Solutions Architect - Johannesburg, South Africa - Open Source (Pty) Ltd

Open Source (Pty) Ltd

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

As a Solutions Architect, you'll work closely with the senior management team to define and develop new product offerings. You will be responsible for ensuring that the right technical resources are available to meet our business needs. You will also help shape and maintain our internal processes so that we can best serve our customers.

In this role, you'll be tasked with liaising with architects on matters such as building plans or design changes within a set timeframe.

Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.

Identifies and evaluates alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.

Produces specifications of cloud-based or on-premises components, tiers and interfaces, for translation into detailed designs using selected services and products.

Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.

Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares knowledge and insights with others.

Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.

Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the architecture and to handle both functional and non-functional requirements, including proof of concept (POC).

Reviews, verifies and improves own designs against specifications.

Contribute to the development of new go to market services and contributes knowledge on relevant verticals.

Operate across both the technical levels within the enterprise architecture and the value chain in order to develop holistic and integrated solutions.

Solid knowledge of multi-vendor service integrations and cross-functional software, OSs and infrastructure designs

Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures

Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Information Systems required Qualification in Information Technology or Information Systems

Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.)

SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous

Solid professional technical, IT or Operations experience within a large scale (preferably multi
- national) technology services environment on the following areas: Software Development, Application Support and Infrastructure Support

Some Project or Program Management experience would be preferred but not essential

Proven client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management

Proven experience in integrating the solution for the particular project with the business domain, enterprise concerns, industry standards, established patterns and best practices

Experience working in an agile development environment