelling.
• Business process modelling
• IT Consulting
• Policy Administration knowledge
• AWS Cloud certification,
• 2 yrs + Development experience
• 2 yrs + Working experience in Insurance or Banks or Software development houses
• Agile development experience

Attributes / Competencies

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