Solutions Architect - Johannesburg, South Africa - Progressive Edge
Description
Solutions Architect
Jhb/Cape Town (Hybrid)
Solution architects provide high level system designs and oversight of lower-level technical decisions to ensure ongoing transformation of the company.
To do so they need to gather information, understand short and long-term implications, build a vision of target state and incremental roadmap to get there.
In this process architects often acts a "glue" connecting across different levels and organisations from developers to executives.Role Responsibilities:
Solution design
- Design and build consensus for high level solution approaches.
- Design lowerlevel integration mechanisms in critical areas.
- Review proposed technical decisions made by project delivery teams.
- Provide timely responses to relevant parts of RFIs/RFPs.
- Support DD requests within assigned region(s), providing answers for technical and delivery questions.
- Participate in MWS workshops to present the company technology and define all client/3rd party integrations.
- Assist in preparation of the business case by creating an Architecture Solution document for all new implementations.
- Review and approve PIA submissions to ensure projects are keeping their systems up to date and aligned with global architecture roadmap.
- Perform architecture reviews on upcoming Epics. Escalate to other SMEs as needed.
- Ensure major decisions are captured as ADRs and escalate decision to business owners where needed.
- Answer technical questions from the developers working on regional delivery projects. Serve as the escalation point for developers.
- Support adhoc requests from to discuss, agree, and understand client requests that impact technology and architecture.
- Coach project lead developers to ensure they understand the principles and bigger picture.
- Participate in defining global architecture roadmap that will achieve key organisational objectives.
- Assist with mergers and acquisition during due diligence, analysis and postacquisition integration of the new systems.
- Participate in creation and presentation of CTRC submissions.
- Define and enforce technology integration standards between internal products/services.
- Ensuring that proposed allocation of data and responsibility between products is sound (eg: avoid duplicated business functionality).
- Provide approvals and consultation for newly defined products/services (or products/services being extracted from the company).
- Delivery projects and new products follow companywide EA strategy.
- Sales support provided in a timely manner.
- Design decisions are making delivery as simple as possible with EA constraints.
- Escalations from projects are resolved quickly as to minimise impact to timelines.
- Stakeholders consulted regarding major changes.
Experience Required:
Mandatory
- Previous handson developer experience
- Participation in multiple complex deliveries from start to end
- Building relationships with both internal and external stakeholders of different levels
- Solid understanding of information security principles
- Understanding of company product capabilities and project lifecycle
- Knowledge of common protocols and integration methods
- TOGAF or similar certifications
- Experience with cloud technologies
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