The Solutions Architect will be responsible for architecting solutions that take advantage of our technologies and enabling the team to deploy new software in a quick, reliable and scalable way. Your primary responsibility will be to drive innovation within the company by developing cutting-edge technology solutions. You'll work closely with other developers and DevOps Engineers on complex projects such as microservices or scaling architecture using Elasticsearch, JavaScript etc.
Requirements
- Understand the application portfolio landscapes of the Western Cape Government (WCG)
- Work closely with the Development and Enterprise Architect teams for teams’ solution design architecture and application alignment
- Provide solutions architecture guidance to various application development teams
- Conducting interviews with key-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 assessment 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 detailed functional design document to match customer requirements
- Produce process flow analysis and process redesign documents
- Share the best practices and be consultative to teams and clients
Qualifications
Tertiary qualification in Computer Science and / or Software Engineering and / or Information Systems and / or Information Technology and / related technical certification in an IT fieldMinimum of 7 years’ experience with Microsoft and / or Oracle and / AWS as a Solution architectExperience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Experience with enterprise integration tools and extract, transformation, and load (ETL) toolsStrong presentation and communication skillsGood knowledge of Cloud Solutions, services, cloud developmentAbility to understand the business ability and convert them into Solution DesignsKnowledge of web-based system architecture, and enterprise application architecture as well as experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraintsShould have participated in, and familiar with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Agile project management methodologiesProven Solutions consulting experience in large enterprisesApplications to be submitted with the following :
Certified copies of qualifications and certifications must be providedCv's should not be longer than 3 pages