Solutions Architect

Reference: JHB000736-LG-1

An industry leading Bank has an exciting opportunity available for a Solutions Architect to join their dynamic team.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose Statement
As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for the success of a product, acting as the apex technical leader for your application. You will bring deep technical knowledge of at least one programming paradigm, preferably object-oriented or functional programming, and be comfortable working with languages like C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Additionally, you will have experience with both relational and non-relational databases, as well as AWS cloud skills. You will have the opportunity to learn and work with domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, and Kubernetes. You will be a problem solver at heart, with the ability to think critically and creatively to find innovative solutions.

Experience

• 10+ years' experience in IT Delivery, including a minimum of 2+ years' experience in architecture
• 4+ years' experience in solution design
• 4+ years' experience as a Solutions Architect
• Financial Services experience
• Experience must be in designing end-to-end and full stack
• End-to-end - able to design solution, which includes all components, ensuring that all end users are serviced correctly in production
• Full stack - able to design for each component within the solution addressing the functional (application), non-functional (platform) and infrastructure and cloud services

Qualifications

Minimum:

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology
• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Ideal:

• A relevant post graduate degree
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate and/or Professional Certification

Knowledge

Minimum:

• System architecture (technical design and implementation processes)
• Systems analysis and design
• Agile systems development processes (CI/CD standards and agile delivery methods)
• A solid understanding of modern software development environments
• Component-based and Service-oriented Architecture
• Designing and delivering resilient solutions
• Policies, standards, patterns, and best practices
• Financial Services solutions environment

Ideal:

• Solid understanding of Banking business model
• Business process modelling
• Business analysis
• Cloud architectures
• Big data
• DevOps development culture and principles
• Various development technologies (preferably Cobol, Java, .NET, JavaScript, and Python ecosystems)

Skills

• Communication Skills
• Attention to Detail
• Commercial Thinking Skills
• Facilitation Skills
• Business Process Modelling skills (IDEF-0, Financial Modelling, Enterprise Architect, BPMN, etc.)
• Negotiation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Analytical Skills

Should you not receive a response from us within one week of your application, your application has unfortunately not been successful.

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