Job Description

ROLE DETAILS
Role overview
The Solution Architect primarily works with the product owner team by providing business process alignment and technical leadership to craft a solution that is fit for purpose from a business perspective.
Consequently they focus their attention on both smaller and large facet of the solution to make sure that it engineered and fit the operate model
- Focusses on the technical and business feasibility of a solution and ensure that it fits within well-established patterns and guidelines laid down by the enterprise architects and Lead solution architects.

- Takes responsibility for the quality, commercial compliance and technical integrity of the solution being delivered back into the business.

- Works actively with senior technology / platform systems analysts from across the operational space (both internal subject matter experts and those of the chosen suppliers).

- Work with other domain architects in the programme including cloud infrastructure, technology and domain specific architects.
Responsibilities
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Compliance

- Ensures delivery fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise / solution practice architects and is in compliance with the IT strategy.
- Oversees the implementation of new solutions to ensure they adhere to the signed off solution architecture designs.
Financial Control

- Understands the fiscal components of a solution to ensure it satisfies the commercial requirements of the business and is sustainable, adaptable and practical within the RUN model.
Personal Effectiveness

- Ability to operate in a dedicated agile environment and to use typical agile method tools

- Ability to explain the complex in laymans terms to bring technology to the masses

- Accepts and lives the company values

- Accountable for service delivery through own efforts

- Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
- Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality for periods of 3 months to 1 year.

- Plans workload vs work demand for a small team of solution architects. Strategy

- Models and defines the financial implications and considerations of potential solutions.

- Models, defines and collaborates around designs with business and enterprise stakeholders.

- Provides options and recommendations to business stakeholders to ensure that they can make the best business decisions based on the different solution alternatives and patterns.
Technical Consultation

- Analyses business processes to determine how IT investment could deliver value through improved cycle times, lower costs, improved quality.
- Builds the detailed transition plan for the more effective exploitation of IT investments.

- Defines a solution and ensure that it:
o Meets the business requirements
o Meets the non-functional requirements
o Fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise / solution practice architects
o Is in compliance with the IT strategy.
o Can be readily leveraged by other parts of the business

- Responds to stakeholder needs and influences the development of alternative solutions.
Requirements

- Matric

- BSC.

- IT Technical skills. (AWS, APIs, Serverless)

- Software modelling.

- Grasp of IT concepts, patterns, principles

- Policy Administration knowledge

- Cloud certification
Competencies

- Strategic

- Leading with Influence

- Collaboration (Relating)

- Customer First

- Execution

- Innovation (Perspective)

- Personal Mastery (Learning)

ROLE DETAILS
Role overview
The Solution Architect primarily works with the product owner team by providing business process alignment and technical leadership to craft a solution that is fit for purpose from a business perspective.
Consequently they focus their attention on both smaller and large facet of the solution to make sure that it engineered and fit the operate model
- Focusses on the technical and business feasibility of a solution and ensure that it fits within well-established patterns and guidelines laid down by the enterprise architects and Lead solution architects.

- Takes responsibility for the quality, commercial compliance and technical integrity of the solution being delivered back into the business.

- Works actively with senior technology / platform systems analysts from across the operational space (both internal subject matter experts and those of the chosen suppliers).

- Work with other domain architects in the programme including cloud infrastructure, technology and domain specific architects.
Responsibilities
and KRAxe2x80x99s
Compliance

- Ensures delivery fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise / solution practice architects and is in compliance with the IT strategy.
- Oversees the implementation of new solutions to ensure they adhere to the signed off solution architecture designs.
Financial Control

- Understands the fiscal components of a solution to ensure it satisfies the commercial requirements of the business and is sustainable, adaptable and practical within the RUN model.
Personal Effectiveness

- Ability to operate in a dedicated agile environment and to use typical agile method tools

- Ability to explain the complex in laymans terms to bring technology to the masses

- Accepts and lives the company values

- Accountable for service delivery through own efforts

- Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
- Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality for periods of 3 months to 1 year.

- Plans workload vs work demand for a small team of solution architects. Strategy

- Models and defines the financial implications and considerations of potential solutions.

- Models, defines and collaborates around designs with business and enterprise stakeholders.

- Provides options and recommendations to business stakeholders to ensure that they can make the best business decisions based on the different solution alternatives and patterns.
Technical Consultation

- Analyses business processes to determine how IT investment could deliver value through improved cycle times, lower costs, improved quality.
- Builds the detailed transition plan for the more effective exploitation of IT investments.

- Defines a solution and ensure that it:
o Meets the business requirements
o Meets the non-functional requirements
o Fits within the guidelines laid down by the enterprise / solution practice architects
o Is in compliance with the IT strategy.
o Can be readily leveraged by other parts of the business

- Responds to stakeholder needs and influences the development of alternative solutions.
Requirements

- Matric

- BSC.

- IT Technical skills. (AWS, APIs, Serverless)

- Software modelling.

- Grasp of IT concepts, patterns, principles

- Policy Administration knowledge

- Cloud certification
Competencies

- Strategic

- Leading with Influence

- Collaboration (Relating)

- Customer First

- Execution

- Innovation (Perspective)

- Personal Mastery (Learning)

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