Senior Solution Architect
As a Senior Solution Architect you’ll be working to deliver the solution design and define the engineering methods of our client's core mission applications, shaping innovative solutions to problems, underpinned by robust delivery and engineering methods to deliver capabilities that are not only essential to their business, but they’ll love to use.
Experience in most of the following:
- Shaping and driving solution thinking for complex bids and delivery engagements (contracts worth SARmillion+, and overall team sizes of more than 20).
- Shaping solution designs following a structured methodology as appropriate to the project.
- Defining system requirements for a software solution to support a scalable and resilient application.
- Overseeing the implementation of the design in collaboration with other team members such as Application, Data and Security Architects.
- Ensuring the design meets key functional and in particular non-functional requirements, enabling through life scenarios of the solution to be satisfied.
- Working with customer technical authorities to ensure that they have a clear understanding of architecture and design proposals at an appropriate level.
- Working with Engineering teams to promote good practice in engineering methods, e.g. development, automation and testing.
- Retaining overall ownership of the solution through delivery and transition into operation.
- Directing estimation efforts to develop an understanding of potential solution costs and delivery timescales.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Education: University or degree equivalent. Holding certificates on IT networking such as CCNP,CCIE or equivalent
- Experience: 5+ years of solution design experience (minimum 2 years on infrastructure design)
- Special Skills: communication skills, Good analytical skills, and current technology skills