Head: Solutions Architecture Job Johannesburg area,South Africa,IT/Tech

About the job Head:
Solutions Architecture Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

Requires excellent analytical, technical, interpersonal and communication skills.
Problem solving and decision-making skills
Presentation and facilitations skills
Relating and networking
Leading and supervising
JAD (Group) facilitation sessions
TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent preferred
Microservices and Cloud experience preferred.

Responsibilities:

To support, create and migrate solutions from its current legacy architecture to its new modern platform architecture
Work with Strategic Growth to design solutions that meet the strategic objectives
Develop Requirements & Designs (both high level and detailed) in conjunction with Strategic Growth, Customer, Engineering
To provide architectural guidelines and ensure that architecture principles are adhered to in the development of solutions.
To analyse and refine requirements for delivering the necessary technology service to business and serve as liaison to the business community.
Support accurate and practical designs for complete end to end technical delivery ensuring that, at all stages in the development life cycle, solution design meets user requirements and is feasible.
This will include, inter alia, development of user stories, test cases, etc
To perform technical analysis in consultation with stakeholders (Technical architects, Product Managers, Operations team, Data and Infrastructure Architects), in order to refine high level business requirements into detailed technical requirements.
Design scalable and robust Services and Applications that integrate across different technologies.
Ensure that Legacy and Modern platforms integrate seamlessly.
Provide high-level designs and guide low-level designs by engineering in response to business requirements and strategy.
Ensure technical architectures and solutions are aligned with Group principles and technology guidelines.
Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog.
To act as a technical liaison between business and the delivery team
Lead pre-sales work.
Build a pre-sales capability, including process, work flows, SLA and team management
Draft and deliver proposals in conjunction with Sales, Strategic Growth and Engineering
Build implementation capability for project-oriented customer projects (enterprise and data projects typically)