Solutions Architect - Johannesburg at NTT Ltd.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.
• Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.
• Supports a change programme or project through the preparation of technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
• Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies.
• Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.
• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements, including proof of concept (POC).
• Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.
• Contribute to the development of new go to market services and contributes knowledge on relevant verticals.
• Operate across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.

Knowledge, skills and attributes

• Solid knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OS’s and infrastructure designs
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Knowledgeable on how specific infrastructures and application software are deployed in line with relevant methodologies and frameworks
• Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Qualification in Information Technology or Information Systems
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.)
• SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous

Experience required:

• Solid professional technical, IT or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably multi- national) technology services environment on the following areas: Software Development, Application Support and Infrastructure Support
• Some Project or Program Management experience would be preferred but not essential
• Proven client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management
• Proven experience in integrating the solution for the particular project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns and best practices
• Experience working in an agile development environment