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  • Posted: Mar 31, 2020
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), a division of FirstRand Bank Limited, is a leading African corporate and investment bank and part of one of the largest financial services groups in Africa. We offer our clients innovative, value-added advisory, funding, trading, corporate banking and principal investing solutions. As the corporate and investment banking arm of Firs...
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    Senior Solutions Architect

    Purpose:

    • To create and maintain architecture solutions to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs

     

    Responsibilities: 

    • Macro Environment
    • Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities and trends that would add value to the required architectural work
    • Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business
    • Prepare and share recommendations for process and systems improvements in relevant area of accountability. This includes the requirement to decommission legacy technologies
    • Actively participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment (current and planned)
    • Business Alignment
    • Partner with BT and Business stakeholders to create integrated roadmaps to enable business requirements delivery
    • Enterprise architecture design
    • Partner with Company and other BU architects to contribute to the creation and review of an architecture capability strategy which meets the strategic requirements of the business.
    • Estimate potential changes to business requirements and processes, due to changes/ improvements made in information systems, data management practices, information management procedures, and/ employed software/hardware

     

    Solution design

    • Use appropriate tools and methods to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business / functional areas to improve the efficiency of system and business performance
    • Produce systems and component specifications and translate these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products in support of business or systems changes. This includes the alignment of required documentation
    • Provide learning and make suggestions on technical aspects of system development and integration

     

    Architecture governance

    • Monitor adherence to processes which support the prescribed architectural frameworks and ensure delivery teams align to the required standards and methodologies
    • Recommend appropriate interventions in own area of ways to improve architectural compliance. This includes BU/FA representation at relevant forums e.g. Architecture Board, Cloud Steerco

     

     Qualifications & Experience:

    • Relevant Degree
    • Relevant experience in a similar environment
    • Data, security, technical and application architecture best practice
    • Enterprise architecture frameworks e.g. Togaf
    • Corporate Investment Banking domain
    • Industry standards and benchmarks
    • Problem analysis, alternatives testing and framing and solution design implementation
    • Crafting sustainable and dynamic solutions
    • Analysis and Attention to Detail
    • Big Picture Thinking
    • Drive and Results Orientation
    • Problem Solving
    • Customer Service Orientation

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Rand Merchant Bank on www.linkedin.com to apply

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