Solutions Architect at FNB South Africa

Overview of the role and requirements:

• We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Solution Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in designing and implementing workflow solutions that enhance business processes and drive efficiency.
• As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for leading the architecture and design of workflow capabilities across various platforms and ensuring alignment with business objectives.

You will be responsible for:

• Design and develop workflow solutions that meet business requirements and enhance operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements.
• Lead the architecture and design of workflow capabilities, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to optimize workflow capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams internally and external teams looking to utilise the capabilities.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Conduct regular reviews and assessments of existing workflow systems to identify areas for improvement and opportunities for enhancements.
• Assess and understand organisational business, technical and data landscape to identify dependencies when designing solutions.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in workflow management.
• Devise and implement IT innovations or methodologies that achieve efficiencies and reduce cost based on time, risk, and process.
• Reduce cost by identifying inappropriate technologies for the organization.
• Provide guidance in architecting solutions that yield the highest return on investments.
• Deliver a service which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations, and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
• Maintain close working relationships with key stakeholders ensuring appropriate solutions are developed that incorporate both IT and Data.
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SMEs, project managers, and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements.
• Collaborate with and transfer knowledge with internal and external teams.
• Provide functional expertise to troubleshoot highly complex problems, or present/market new technology or solutions for business.
• Establish architectural standards and frameworks and assess functional and process risks on projects by collaborating with other architects to translate the customer’s requirements.
• Identify, justify, and design a specific solution that meets business requirements.
• Provide guidance to operations teams and other architects on the design, development, and testing of a new solution, and work with assigned project teams to ensure a smooth implementation of changes to existing systems.
• Design solutions that include data for reporting, monitoring and analytics.
• Design solutions that incorporate the appropriate data to support unit testing from end to end to ensure testing yields an acceptable level of performance for the changes being delivered and the application is not adversely affected.
• Analyse, estimate, and execute all approved development and configuration items through delivery of the best technical solutions to deliver the required functionality.
• Provide input and assist business to achieve efficiencies through optimised processes.
• Assess process and business risks relating to systems to ensure minimal risk to the organization.
• Comply, understand, and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements for IT Solutions.
• Analyse and/or identify problems/requirements to determine impact, patterns, and trends, best fit alternatives, and best practice solutions.
• Determine the estimated resources and timelines required to deliver the required functionality.
• Review proposed solutions and provide quality assurance on workflow solutions. Provide expertise and guidance on the best method to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness.
• Keep up to date with own area of expertise to develop and maintain own professional knowledge base in order to provide effective support and advice.
• Provide technical assistance to other team members from centre of excellence, IT and Data.

​Qualifications:

• Over 5 years of experience in an architecture role.
• A BSc IT or BCom in Information Technology qualification is preferred.
• TOGAF would be beneficial.
• Strong understanding of workflow management systems and tools (e.g., BPMN, Camunda, Apache, JAVA).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and microservices architecture.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices in workflow management.
• Certification in relevant technologies or methodologies is a plus.
• Experience with big data and AI is beneficial.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with a dynamic and innovative team.
• Professional development and growth opportunities.
• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• Challenging work.
• Opportunities to innovate.

End Date: September 13, 2025