Solutions Architect at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• This Solutions Architect will help our transitioning into an agile, containerized, microservices based platform from our legacy of waterfall-based, monolithic systems.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Oversees the solutioning of new and existing applications systems. 
• Assesses functional and non-functional requirements of change backlogs and proposals to elicit architectural impacts. 
• Advises development teams on system technical design as a subject matter expert, providing solutions that reinforce the enterprise architectural strategy.
• Weighs the overall priority ranking of each of the possible system qualities (cost, reusability, robustness, etc.) as to enforce a “balance of concerns”. 
• Performs analytical tasks, data extracts, research, etc., as required, to inform decision processes.
• Participates in internal forums such as Architectural Review Board and lead work streams to improve methodology, internal processes, standards and guidelines.
• Conducts training and informal coaching with technical team.
• Assists Technical Managers during hiring and performance reviews by providing input on engineering competencies.
• Closely interacts with and guides many functions of Business Analysis and Systems Design. 
• Collaborates in R&D to seek solutions to new and evolving customer requirements.
• Provides high-level architectural guidance to new and existing systems.
• Partners with Enterprise Architects to ensure execution of architectural strategy.
• Partners with Systems Architects to keep abreast of maturing technical tools and practices.

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Strong “soft skills”.
• Cloud computing experience (infrastructure, deployment, storage, platforms, and data experience preferred)
• Web-scale engineering and architecture experience (Microservices architecture experience preferred).
• “Full stack” development knowledge (Java, JavaScript, and Oracle RDBMS preferred)
• Demonstrated modelling capabilities (UML modelling experience preferred).
• Business process improvement (Lean experience preferred)
• Agile software development
• Business and technical writing skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Consulting Abilities
• Demonstrated project management abilities.

Education and Experience

Education:

• BSc in Computer Science or a related field
• Preferred: Architecturally certified (TOGAF/Prince Certified or Equivalent)

Experience:

• 5 to 7 years’ experience and demonstrated career growth on software development in corporate environments, of which at least two years in team leadership capacity
• Data modelling experience
• Process modelling experience
• TOGAF experience
• Netflix OSS experience
• Docker experience
• AWS/Azure experience
• WSO2 experience