Job Description

Our Client a Global tech firm is seeking a Solutions Architect to join their team in Cape town on a Contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.

The Solutions Architect will be responsible for architecting solutions that take advantage of our technologies and enabling the team to deploy new software in a quick, reliable and scalable way. Your primary responsibility will be to drive innovation within the company by developing cutting-edge technology solutions. You'll work closely with other developers and DevOps Engineers on complex projects such as microservices or scaling architecture using Elasticsearch, JavaScript etc.

Requirements * Understand the application portfolio landscapes

• Work closely with the Development and Enterprise Architect teams for teams solution design architecture and application alignment
• Provide solutions architecture guidance to various application development teams
• Conducting interviews with key-players within the various departments to further understand their business processes, needs and challenges
• Conducting feasibility studies
• Preparing business cases and conducting an initial risk assessment
• Conducting solution assessment and validation
• Conducting presentations of the deliverables for playback to the business
• Conducting playback sessions with the business to ensure that the information extracted from the business documents and through the interview process are correct
• Produce detailed functional design document to match customer requirements
• Produce process flow analysis and process redesign documents
• Share the best practices and be consultative to teams and clients

Qualifications * Tertiary qualification in Computer Science and /or Software Engineering and/or Information Systems and/or Information Technology and/related technical certification in an IT field

• Minimum of 7 years experience with Microsoft and/or Oracle and/AWS as a Solution architect
• Experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Experience with enterprise integration tools and extract, transformation, and load (ETL) tools
• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Good knowledge of Cloud Solutions, services, cloud development
• Ability to understand the business ability and convert them into Solution Designs
• Knowledge of web-based system architecture, and enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints
• Should have participated in, and familiar with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Agile project management methodologies
• Proven Solutions consulting experience in large enterprises

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