Job Title: Solution Architect

Location

Gauteng, Johannesburg Metro, Johannesburg

Job Type

Contract – Full-Time hours

Background & Objectives:

• The initiative aims to provide solution architecture capability across Trade Online and related platforms to:
• Translate business and technology requirements into coherent, scalable, and secure solution designs.
• Ensure solution options, architecture decisions, and implementation approaches are aligned to enterprise architecture, security, data, integration, and operational resilience standards.
• Improve end-to-end design clarity across applications, interfaces, data flows, infrastructure, environments, and operational support considerations.
• Reduce delivery risk through early identification of architectural constraints, dependencies, technical risks, and integration impacts.

Scope of Services:

• Solution architecture support for priority Trade Finance products, Trade Online enhancements, and cross-platform change initiatives.
• Analysis of business requirements, feature scope, non-functional requirements, integration needs, data requirements, and operational impacts.
• Development of solution options, architecture recommendations, design assumptions, dependencies, and trade-off considerations.
• Facilitation of design alignment across product, feature analysis, software engineering, test automation, SRE, infrastructure, security, and operations teams.

Technical Implementation:

• Creation and maintenance of solution architecture artefacts including high-level designs, integration views, data flow views, application interaction views, and deployment considerations.
• Assessment of solution alignment to enterprise architecture principles, reusable patterns, security standards, cloud/infrastructure standards, and supportability requirements.
• Definition of architecture decisions, design constraints, technical risks, assumptions, and mitigation actions.
• Support for architecture governance, design reviews, change impact assessments, and release readiness from a solution architecture perspective.

Experience:

• 5-7 years of experience