Responsibilities:
- Assist in the establishment of an IT Architecture practice and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology
- Manage activities that take place during solution ideation, solution design and solution implementation
- Review business context for solutions to company challenges as well as defining the vision and requirements for the solutions, recommending potential options
- Communicate the architecture to the stakeholders, and collaborate and coordinate with existing domain architects in the formalisation and adoption of IT standards and procedures
- Champion a structured approach to business application solutions
- Directly assists in the development of a solutions architecture programme, including departmental roadmaps and project portfolios for IT systems architecture
- Assure solutions are not only a fit for the specific purpose, but also closely align with the standard guidelines of technology solutions
- Influence changes to standards when necessary
- Assist domain architecture team on solutions management and timing of financial spend for application solutions
- Support the architectural aspects of all application projects in peer IT portfolios
- Direct the identification and recommendation of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability and total cost of ownership
- Develop and execute solutions which further reduce the percentage of time spent on reactive work
- Constantly improve skillset to industry trends and standards
Qualities:
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail regarding accounting skills
- Ability to work under indirect supervision
- Broad understanding of information technology topics
- Effective interpersonal skills and collaborative management style to include teamwork and team building ability
- Technically creative and open-minded
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent
- Minimum of 8 – 11 years of experience related to solutions architecture
- Demonstrated ability to communicate the complexities of technical programmes
- Experience in software engineering and design architecture
- Broad understanding of information technology topics such as
- Computer and operating systems
- DevOps
- System security measures
- Database technologies
- Web platforms
- Cloud computing