Solutions Architect -Durban at Tych Business Solutions

REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems
• 5 or more years’ experience in IT solutions development and 3-5 years experience in solutions architecture
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, analysis and design, system architecture design, inquisitive, methodical, analytical, critical thinking
• Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models
• Thorough understanding of EComm business domain; retail understanding advantageous

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Solution Design

• Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services
• Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth
• Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions
• Understanding non-functional requirements of a solution and mitigating risk by complying with governance and legislative requirements

Architecture Design

• Participate in selecting the most appropriate technology (platform, tech-stack, framework) for a solution, as well as balancing architectural guidelines of the corporate environment
• Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy
• Keep abreast of the latest changes & trends in IT architecture to provide insights and recommendations to the business in regards to optimisation, improvements or adoption of new tools and technologies

Business Domain

• Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment
• Contribute technical thought leadership to influence discussions and decision-making within the group

Team development

• Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers to become Solution Architects