Cloud Solutions Architect - Westlake, South Africa - Achievement Awards Group (Pty) Ltd.

Achievement Awards Group (Pty) Ltd.

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Westlake, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

The Solution Architect is responsible for evaluating business requirements and determining how information technology can be used to support the achievement of specific business objectives.

This position provides expertise in defining sound, strategic technical solutions for complex software solutions. The solutions architect is a professional with expertise in cloud-based technology. They design, manage, develop and implement cloud system structures for the organisation. They also help transfer information and programs to new cloud systems and troubleshoot network issues.

This position will be accountable for:

Translating technical project details into a language that all stakeholders can understand
Analysing project constraints and making technological decisions that will reconcile restrictions with project goals
Determining which technology stack will best fit the product by conducting technology assessments and comparisons
Analysing all nonfunctional requirements (e.g., security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, reliability, etc) to ensure that product engineering can be met
Creating a general blueprint and solution prototype that depicts the future architecture of the product based on expectations and the existing environment
Estimating the budget to achieve the technical vision of the product and presenting this to the relevant stakeholders
Providing oversight and controlling the solution development
Providing support to project management activities to ensure that resources, risk recognition and planning remain aligned with solution goals
Coach and provide support to less experienced solution architects
Responsible for solution architectures to build and/or migrate EDA tools into public Cloud like AWS, Azure
Responsible for managing and providing operational support of multiple cloud environments
Architect, deploy and administer Linux virtual machines in a multitenant/vendor cloud environment
Develop a strategy to automate operational procedures for autoscaling and deployment, leveraging AWS and third party tools
Lead Cloud Strategy development defining business drivers, cloud adoption roadmap and business case
Assess clients' workloads and technology landscape and define strategy to transform to AWS
Prescribe the Architecture, tools, frameworks for accelerated cloud adoption.
Participate in and oversee the design of Cloud solutions, from conceptual, logical and physical design to meet client's business and technical requirements leveraging architecture patterns and following development processes.
Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation.
Creating user interactions on various websites and platforms, writing code optimised for mobile and develop databases and services for functionality.
Designing, building, testing and implementing software solutions
Writing clean, functional code on the front

- and back-end

Testing and fixing bugs or other coding issues
Designing, coding and testing programs and scripts against agreed specification
Conducting releases to test and production environment and implementing post release reviews.
Writing technical specifications, documenting code throughout the development process, including changes made and special instructions required for deployment.
Creating and maintaining technical documentation using defined technical documentation templates
Investigating, analysing and documenting reported defects and performing maintenance programming and correction of identified defects.
Transcribing data on to the change management system, ensuring accuracy and consistence of information.

Knowledge, skills and attributes:

Ability to drive solution architecture engagements at a detailed levels across a broad range of stakeholders
Comfortable working with clients and senior management
Ability to articulate complex technical issues into business focused terms and communicate to all stakeholders
Passionate about delivery and improving the user experience of the services supported
Solid interpersonal and influencing skills
Capable of dealing with ambiguity and uncertaintly
Solid understanding of technical elements, e.g., enterprise architecture, solution architecture, systems,network design, cloud based solutions
Good knowledge of IT frameworks, vocabulary and best practices
Good commercial acumen and understanding of financial management within IT
Awareness of relevant and appropriate development languages
Awareness of Agile project methodology
Ability to build cloud systems
Implement the design structure and scale elements for the cloud system
Design and suggest network systems that are efficient for the overall organisation

Education and training:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent
ITIL
Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, IASA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Open Group Certi