Solutions Architect at Salt South Africa

Solution Architect establishes and maintains value-stream aligned solution architect and business analysis capabilities, aligned to appropriate enterprise standards, best practices and methodologies.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for establishing value-stream and product aligned solution architecture including
• business process management to support the rapid design, delivery, and improvement of digital
• products for value streams
• Embed a capability where products are designed and architected with the user experience at its
• heart – driven from a customer journey and service perspective for value stream
• Ensure solutions are designed in line with the Global OpCo Enterprise Architecture roadmaps,
• aligned to appropriate best practices, standards and methodologies for value stream
• Support Product Management teams to identify the value of products being delivered in the
• context of the product roadmaps for value streams
• Act as the escalation route for technical delivery issues, and support technical conversations
• with senior business stakeholders in value stream
• Implement, maintain & monitor standards, controls, processes and solutions to minimise
• business and IT risk, ensuring compliance with all Legal and Regulatory requirements and
• standards for value stream

Work Experience Required

• Proven leadership capability
• Strong understanding of the value-streams and digital products
• Thorough working knowledge of solution design, architecture industry standards, and business analysis
• Strong familiarity with quality management concepts and their application
• Customer-centricity
• Ability to influence stakeholders on the choices around process, product and solution design

Skills and Core Competencies

• Relentless focus on process optimisation by leveraging multiple tools, including: technology,
• lean, automation, sourcing, etc.
• Continually provide professional challenge to the status quo
• Focused on disruption to instigate innovation in products and services
• Evangelist for ideation, innovation, experimentation, and rapid prototyping of digital solutions
• Actively promotes new ways of working that drive agility, speed, and design-thinking
• A champion for cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teaming
• Continually apply a digital lens to business and value-stream strategies and requirements
• Relentless focus on process optimisation by leveraging multiple tools, including: technology, lean, automation, sourcing, etc.