Solutions/CRM Architect - Sandton Verfied

Salary Negotiable Sandton, Gauteng Sandton, Gauteng more than 14 days ago 26-09-2016 4:47:42 PM
24-10-2016 4:47:42 PM
Our dynamic client, a major player in South African banking, seeks to employ Solutions Architect to design IT solutions and meet business needs in a new niche sector of the market. Candidates should have a development background and proven design experience. The position is based in Sandton Johannesburg.

Within the position, the successful candidate will manage change process and establish overall solutions architecture and frameworks, assessing process and business risks relating to systems and business needs.

We are looking for candidates with:

• Experience developing in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform, including working with and creating entities, data imports, MS SQL Server 2008 R2 (must have experience), 2012 (current stack) and 2016, (SQL and T-SQL) queries, reports, stored procedures, building CRM solutions.
• Development experience in creating plug-in and processes for Dynamics CRM.
• Base experience on at least CRM 2013 and 2015, experience earlier versions are highly recommended
• Experience with Integration to host/mainframe systems on various integration platforms. Familiarity with XML and Web services (SOAP and REST) and be comfortable developing and consuming these services using C#.
• Ability to generate XSDs
• Consuming web services and viewing result from these calls
• Client side development in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular1.0 and 2.0 JS
• The architects will be working with the 2016 version of CRM and .Net 4.5.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Reduce cost by identifying inappropriate technologies for the organisation.
• Provide guidance in architecting solutions that yield the highest return on investments.
• Deliver a service which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
• Maintain close working relationships with key stakeholders ensuring appropriate IT solutions are developed.
• Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements. Collaborate with and transfer knowledge with internal and external teams
• Provide functional expertise to troubleshoot highly complex problems, or present/market new technology or solutions for business
• Establish architectural standards and frameworks and assess functional and process risks on projects by collaborating with other architects to translate the customer’s requirements. Identify, justify and design a specific solution that meets business requirements.
• Assess process and business risks relating to systems to ensure minimal risk to the organisation. Comply, understand and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements for IT Solutions.
• The planning and management of the interaction between two or more networking systems, computers or other "intelligent" devices. E.g.: ISDN, ATM, Ethernet, TCP/IP.

Minimum requirements:

• IT related Degree or Diploma
• 10 years plus IT experience
• Previous programming experience/knowledge of programming principles necessary
• 2-3 years’ experience in Solutions Architecture.

Salary offered is R1M negotiable on experience, plus benefits such as medical aid, pension fund and performance bonuses.