Solutions Architect

A prominent financial institution dedicated to providing inclusive banking solutions to meet the diverse needs of its customers is looking for a Solutions Architect to join their team.

In this role you will hold ownership of a specific product domain within the company s technological ecosystem and lead technical excellence by making pivotal decisions that influence its technical direction and integrity. As well as ensure that both the specific domain and broader ecosystem remains scalable efficient and aligned with the company s strategic goals by harnessing best coding practices methodologies and technologies and emphasizing eventdriven and domaindriven designs.

Your daily adventures include:

Applying expert knowledge and develop others understanding of the following:

• IT systems development processes (SDLC)
  
• Application development
  
• Advanced programming concepts
  
• Advanced algorithms and data structures
  
• Design Patterns
  
• Version Control
  
• Testing practices
  
• Database systems and query optimization (e.g. SQL NoSQL).
  
• RESTful API design and integration.
  
• Cloud computing platforms and services (e.g. AWS Azure).
  
• Advanced Microservice and eventdriven architectures
  
• Deployment using Kubernetes and containerization
  
• Responsive design principles and mobilefirst development.
  
• Browser compatibility issues and performance optimization.
  
• Frontend build tools and package managers
  

Requirements

What it takes to succeed:

• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational
  
• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology
  
• Documented experience (8 years) as a Solutions Architect or a comparable role.
  
• Mastery over coding and tech skills especially in Java C# Node.js AWS Kafka and similar technologies.
  
• Handson experience with containerization tools like Kubernetes.
  
• Comprehensive grasp of risk management within tech frameworks.
  
• Practical engagement with opensource ecosystems.
  
• Experience in AWS is ideal