One of our esteemed clients, being a payments clearing house and part of the National Payments System of South Africa, and being the trusted partner servicing the financial industry, including banking institutions, requires the exercise of unconditional honesty and transparency on the part of the employee in respect of his duties and obligations.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
The solution architect role is one of ensuring technical strategic enablement though effective solution design and planning. The architect is responsible for collating design considerations, crafting the required technical vision and solution for identified business strategic initiative or problem. The architect will be required to describe, design, and manage the required solution outcome building a bridge between the identified business need and the recommended technology solution. The architect is responsible for communicating and sharing the architectural solution vision ensuring delivered solution is fit for its intended purpose.
The solution architect should be a good visualizer being able to see the "big picture" yet able to abstract and model technical solutions as a set of interacting components and services within this enterprise context.
The architect needs to establish and understanding of the relevant business capabilities and though their technical experience and insight, establish the technology solution to support required business functional and non-functional requirements and business value.
The solution architect typically has a wide range of both technical domain knowledge complemented by business and implementation experience. The solution architect will be required leverage this experience to work and influence product and technical owners, peer architects, cloud and technical engineers and SMEs whilst evolving the solution architecture to meet the desired business outcome. The solution architect can fulfil numerous roles from legacy application or technical architects though to agile release train technical stream leads. The solution architect may also be required to manage and direct small technical teams to deliver on set technical outcomes or organisational KPIs.
The architect must be insightful, pragmatic, and can negotiate between various conflicting forces. The architect must be able to identify the wide range of solution stakeholders and have the ability to bridge the gap between the technical SMEs, business stakeholders and other communities.
The architect must also adhere to good practices ensuring outcomes are well documented and have followed the correct governance processes and controls identified to safeguard the organisation.
You will engage with the following stakeholders:
Internal and External
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