Solutions Architect (Retail & Supply Chain) - Mr Price Group

Looking for a new adventure in the new year?

Become part of our innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team and shape the future of our retail landscape!

Job Summary

You would join an architecture team that includes experts in enterprise architecture, domain and solution architecture. We utilise industry-leading technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.

We also have benefits! From the financial benefits like medical aid for you and your fam, pension fund, bonus structures & shares, to the cultural benefits like a growth & innovation culture, half day Fri-yay’s, study leave & great coffee! We have ‘em all.

This role is in Durban based at our awesome HQ, we offer super flexible hours and work hybrid.

how would you add value to our team?

• Grab coffee and food at our awesome canteen
• You would be that person who analyses what technologies are available and suggest, design and implement creative and pragmatic technical solutions to achieve our business goals.
• Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services
• Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth
• Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions
• Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy           
• Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment
• Be a thought leader to influence discussions and decision-making within the group
• Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 7-9 years experience in software engineering or IT solutions development or 2-5 years experience in solutions architecture
• Thorough understanding of retail and/or supply chain business domains
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, analysis, system architecture design, inquisitive, methodical, analytical, critical thinking
• Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models