(567) Solution Architect (1FinSurv Programme) - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Develop solution architectures for different projects and govern the end-to-end delivery of solutions to business.
• Combine various domains (business, data, application and technology) and architectural as-is (baseline) and to-be (target) models with roadmaps to create an overall solution architecture and roadmap with the supporting transition architectures.
• Collaborate with the Lead Solution Architect and ensure alignment between the enterprise architecture, solution architecture, architecture principles and information and communications technology (ICT) standards to ensure standardisation and reduce risk.
• Ensure the developed solutions meet the business and technical requirements, both functional and non-functional.
• Review of developed solutions, assist with root cause analysis of solution problems, and propose solution updates. 
• Ensure that solutions implemented match the architectural designs (quality control). 
• Contribute to the development of evaluation criteria for product evaluations, requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposal (RFPs). 
• Assist the Lead Solution Architect to evaluate products and partners, based on evaluation criteria, RFIs and RFPs.
• Contribute to advancing ICT standards and the optimisation of the ICT facilities in the SARB.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours degree in Informatics, Computer Science or Engineering or related NQF8-equivalent qualification; and
• at least eight years’ experience in application analysis, architecture, design, enterprise architecture and/or solution architecture.  

The following would be an added advantage:

• relevant exposure in the payments ecosystem for interbank transfers, SWIFT and/or ISO 20022;
• certification and/or experience in:
• architecture frameworks and methods such as the Open Group architecture framework (TOGAF) and application data management (ADM).
• architecture notations, such as ArchiMate 3.
• unified modelling language (UML). 
• business process model and notation (BPMN); and
• Openshift Container Platform (OCP). 

Additional requirements include below knowledge and skills:

• Understanding of OCP and the various vendor implementations thereof, i.e. Redhat, IBM etc. 
• DevSecOps (Development, Security and Operations), both concept, maintenance and integration of the selected solutions. 
• Container and microservice design and best practice. 
• Application, data and services design.
• Message translation, i.e. ISO 20022.
• System integration.
• ICT industry standards.
• Research.
• Systems behaviour.
• Transactional systems.
• Software development. 
• Architecture views and viewpoints design.
• Population of architecture repository.
• Continuous improvement.
• Building blocks and architecture principles design.
• Architecture tools.
• Solution modelling and benefits analysis.