Senior Applications Architect - Johannesburg, South Africa - The Recruiters

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Johannesburg, South Africa

2 weeks ago

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Senior Applications Architect - Centurion - Commensurate with experience:


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Description:


  • Our client a leader in insurance is looking for an experienced Applications Architect.
  • Responsibilities and work outputs
  • Internal Process
  • Define the required technology to support the business\\\\\'s agreed IT Strategy, Philosophy and Enterprise Architecture.
  • Proactively mentor peers regarding system knowledge and development technologies and processes, to ensure knowledge transfer and the maintenance of standards.
  • Monitor system performance, relevance and usage and define and maintain key metrics to ensure quality and performance of systems and delivery.
  • Work within the Enterprise Architecture to integrate and propose viable solutions to business.
  • Perform code reviews to ensure compliance with coding standards and best practices.
  • Accountable for technical design and detailed technical specifications, as well as unit testing and support documentation within the relevant business area.
  • Work closely with project teams, vendors and thirdparty technical contacts regarding technical design, or resolving technical issues, to deliver on the Application Architecture.
  • Accountable for composition of detailed technical specifications, unit testing, and support documentation.
  • Define, document and maintain Application Architecture standards within the relevant business area.
  • Collaborate with functional and technical leads from various teams to ensure an integrated and aligned solution and technology approach.
  • Provide process improvement recommendations to the software design/development team, to achieve best practices and high performance.
  • Provide accurate estimates of required effort for design and development, to assist in capacity management.
  • Accountable for appropriate cloud enablement and migration.
  • Identify and investigate appropriate SaaS, IaaS and PaaS applicable to the line of business systems.
  • Client
  • Provide authoritative, expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders.
  • Contribute to the process of negotiating objective and realistic service level agreements, monitor appropriateness and recommend adjustments.
  • Define service practices which builds rewarding relationships, encourages innovation and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
  • Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure that client expectations are managed.
  • Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients within area of responsibility.
  • Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.
  • People
  • Build relationships through providing specialist knowhow and leadership to others, expressing positive expectations.
  • Positively influence and manage change and offer specialist support where required.
  • Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas and involvement of colleagues and staff.
  • Participate and contribute to a culture of workcentric thinking, productivity, service delivery and quality management.
  • Take ownership for driving career development.
  • Finance
  • Contribute to the development of areaspecific budgets to minimise expenditure, in alignment with operational plans.
  • Identify solutions to enhance costeffectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
  • Implement and provide input into governance processes, systems and legislation within the area of specialisation.
  • Escalate unresolved policy and governance compliance issues via appropriate channels for investigation and resolution purposes.
  • Provide input into the risk identification processes development and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum

Category:


  • IT

General Requirements:


  • Providing Insights
  • Making Decisions
  • Developing Expertise
  • Exploring Possibilities
  • Skills required
  • Communications skills
  • Problemsolving skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Planning and organising skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Critical thinking
  • Experience and Qualifications
  • Relevant Computer Science qualification (essential)
  • 810 years' experience in software development or experience in IT Architecture (essential)
  • 57 years\\\\\' experience in development management / solutions management or team lead role (essential)
  • Exposure to Agile methodology (essential)
  • Experience in the financial services industry (desirable)
  • Required knowledge and experience on the following platforms:
  • Linux
  • AIX
  • Oracle Database and forms
  • IBM WebSphere and Liberty
  • AWS Compute and Database, but not limited to.
  • Required experience on the following languages:
  • Java EE
  • PL/SQL
  • Python
  • Advantageous:
  • Oracle cloud
    Location:
  • Johannesburg
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