Solutions Architect

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

Applications to be submitted with the following :