Senior Solutions Architect at Rand Merchant Bank

Purpose:

• To create and maintain architecture solutions to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs

Responsibilities: 

• Macro Environment
• Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities and trends that would add value to the required architectural work

• Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business
• Prepare and share recommendations for process and systems improvements in relevant area of accountability. This includes the requirement to decommission legacy technologies
• Actively participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment (current and planned)
• Business Alignment
• Partner with BT and Business stakeholders to create integrated roadmaps to enable business requirements delivery
• Enterprise architecture design
• Partner with Company and other BU architects to contribute to the creation and review of an architecture capability strategy which meets the strategic requirements of the business.
• Estimate potential changes to business requirements and processes, due to changes/ improvements made in information systems, data management practices, information management procedures, and/ employed software/hardware

Solution design

• Use appropriate tools and methods to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business / functional areas to improve the efficiency of system and business performance
• Produce systems and component specifications and translate these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products in support of business or systems changes. This includes the alignment of required documentation
• Provide learning and make suggestions on technical aspects of system development and integration

Architecture governance

• Monitor adherence to processes which support the prescribed architectural frameworks and ensure delivery teams align to the required standards and methodologies
• Recommend appropriate interventions in own area of ways to improve architectural compliance. This includes BU/FA representation at relevant forums e.g. Architecture Board, Cloud Steerco

 Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant Degree
• Relevant experience in a similar environment
• Data, security, technical and application architecture best practice
• Enterprise architecture frameworks e.g. Togaf
• Corporate Investment Banking domain
• Industry standards and benchmarks
• Problem analysis, alternatives testing and framing and solution design implementation
• Crafting sustainable and dynamic solutions
• Analysis and Attention to Detail
• Big Picture Thinking
• Drive and Results Orientation
• Problem Solving
• Customer Service Orientation