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Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Mindworx ConsultingJohannesburg, South Africa
25 days ago
Job description

Key Outcomes

  • Approved architecture designs that meet business objectives, non-functional requirements (NFRs), and total cost of ownership targets.
  • Integration patterns and data flows that are reliable, observable, secure, and scalable.
  • Artefacts and decisions recorded in recognised architecture repositories and decision registers.
  • Reduced deviations from standards, increased pattern reuse, and faster time-to-approval.

Core Responsibilities

Application Architecture

  • Translate business goals into target application architectures, selecting appropriate paradigms and runway for incremental delivery.
  • Define NFRs and derive testable acceptance criteria.
  • Map bounded contexts, component interfaces, deployment topologies, and operational runbooks for Day-2 operations.

    • 2) Integration Architecture

  • Define integration strategies and select patterns appropriate to latency, throughput, and reliability needs.
  • Specify API standards, versioning, security, throttling and service-level objectives.
  • Design integration observability, error handling, idempotency, and retry / back-off strategies.

    • 3) Data Architecture

  • Produce conceptual / logical / physical data models; define lineage, metadata, master / reference data approaches, and data product contracts.
  • Guide data platform choices, ingestion patterns, and quality controls.
  • Ensure data usage complies with privacy regulations, records management, and data retention requirements.

    • 4) Security, Privacy & Risk (by design)

  • Embed information security policies and privacy regulations into designs.
  • Define security NFRs, run design risk assessments, and plan controls.
  • Document assumptions, risks, and deviations; propose mitigations and escalate through governance forums.

    • 5) Governance & Standards

  • Prepare architecture packs and present them at architecture peer reviews and review forums.
  • Align solutions with enterprise reference architectures, principles, patterns, and technology standards.
  • Maintain architecture decision records and contribute to the pattern library and roadmaps.

    • 6) Delivery Enablement & Vendor Management

  • Partner with delivery leads, engineers, analysts, and vendors to sequence scope and ensure buildability.
  • Provide design assurance during build and support readiness for testing.
  • Govern vendor designs to ensure reusability, compliance, and commercial soundness.

    • Required Experience & Skills

    Architecture & Delivery

  • 10+ years in software / solution architecture across application, integration, and data domains.
  • Track record producing HLDs, NFRs, interface specs, data / integration designs, and runbooks.
  • Strong command of trade-off analysis and evolutionary delivery.

    • Technology Breadth

  • Applications : distributed systems design, containerisation, CI / CD, infrastructure-as-code.
  • Integration : API management, messaging / streaming, API security & life-cycle management.
  • Data : modelling, data contracts, ingestion / ELT, warehousing, lineage, metadata, quality & MDM.
  • Security & Operations : identity and access, encryption, observability, resilience testing.

    • Governance & Compliance

  • Knowledge of enterprise architecture standards, information security policies, privacy regulations.
  • Experience with peer reviews, design authorities, and architecture review forums.

    • Behaviours & Collaboration

  • Pragmatic communicator who can simplify complexity.
  • Influencer & facilitatorable to build consensus and land decisions.
  • Outcome-focused and comfortable with ambiguity.

    • Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • Recognised architecture certifications such as TOGAF.
  • Continuous learning in security, data, or integration disciplines.

    • Soft Skills & Behaviours

  • Strategic Thinking Ability to see the bigger picture, align solutions with business goals, and anticipate downstream impacts.
  • Influencing & Stakeholder Management Skilled at building consensus across business, IT, and vendor teams; able to handle contention diplomatically.
  • Communication Excellence Can simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and articulate trade-offs clearly.
  • Collaboration & Facilitation Works effectively in cross-functional teams; facilitates workshops and design sessions to drive decisions.
  • Adaptability & Resilience Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and iterative delivery in fast-paced environments.
  • Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking Uses structured approaches to resolve complex issues and make sound decisions under pressure.
  • Leadership Without Authority Guides and mentors delivery teams, promotes best practices, and drives adoption of standards without formal line authority.
  • Customer-Centric Mindset Keeps user experience and business value at the core of design decisions.
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