Systems Architect
Optimal Growth Technologies
Date: 20 hours ago
City: Midrand, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time
Duration: 12 months
Location: Midrand
Key Role Responsibilities
Location: Midrand
Key Role Responsibilities
- Intentional Architecture design and Emergent Design:
- Define a set of purposeful architectural strategies and initiatives which enhance solution design, performance and usability
- Provide guidance for inter-team design and synchronise architectural implementation activities of systems
- Designing architecture that enables testability, deployability and releasability
- Provide the technical basis for a fully evolutionary and incremental implementation approach helping developers and designers respond to immediate user needs allowing the architectural design to evolve.
- Ensuring solutions are architected for continuous deployment and delivery by decoupling deployments from releases
- Defining a Minimum Viable (just enough) Architecture supporting the creation and evolution of systems and systems interfaces
- Fostering architecture as code through common naming conventions, attributes and annotations
- Build quality in by automating architectural compliance checks
- Promoting and building trust in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline for Agile Release Trains to independently explore and test ideas in a true production environment
- Collaborating with Solution Architects to ensure discrete solutions created by ARTs and Suppliers fit into and support the larger capabilities of the overall solution
- Participate in backlog refinement and prioritisation sessions
- Define enabler capabilities and NFRs
- Participate in regular Architect Sync sessions to ensure consistency in emerging designs and managing trade-offs across all ARTs and Shared Service teams
- Participate in Pre- and Post-PI Planning to work with relevant stakeholders and define the architectural approach and high-level objectives for the upcoming PI planning
- Participate in regular System Demo sessions to demonstrate new implemented approaches and assessing fitness for purpose
- Collaborate with Product Managers and the Release Train Engineer to assess releasability of elements of the solution in line with the Release Strategy
- Actively working with Agile Teams to ensure that emergent design choices minimise technology complexity and avoid unnecessary duplication of capabilities
- 10+ years technical background inclusive of systems architecture, systems design, software development lifecycle
- Experience in design and architecture of large, complex, business critical infrastructure and systems
- Design and Architecture of cloud services and cloud computing
- A hands-on system architect capable of sharing best principles and practices with the Architecture Team
- Ability to mentor/coach developers and other architects in architecture principles
- Strong business acumen and leadership mindset with the ability to communicate and influence others
- Has demonstrable knowledge and experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Science/Computer Science/Engineering related degree or equivalent work experience
- Certification in Solution Architecture, TOGAF, Cloud expertise is desired
- Domain experience in Financial Services and Financial technologies will be an added advantage
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