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Senior Specialist Solution Architect

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Job Description:

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing and leading the implementation of a solutions and capability architecture for a particular business capability / user journey, according to the overall digital vision and target architecture. This role is responsible for the technical analysis and holistic solution design of future capabilities and features, including external dependencies, cross-domain APIs, and technical enablers / stories. 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. This incumbent is responsible for providing support to engineering to ensure development of technical stories are aligned to defined architecture paradigms, principles, and patterns.

Job Responsibility:

  • Translate the overall digital vision and target architecture into corresponding solution designs and change requirements
  • Design end-to-end solutions and cross domain integration and APIs
  • Define non-functional, operational, and quality requirements for solutions
  • Define technical stories to enable business capabilities, fostering re-use of existing components, and accept technical features following demos
  • Collaborate to plan the release of technical stories
  • Provide guidance to delivery teams to ensure alignment
  • Facilitate solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs
  • Manage technical debt and technology obsolescence at solution level
  • Advocate adoption of new technologies into solutions

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Analysis, or other related field
  • 5 – 7 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 multi-tier environment
  • Min 5 years’ knowledge and experience of implementing Oracle Fusion, Web services, SOAP and RESTful interfaces, and XML
  • Min 5 years’ experience and knowledge of IP networks and related solutions
  • Min 5 years’ experience and knowledge of micro services architectures
  • Extensive exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
  • Extensive experience in business capability modelling and technical and solution architecture development in a digital business context
  • Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, and BDD
  • Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries strongly preferred
  • Excellent analytical, technical, and problem solving skills, with high-levels of creativity
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with both technical and business audiences
  • Excellent relationship building, teamwork, and collaboration skills that enables the provision of effective support and guidance across multiple DevOps teams
  • Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends
  • Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, with natural intellectual curiosity and integrity
  • Vendor and technology neutral –driven primarily by long-term business outcomes rather than personal preferences
  • Sound business understanding and market awareness
  • 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
What we offer:
  • Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
  • Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
  • Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 22, 2026

Expiration:
March 30, 2026

Work Type:
On-site work
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