A prominent local financial institution is looking for a highly motivated, energetic and skilled candidate to fill the role of a Solutions Architect
Main Duties
- Regularly applies complex practical information/ideas which often derive from business requirement interpretation and opinion.
- Identifies opportunities for change and prepares recommendations for highly complex issues that impact the way of doing business across the organization.
- Applying specialist skills and knowledge to solve customer’s architecture and business problems, within defined operating guidelines.
- Managing customer/client expectations and maintain productive and collaborative relationships.
- Responsibility for solving complex issues that result in technical faults, security violations or system deficiencies
- Requires formulation of multiple approaches to meet the business need and accountable for the “best fit” approach
Responsibilities
- Providing guidance and expert knowledge in support of the successful delivery of multiple projects.
- Providing guidance and expert knowledge in support of the successful delivery of multiple projects.
- Evaluate product code according to specifications
- Create logs to document testing phases and defects Report bugs and errors to development teams
- Help troubleshoot issues
Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing - Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Solution Architect or similar role
- Relevant skills and abilities normally acquired through a combination of 15 years’ related experience and/or Engineering/Computer Science/Business degree.
- Consistent demonstration of sound judgement and sound recommendations and solutions.
- Experience with software testing life cycle (STLC)
- Experience in project management and QA methodology
- Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus
- Demonstrated analytical and communication skills.
- Superior skill and knowledge in one or more of the following: business information/technology architecture; systems integration; methodologies, standards and metrics sufficient to interpret / analyze relevant issues/developments and apply these in innovative ways.
- Attention to detail
- Analytical mind and problem-solving aptitude
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong team player with a great attitude
- Strategic consulting/thinking skills within the Information Technology industry.
- Ability to effectively deal with individuals at all levels of the organization.
- Thinks about impact of decisions analytically
Minimum Experience Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
- Minimum of 10 – 12 years of experience related to IT Management or other information technology solutions architecture role
- Demonstrated ability to communicate the complexities of technical programs
- Proficiency with information technologies in a secure network environment
- Expertise with personal computers in a secure network environment and Microsoft applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and SharePoint) or similar software
Academic Requirements
- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field