JOB PURPOSE

To provide technical analysis and design of enterprise systems supporting defined business processes and functions.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Define the application and technical architecture structure, ensuring that it meets the business requirements and performance goals that the
technical direction is consistent with the client’s long-term direction.
• Work with the customer and end users to define application and technical requirements.
• Work with other architects to ensure that the products and components work together to meet the objectives and performance goals as defined in
the requirements.
• Fully understand the capabilities and limitations of the technical environments that come with the packaged software.
• Review and integrate all application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality, and operations requirements.
Review and integrate the technical architecture requirements for the development, execution, and operations environments.
• Make decisions regarding hardware, network products, system software, and security.
• Perform the application and technical architecture analysis, design, and implementation, and ensure that the product fulfils the requirements.
When applicable, work with other architects on these tasks.
• Design and develop application tiers, database tiers, i.e. models, infrastructure and security designs for enterprise solutions.
• Work with the support unit to determine how the application is supported in production, including back-ups, disaster recovery, system
performance, and project management.
• Obtain stakeholder buy-in for application and technical designs.
• Review application and technical architecture deliverables throughout development to ensure quality and requirement traceability.
• Identify and communicate any cross-area or cross-release issues that affect other project areas.
• Ensure adherence to all quality management plans and standards by participating in quality management reviews
• Validate the design with the stakeholders to ensure that the design satisfies the requirements.

EDUCATION, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• IT related degree/qualification or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Systems Analysis, with minimum of solid 3 years as solution architecture designing complex and large scale
systems in a project environment
• Practical experience in the programming languages and Microsoft Technologies environment and must include C#,XML, web services and SQL
tools
• Working knowledge on business modeling tools, UML and standard process flows
• Working experience on integrating systems
• Working experience and knowledge on systems design life cycle and object orientated methodologies
• Ability to probe for further information or greater understanding of a problem
• Ability to gathers many different kinds of information and uses many different sources to build a rich informational environment (including data
bases) about events, issues, and situations occurring inside and outside business unit, in preparation for decision making
• Systems thinking - Demonstrates an understanding of how one component may be a part of a much larger system
• Applies specialist and/or detailed technical expertise