Software Architect, Johannesburg, Salary Negotiable 

Technical knowledge for Software Architect

PROJECT RELATED COMPETENCIES

Solution Development and Delivery

• Experience designing, building, and/or managing complex technical environments and applications.

• Demonstrated ability to manage conflicting needs of stakeholders and development teams.

• Possesses and exudes extraordinary optimism.

• Business acumen.

• Ability to translate business strategy into technical terms and technology strategy into business terms.

• Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex architecture problems resulting in appropriate decisions which factor in technical, business and organizational constraints.

• Agile software development values, principles and practices.

• Systems life cycle management.

• Expertise in integration methods.

Project Execution

• Maintains strong architectural expertise and knowledge of current and emerging technologies and products, and evaluates for both general and specific usage.

• Identify trends and patterns from a large amount of business and IS information and demonstrate a broad perspective of the enterprise (the big picture).

• Identify opportunities and implications of the tradeoffs between cost/performance, buy/build, outsourcing, etc.

• Develops and socializes strategic architecture strategies, standards and guidelines.

• Interacts directly with IS functional leaders to shape application and technology direction for defined business process (application) and technology domains (e.g. eCommerce, Order Management, Security, Infrastructure).

• Develops and documents current and target state architecture diagrams and mappings.

• Develops application portfolio and technology strategies, standards and roadmaps.

• Develops cross-domain architecture and integrates common strategies.

• Works with vendors to define product coverage within business process domains and as major application footprint coverage.

• Develop architecture training programs for development teams.

• Strong knowledge of the software development process.

CAREER PATH CORE COMPETENCIES

Communication

• Exceptional leadership, mentoring, listening and communication skills.

• Strong ability to influence without having direct authority.

• Assists in the facilitation of team and client meetings.

• Delivers informative, well-organized presentations.

• Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.

Architect Specification: 2012

• Advise all areas of the enterprise on architecture concepts and principles.

• Communicates and collaborates with Business Unit Leaders and Corporate Strategy.

• Articulates an IS perspective of key business strategy components.

• Interacts directly with the IS Leadership Team to shape high-level vision and direction.

• Develops and evangelizes the Enterprise IS Strategy.

• Influence IS functional leaders towards strategic architecture strategies, standards and guidelines.

• Interacts directly with IS experts and practitioners to identify architecture challenges and opportunities and resolves architecture issues related to applications, programs and technology.

• Able to reason at various levels of abstraction.

Relational Databases

• Understands advanced relational database concepts.

• Demonstrates experience with physical and logical database design.

• Possesses demonstrated work experience with at least one relational database management system.

• Good application of BI technologies in an Enterprise

Programming Languages

• Demonstrates expert knowledge C# / Java programming language.

• 10 or more years in the development industry.

• Understands comprehensively the benefits of the various programming languages frameworks and patterns.

• Good knowledge of WPF, WCF and Silverlight.

Architecture

• Possesses significant knowledge of client server and internet systems architectures.

• Creates well designed, reusable software systems.

• Understands the benefits of the various design methodologies and object oriented environments.

• Good knowledge of Entity framework

• Provides enterprise architecture oversight of application and technology projects and programs.

• Develops macro (high-level) application and technology design architecture for application portfolios and major program initiatives.

• Identifies and articulates consistency and reuse opportunities.

• Ensures alignment and compliance of detailed application and technical designs with architecture strategies, standards and guidelines.

• Provides detailed design endorsement and serves as the technical design authority.

• Ability to integrate disparate concepts into cohesive whole.

PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES

Leadership

• Follows through with commitments and fosters mutual trust with fellow employees.

• Assumes additional responsibility without being asked.

• Encourages fellow team members to make innovative contributions and embrace new ideas.

• Perform technical team lead responsibilities.

• Professional maturity and integrity.

Teamwork

• Proactively initiates, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with team members.

• Recognizes the strengths and weaknesses of each team member.

• Demonstrates the ability to cooperate with a variety of people and achieve results.

Client Management

• Anticipates client needs before they arise and presents solutions to project management that encompass issues at hand.

• Understands expectations that were set with client and recognizes when issues/events may affect delivery.

• Obtain trust relationship with clients with regards to technical advice.

ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Professional Development

• Proactively seeks opportunities to broaden and deepen knowledge base and proficiencies.

• Shares acquired skills with team members through formal and informal channels.

• Encourages more junior employees to take responsibility for their development within the company.

Internal Operations

• Actively contributes and lead internal programs.

• Assist with interviewing process of new employees

Qualifications

? Degree plus Honours qualification pref

Essential attributes and technologies

? 10 yrs + of IT experience