Application Architect - Midrand, South Africa - Moving Heads Personnel

Moving Heads Personnel

Verified Company

Midrand, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Applications Architect

Midrand

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.
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.
Work closely with project teams, vendors and thirdparty technical contacts regarding technical design, or resolving technical issues.
Accountable for composition of detailed technical specifications, unit testing, and support documentation.
Define, document and maintain Application Architecture standards.
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.
Provide accurate estimates of required effort for design and development.
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.
Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients.
Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback.

Finance

Contribute to the development of area specific budgets to minimise expenditure.
Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
Implement and provide input into governance processes, systems and legislation.
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.
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: