Cloud Solution Architect at Standard Bank Group

About the job

Job Details

As the financial sector evolves to embrace digitisation and the rapid evolution of the technology landscape, traditional architectures and solutions are being challenged and are unable to ensure business meets its growth objectives and provide efficient solutions to clients. Within the context of an integrated financial service organisation, it is also opportune to continue to re-examine and align the architecture to support the broader organisational objectives.

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect (Cloud)

to join our team at a senior management level. This role contributes to that journey through the enablement and support of features on the Consumer & High Net Worth - Client Services team

To lead & drive the implementation of Intelligent Process Automation and Operations Effectiveness projects by applying project management methodologies and Consulting skills in order to achieve project success within approved parameters in terms of scope, cost and quality and successful delivery of the capabilities, practices and service offerings of the Intelligent Process Automation Centre of Excellence across the Standard Bank Group.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s Degree – Information Technology, Engineering, Commerce
• Relevant Architecture Certification
• 5 – 7 Years’ experience in Analysis and Design- Experience Description: Experience in multiple IT disciples e.g. Dev Hardware, analysis, design, service management, architecture
• 5-7 Years experience in IT Application - Experience Description: Experience across all application areas of IT
• The person would ideally also need: Cloud architecture knowledge.

Job Purpose

• Render daily support aligned with a model of Continuous Delivery, promoting a Dev Ops culture
• Participate in the end-to-end agile development process within the construct of DevOps practices and methodology.
• Support agile ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint review and sprint retrospectives.
• Supervise and foster built in quality.
• Provide technical insights to support release planning, including user stories breakdown, tasks assignment, and backlog grooming, through elicitation and clarifications of user stories and requirements with business stakeholders and communication of IT dependencies.
• Develop and Contribute to Reference Architectures
• Work with portfolio stakeholder, EAs and enablers to develop, separate and implement the enabler Epics.
• Align reference architectures to strategic and target roadmaps.
• Conduct research and or investigate in order deliver reference architectures.
• Contribute and define architectural guardrails and non-functional requirements.
• Understand the Solution Context and work with the teams, Customers, and suppliers to help ensure fitness for use in the Customer’s environment.
• Review and align product choices to avoid redundant effort.
• Assist with the formulation and review of architectural policies, principles and standards.
• Develop and Contribute Domain/Segment Architectures
• Plan and develop the architect runway in support of upcoming business features/capabilities.
• Support Technology/engineering aspects of Programme and value stream Kanban’s.
• Establish architectural runway and backlogs for specific domains/segments.
• Create domain/segment architectures by collaborating with key stakeholders, peers and/ or feature teams, aligned to reference architectures and roadmaps.
• Coordinate activities across areas and domains in order to facilitate and deliver relevant artefacts.
• Explore and propose new concepts and solutions through innovative thinking.
• Ensure that the Formulated Architectures are at the appropriate level.
• Ensure that the Formulated Architectures are at the appropriate level (conceptual, logical and or physical) for the correct understanding and importance.
• Investigate and research in order deliver relevant domain/segment artefacts.
• Produce transitional architectures aligned to the target architectures.
• Influence and communicate to relevant stakeholders to accept and adopt architectures.
• Develop domain/segment architecture patterns to be consumed in Solution, Segment or Domain Architectures.
• Develop Solution Architectures/Designs