Solution Architect at Nedbank

Job Purpose

To provide overall application systems design and balance requirements against resource utilisation and architectural factors and in line with Nedbank business strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives

• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy

• Identify opportunities to improve or enhance processes by identifying and recommending improvements to tools; policies and procedures to add value to Nedbank.

• Deliver operational reports by complying to service level agreements

• Reduce risk by ensuring accuracy of information through compliance with risk and compliance requirementsManage production environment through application and checking of processes

• Control cost by managing time and resources

• Develop outputs according to provided specifications through interaction with analysts and designers

• Improve business knowledge through being mentored bybusiness and product specialists

• Develop training material for end users

• Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters; websites and attending sessions

• Understand and embrace the Nedbank Vision and Values by demonstrating the values through interaction with team and stakeholders

• Ensure that own contribution and participation contributes to the achievement of team goals

• Create and manage own career through guidance and support of management; department and colleagues

• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers

• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames

• Ensure knowledge management; continuity and team success through constructive participation in a diverse team and sharing knowledge with team

• Track progress against work plans by providing feedback on own delivery in project feedback sessions

• Utilize resources by complying to organisational and departmental standards and procedures

• Demonstrate understanding of policies; procedures and standards by completing relevant surveys

• Identify risks according to bank and departmental policies and take corrective action according to level of control

• Communicate dependencies to project team

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience in development and design (Application, Infrastructure, etc.).

• Bachelor’s Degree in either Information Systems, Informatics or Computer Science or Chemical Engineering (or equivalent work experience).

Essential Certifications

• Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group) – Advantageous.

• TOGAF Foundation Training. – Advantageous.

• TOGAF / Zachman Certification. – Advantageous.

Type of Exposure

• Achieved Management and Process Results

• Achieved transformation and innovation results

• Designed Workforce Planning Solutions

• Executed Workforce Planning Deliverables

• Improved transformation and culture

Minimum Experience Level

5-10 years’ experience with ETL and data design.

•  Programming experience with Web, Windows .NET framework, PowerShell, and C#, with at least 3 years as a senior software development engineer and/or technical lead with similar roles.

• Experience developing customer facing applications.

• Experience with ASP. Net Web API or ASP. Net MVC, JavaScript, JSON and REST, NoSQL databases.

Successful track record delivering high quality products on time while working in teams and following Agile methodologies.

Skills (Technologies, systems or software knowledge etc.):

• Ab Initio

• CDC DB2

• IDR

• Kafka

• Hadoop Stack

• Data Warehousing

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Administrative procedures and systems

• Banking knowledge

• Banking procedures

• Business principles

• Business terms and definitions

• Data analysis

• Governance, Risk and Controls

• Microsoft Office

• Relevant regulatory knowledge

• Relevant software and systems knowledge

• Business writing skills

• Microsoft Office Product

• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge

• Project Management

• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)

• Unified Modelling Language (UML)

• Rational design toolset application

• IT Architecture

Behavioural Competencies

• Continuous Learning

• Collaborating

• Customer Focus

• Initiating Action

• Work Standards

• Managing Work

• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills