Senior Solutions Architect at MultiChoice

Key Performance Objectives Tasks

Solutions Architecture

• Leads the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external, and internal customers.
• Takes full responsibility for the balance between functional, service quality and systems management requirements within a significant area of the organisation.
• Establishes policy and strategy for the selection of systems architecture components, and coordinates design activities, promoting the discipline to ensure consistency.
• Ensures that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to.
• Within a business change programme, manages the target design, policies and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture and ensure consistency of design across projects within the programme.
• Create high-level impact assessments for backlog items
• Identifies the communications needs of each stakeholder group in conjunction with business owners and subject matter experts.
• Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific tasks.
• Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
• Engages with other Architects across the Multichoice Group to realise solutions spanning multiple organization units.
• Engage with third parties, both local and international, to procure, understand, and guide the implementation of said third party technologies.
• Build and maintain relations with internal and third parties.
• Assists local or team-based standards for programming tools and techniques, including security guidelines, and the selection of appropriate development methods.
• Advises on application of standards and methods and ensures compliance.
• Takes technical responsibility for all stages and/or iterations in a software development project, providing method specific technical advice and guidance to project stakeholders.
• Assigns work packages, monitors performance and manages change control dynamically, to optimise productivity.
• Provides advice, guidance and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required.
• Strategically run POCs to assess various technologies and patterns for implementation or to write a reference implementation for development teams.
• Provide guidance to the delivery team on solutions.
• Provide guidance to the Product team and the wider organization on strategic decisions.

Qualifications Essentials

• Diploma in IT or Computer Science
• Certification in Cloud Application Design and Development (advantageous)
• TOGAF (optional)

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Solution Architecture or 10+ years in software development
• Experience and understanding of architectural styles like microservices and monoliths
• Experience in various architectural patterns (example Event Driven Architectures)
• Documentation tools like Confluence, Draw.io, EA Sparx, Visio, Yed or similar
• Experience with designing or building highly available and scalable systems
• Proficient understanding of Cloud services (AWS advantageous)
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on Cloud platforms (advantageous)
• Exceptional knowledge of Webservice, Java, Nest JS, REST, AWS, C# .Net (advantageous)
• CI/CD knowledge
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, SCRUM experience would be advantageous
• RDBMS experience
• Experience working with NoSQL databases
• Experience in distributed caching technologies
• Exposure to full life cycle systems development
• Solid understanding of Industry recommended Software Engineering Principles
• Solid development background (advantageous)
• Competent development in Java, Python, Node.js (advantageous)
• Willing to continuously keep development skills sharp (advantageous)