Solutions Architect (Menlyn) at Assupol

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Solutions Architecture
• Develop the solution architectures for the different projects
• Combine various domain (business, data, application and technology) architectural as-is and to-be models, with roadmaps to create an overall solution architecture and roadmap with the supporting transition architectures
• Accountable for the end to end delivery of the solution to the business
• Alignment between the EA and the SA to manage project risk and compliance
• Drive optimization of legacy applicationsfor increased efficiency and reduced costs
• Reduce IT environment complexity and cost through consolidation and rationalization
• Consider re-using of existing asset and cost saving in all roadmaps and designs (Driving cost down) to support the IT Departmental objectives
• Drive digitization and modernization by leveraging new technologies and architectures
• Responsible for IT Governance decisions
• Member of the IT Governance Committees 
• Make joint decisions based on the IT needs of the organisation 
• Responsible for development for complex components in IT Solutions 

Requirements

Formal Qualifications

• B Eng Software Engineer / BSc Computer Science / Relevant IT Degree
• TOGAF Certification (advantage)
• Microsoft AZURE Architect Technologies Certification (advantage) 

Experience

• 4 years’ experience in Cloud architecture
• 5 years’ experience in IT application architecture
• 4 years’ experience in project management
• 5-8 years’ experience in the following:
• application design
• data design
• system integration
• ICT industry standards
• services design
• solutions modelling
• application development
• 8 years’ experience in long term insurance industry