Solution Architect

The Enterprise Architects are focused on enabling business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritise current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer- term strategic vision of the organisation.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Identifying and analysing of the organisations Business drivers and business development strategies
• Analysing of the current IT ecosystem to detect critical deficiencies and Pain Points
• Recommending solutions for overall Business and Technology innovation and optimisation/improvement that will increase sustainability and prepare for future expansion
• Align with the organisations technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards or direct necessary changes to these
• Delivering transition views (models) that are an interim view, in between the current state and a future state
• Ensuring that the architecture of the enterprise is optimised, it is essential that all Architecture Domains (Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application architecture, Technology Architecture) integrate (and inter-operate) in a cost-effective manner, with minimum effort and maximum benefit to the organisation
• Guiding the technology, design patterns, design constructs and the (re-usable) solution building blocks that make up a Solution Architecture, defining a conceptual Solution Architecture
• Keeping up to date with and having a clear understanding of the capabilities and benefits of new/emerging technologies in order to apply same in a business context
• Provide assistance in business case development (i.e., research, data collection). Provide factual content to the feasibility studies that are needed for standard development projects and enhancements

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related discipline with an Information Technology focus
• 8 years of experience in IT, with a minimum of two years in Business Process Design
• Experience with process redesign methods and tools
• 5 years of demonstrated management / supervisory experience in system management