Deloitte Consulting - Core Business Operations: Operations Transformation – Solutions Architect Jobs in South Africa

Deloitte Consulting - Core Business Operations: Operations Transformation – Solutions Architect Jobs in South Africa


Main Purpose of Job

  • 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.

    Key accountabilities and decision ownership

  • 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

    Qualifications

    Must have technical / professional qualifications


  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Analysis, or other related field

  • Five to seven 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 multitier environment

  • 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

    Additional Information

    Core competencies, knowledge and experience

  • Solution architecture and design
    Feasibility analysis

  • Business capability / customer journey architecture governance in agile software delivery

  • Technical enablers, integration APIs, and detailed technical and operational story design
    Infrastructure design

  • Estimation techniques for scaled agile
    Technology Innovation: scouting, screening and evaluation

  • Cost of ownership of technology, application portfolio management

  • Web-scale cloud-native architectures including IaaS, PaaSand SaaS

  • Design of web-scale architectures and systems of innovation and engagement

  • DevOps practices and automation tools
    Artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data technologies and architectures
    Management of technical debt

  • 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

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; Deloitte Consulting - Core Business Operations: Operations Transformation – Solutions Architect Jobs in South Africa

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