Head: Solutions Architecture

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Requires excellent analytical, technical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Problem solving and decision-making skills
• Presentation and facilitations skills
• Relating and networking
• Leading and supervising
• JAD (Group) facilitation sessions
• TOGAF, Zachman or equivalent preferred
• Microservices and Cloud experience preferred.

Responsibilities:

• To support, create and migrate solutions from its current legacy architecture to its new modern platform architecture
• Work with Strategic Growth to design solutions that meet the strategic objectives
• Develop Requirements & Designs (both high level and detailed) in conjunction with Strategic Growth, Customer, Engineering
• To provide architectural guidelines and ensure that architecture principles are adhered to in the development of solutions.
• To analyse and refine requirements for delivering the necessary technology service to business and serve as liaison to the business community.
• Support accurate and practical designs for complete end to end technical delivery ensuring that, at all stages in the development life cycle, solution design meets user requirements and is feasible. 
• This will include, inter alia, development of user stories, test cases, etc
• To perform technical analysis in consultation with stakeholders (Technical architects, Product Managers, Operations team, Data and Infrastructure Architects), in order to refine high level business requirements into detailed technical requirements.
• Design scalable and robust Services and Applications that integrate across different technologies.
• Ensure that Legacy and Modern platforms integrate seamlessly.
• Provide high-level designs and guide low-level designs by engineering in response to business requirements and strategy.
• Ensure technical architectures and solutions are aligned with Group principles and technology guidelines.
• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog.
• To act as a technical liaison between business and the delivery team
• Lead pre-sales work. 
• Build a pre-sales capability, including process, work flows, SLA and team management
• Draft and deliver proposals in conjunction with Sales, Strategic Growth and Engineering
• Build implementation capability for project-oriented customer projects (enterprise and data projects typically)