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Lead Solution Architect Jobs in Pretoria, South Africa at Absa Bank
time left to apply End Date:
January 23, 2025 (4 days left to apply)
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Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of thisexcitinggrowth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
The Card Issuing Intranet and Partners, a division within Everyday Core Banking, is looking for a Lead Solution Architect with a strong focus on Debit Card and Credit Card. This role involves driving the design and delivery of complex fit-for-purpose, business strategy-aligned, high impact, cross-domain technology solution blueprints and associated solutions, while building architectural capability in Dev teams across an estate.
Job Description
Architecture
• Leverage a solid & deep understanding of the organization strategy to identify, design & deliver relevant, scalable, testable, re-usable technology solutions.
• Work incollaborationwith delivery teams to independently analyse customer requirements & varying business capabilities & leverage analysis to identify & accurately spec/frame ‘the complex business problems we are aiming to solve’ with each solution design or solution evolution.
• Through the above processes, leverage emotional, social & business/commercial quotient to understand consumers and the broader range of stakeholders, their opinions & perspectives and reconcile these within the solution designs (negotiation skills and dealing with complex and divergent stakeholder opinions are a must).
• Leverage expertise in analytical &creative problem solvingto synthesise a solution design beyond the analysis of the problem.
• Leaddesign thinkingprocesses to successfully deliver solution blueprints & associated roadmaps.
• Create end-to-end solution blueprints & ensure these can be implemented across all phases of the initiative life-cycle (ideation through to product launch & commercialization).
• Design & or contribute to the design & implementation of detailed feasibilities & business cases.
• Leverage a strong engineering background to make the right choices in solution design – this knowledge includes but is not limited to: domain-driven design, loosely coupled integration, microservices and othermodernsoftware design practices.
• Identify the best fit tools for a particular solution, understanding those that would not be a good choice and leveraging researching skills to pivot towards something better.
• Assume ‘one stop’ shop accountability for solution blueprint design & delivery decisions within an organization based on the above.
• Work with project/program management teams to design solution roadmaps aligned to the strategic requirements of an organization and through which the solution can be implemented across all phases of the initiative life-cycle (ideation through to product launch and commercialization).
• Work embedded, as part of a delivery team, to ensure the successful design & implementation of solution blueprints.
• Ensure that the detail of the solution (across all architecture domains) is accurate to the implementation of the initiative, true to the bank’s architectural principles/preferences, implementable by the different teams involved in the solution.
• Conduct solution reviews,code reviews, testing and other disciplines…
Title: Lead Solution Architect
Company: Absa Bank
Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Category: IT/Tech
