Senior Solutions Architect at Coronation Fund Managers

Job Description    
A cloud technical lead who is able to confidently move from architectural definition and technical guidance to hands-on implementation and troubleshooting.
Duties and Responsibilities    

•  Explore and grow new technology in support of future organisational direction.
•  Champion the adoption of industry best practices to push development standards.
•  Provide architecture artefacts in accordance with business and project requirements.
•  Identify cross functional opportunities, partner with your peers in the organisation and connect business objectives with technical vision.
•  Leading the team to make the correct compromises between short-term business opportunity and long-term technical vision.

 Drive innovation

•  Participate in the evolution and direction of the company’s cloud strategy.
•  Design, implement and deploy dynamically scalable, and highly available systems on leading cloud providers.
•  Conceptualize on-premise, cloud components, security, networking and monitoring solutions.
•  Aid in the design and planning to migrate existing complex on-premises applications to cloud platforms.

 Identify risk items.

•  Provide thought leadership and advisory services while working in an agile development environment including cloud infrastructure, DataOps, DevOps and MLOps concepts.

Ideal Experience    

•  Background in designing cloud solutions and services
•  Experience in interfacing with multi-faceted teams, internally and externally (Infrastructure, Application development, Analysts)
•  Experience in improving performance and reliability of complex systems
•  Experience in designing for middleware integration and exposure to ESBs and API management
•  Understanding of security by design and principles for general security of applications, integration, networking and storage

Ideal Qualifications    

•  BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
•  Microsoft-certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
•  Microsoft-certified Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
•  Certified SOA Architect
•  Track record in building and running large scale systems professionally for 10+ years
•  Experience in communicating with and presenting to Senior stakeholders
•  A minimum of 5+ years of experience in an architect role, leading design of complex systems
•  Minimum of 5 years’ experience with technology development and delivery, with particular focus on Azure platform services, such as: ADF, Synapse, Databricks, Compute, containers, integration, logic apps, storage, web and DevOps
•  Possess a deep understanding of programming fundamentals, design patterns, building for scalability, performance, high-availability, clustering and security
•  Proficient in API design using REST, SOAP
•  Proficient in UML, BPM, and the use of Architecture Design tools e.g., Sparx or similar experience using tools such as Lucid or Visio
• Most Important Attribute    
•  A strong communicator who is able to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audiences, including executives
• Systems Knowledge    
•  Microsoft .NET Stack
•  Microsoft Azure
•  Other cloud platforms and services