New Jobs at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide specialist advice & support in the development & implementation of solution architect applications addressing problems on systems integration, compatability and multi platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for assisting in the establishment of an IT Architecture practice, and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology.
• Manages activities that take place during solution ideation, solution design, and solution implementation.
• Reviews business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solution, recommending potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or prototype development), selecting the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap for the selected solution.
• Communicates the architecture to the stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates with existing domain architects in the formalization and adoption of IT standards and procedures.
• Champions a structured approach to business application solutions.

Additional Key Responsibilities

• Directly assists in the development of a solutions architecture program including departmental roadmaps and project portfolios for IT systems architecture.
• Assures solutions not only are a fit for the specific purpose but also closely align with the standards guidelines of technology solutions.
• Influences changes to standards when necessary.
• Assists domain architecture team on solutions management and timing of financial spend for application solutions.
• Supports the architectural aspects of all application projects in peer IT portfolios.
• Directs the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership.
• Develops and executes solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work.
• Provides analysis of security protection technologies as necessary.

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar environment

Additional Minimum Experience

• Demonstrated ability to communicate the complexities of technical programs.
• Proficiency with information technologies in a secure network environment.
• Expertise with personal computers in a secure network environment and Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and SharePoint) or similar software.
• Experience in Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Salesforce) - Similar platforms.
• Tracking the progress of projects.
• Documenting procedures, architecture principles, and patterns.
• Evaluating and implementing new technologies.
• Collaborating with other teams to improve business processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Information Technology and Computer Sciences

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Purpose

• As an IT: Operations Manager your main role is to for manage the delivery of ongoing service improvement activities within the 24x7 IT Operations and identifies opportunities to improve the performance of services to deliver enhanced value to the business.
• This is an on-site position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and monitor the team to execute a high standard of service and process adherence to ensure superior service delivery and quality of work.
• Use practical knowledge and theoretical guidelines, to diagnose area of specialisation problems and generate workable solutions.
• Engages with the different IT disciplines to improve service delivery and maintains close relationships with Business and Technology Teams.
• Provide specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.
• Appreciates and  understands the technical strengths and weaknesses of the team to delegate work appropriately to the right people.
• Comply to risk and governance policies, implement and provide subject matter input to the development of related processes, applicable to the area of specialisation.

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 1 -2 years at a specialist level
• 3 -5 years’ experience within a mainframe and control-M environment.
• 3 – 5 years of management experience.
• Basic understanding of Linux , Solaris , oracle and sql.
• SharePoint 365 knowledge , editing sites and working with SharePoint lists , deriving reports from SharePoint.
• Managing staff and KPI management which includes training programme and long term goals for the team.
• Understanding of Monitoring dashboards, troubleshooting alerts. Added advantage would be tools like Check_MK and Dynatrace
• Good understanding of change management processes following the ITIL framework and SAFe and agility methodology and concepts.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas in Business, Commerce, Information Technology and Management Studies.
• Skilled in IT Operations
• Skilled in Agile methodology
• SAFe Agilist (Leading SAFe), AWS/ MS Azure Foundation
• Professional Cloud Service Manager Certification
• ITIL framework