Cloud Solution Architect

Company Description

Standard Bank Offshore is the offshore arm of the Standard Bank Group, a leading Africa focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage. Our international Banking, Lending, Investment, Fiduciary and Wealth Management services offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals.

Our clients range from individuals to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa and SBO is perfectly positioned to support the growth of our organisation from our office in the Isle of Man, Jersey, London, MAUs and South Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To develop, design and maintain the solution architectures for specific business functional/technical areas. To participate in the definition of the higher-level functional and non-functional requirements, analyse technical trade-offs, determine the major components and subsystems, and define the interfaces and collaborations between them, safeguarding the strategic alignment of technology architecture with the agreed business outcomes

Minimum Qualification:

• Post Graduate Degree in Information Technology

Experience Required

• 5 - 7 years experience in Enterprise Technology & Solutions Architecture
• Experience in multiple IT disciples e.g. Dev Hardware, analysis, design, service management, architecture
• Good understanding of Agile working practices and LEAN and SCRUM proficiency and working collaboratively across teams. Experience gained in the management of platforms and operating systems
• 8-10 years experience in designing innovative solutions within technology businesses such as Authentication Systems, System, Platform, and Account Migrations, Enterprise Solution Architecture (ESA), Business Architecture, Information Architecture, Application Architecture or Technology Architecture with a balanced mix of skills covering technologies and industry knowledge

Key Outputs

• Adhere to Agile methodologies and follow Agile principles through work outputs and behaviours and strive to reach mature levels on the Continuum model by building own competence to work in a continuous delivery environment
• Design, develop, and maintain solution architectures for specific business functional/technical areas and actively participate in the programme to ensure implementation on the evolving solution of an application
• Monitor requests for information and requests for proposal (RFI and RFP) and provide input and evaluation criteria applied during these processes. Evaluate and score RFI and RFP responses.
• Provide an assessment, review, recommendation and or opinion of Solution, Domain and Client Segment architectures for alignment to Engineering and Business Strategies, legislation and regulation and other relevant governance processes
• Uphold the strategic alignment of technology architecture (functional, platform, application, information and data, security, and integration architecture) with the agreed business outcomes

Behavioural Competencies

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Checking Things
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts
• Embracing Change
• Examining Information
• Interpreting Data
• Managing Tasks
• Producing Output
• Taking Action
• Team Working

Technical Competencies

• Emerging Technology Monitoring
• Information Technology Architecture
• Internal & External IT Environment
• IT Applications
• IT Knowledge
• Solutions Assessment
• Stakeholder Management (IT)

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