Solutions Architect - Cape Town, South Africa - DLK Group (PTY) Ltd

Description

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· Understand the Application portfolio landscape of the Western Cape Government (WCG)

· Work closely with Development and Enterprise Architecture teams for solution design, architecture, and application alignment.

· Provide solution architecture guidance to various application development teams.

· Conducting interviews with key role-players within the various departments to further understand their business processes, needs, and challenges.

· Conducting feasibility studies.

· Preparing business cases and conducting an initial risk assessment.

· Conducting solution assessments and validation.

· Conducting presentations of the deliverables for playback to the Business.

· Conducting playback sessions with the Business to ensure that the information extracted from the business documents and through the interview process are correct.

· Produce a detailed functional design document to match customer requirements.

· Produce process flow analysis and process redesign documents.

· Share best practices and be consultative to teams and clients.

· Collaborate with Technical Architects / Technology Managers and Application development Managers to produce a technical specification for custom development and systems integration requirements.

· Provide current best practices and 3rd Party solution alternatives as part of the functional design document in alignment with WCG standards and application portfolio roadmaps.

· Participate and lead, when needed, project meetings with the customer.

· Participate in internal projects as required.

· Experience with enterprise integration tools and extract, transformation, and load (ETL) tools.

· Strong presentation and communication skills.

· Good Knowledge of Cloud Solutions, Services, Cloud development.

· Ability to understand business requirements and convert them into solution designs.

· Knowledge of web-based systems architecture, service-based architecture, enterprise application architecture, mobile application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints.

· Must demonstrate good judgment and pragmatic approach to delivering a solution that optimizes architecture activities across company needs, business constraints and technological realities.

· Should have participated in and be familiar with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Agile project management methodologies.

· Proven Solutions consulting experience in large enterprises.

Requirements

Requirements

· Tertiary qualification in Computer Science and/or Software Engineering and/or Information Systems and/or Information Technology and/or related.

· Minimum of 7 years' experience with Microsoft and/or Oracle and/or AWS as a solutions architect.

· Experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) &

· Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software