Position Summary:
Infinity Services Partner Company is a Managed Services Business, wholly owned by and a fully-fledged subsidiary of Vodacom .Infinity Services Partner Company is looking for a Solution Architect. The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of a solutions and capability architecture for business capability, according to the overall business vision and target architecture. This role is responsible for the technical analysis and solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain APIs, and technical enablers. This role is responsible for reviewing the target architecture vision and roadmap, evaluating and prioritizing roadmap items, and translating them into designs and non-functional requirements. The role is also responsible to provide support within the system development lifecycle of a project/initiative that could vary from providing subject-matter expertise; testing resources; post-deployment support; and/or being business/technical liaisons relating to the solution delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide guidance to delivery teams to ensure alignment
- Collaborate to plan the release of technical designs
- Facilitate solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs
- Define non-functional, operational, and quality requirements for solutions
- Design end-to-end solutions and cross domain integration and APIs
- Advocate adoption of new technologies into solutions
- Manage technical debt and technology obsolescence at solution level
- Translate the overall business vision and target architecture into corresponding solution designs and change requirements
- Define technical designs to enable business capabilities, fostering re-use of existing components, and accept technical features following demos
What you’ll have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Analysis, or other technology related field
- Excellent analytical, technical, and problem solving skills, with high-levels of creativity
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with both technical and business audiences
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, with natural intellectual curiosity and integrity
- Five to seven years of experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment
- Extensive exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
- Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
- Ability to understand long-term (‘big picture’) and short-term perspectives of events and change and how they relate to achieving business outcomes
- Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls
- Extensive experience in business capability modelling and technical and solution architecture development.
- Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and technology trends
- Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across multiple DevOps teams