Solutions Architect (Finance) Mr Price Group

at  Mr Price Group

We’re looking for an innovative solutions architect, focused on Financial Services & Finance!
You would be the awesome person who analyses what technologies are available and suggest, design and implement creative and pragmatic technical solutions to achieve our business goals.
Become part of our innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team and shape the future of our retail landscape! Our architecture team includes experts in enterprise architecture, domain and solution architecture. We utilise industry leading technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.

QUALIFICATIONS: DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, ENGINEERING OR INFORMATION SYSTEMS5 OR MORE YEARS’ EXPERIENCE IN IT SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT AND 3-5 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURESTRONG VERBAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION SKILLS, STRONG INTERPERSONAL SKILLS, ANALYSIS AND DESIGN, SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE DESIGN, INQUISITIVE, METHODICAL, ANALYTICAL, CRITICAL THINKINGADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS: TIME & PROJECT MANAGEMENT, EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING MODELSTHOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF FINANCIAL SERVICES OR FINANCE BUSINESS DOMAIN; RETAIL UNDERSTANDING ADVANTAGEOUSMR PRICE GROUP LIMITED IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND IS COMMITTED TO EMPLOYMENT EQUITY.

Responsibilities: Solution Design
Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services
Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth
Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions
Understanding non-functional requirements of a solution and mitigating risk by complying with governance and legislative requirements
Architecture Design
Participate in selecting the most appropriate technology (platform, tech-stack, framework) for a solution, as well as balancing architectural guidelines of the corporate environment
Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy
Keep abreast of the latest changes & trends in IT architecture to provide insights and recommendations to the business in regards to optimisation, improvements or adoption of new tools and technologies
Business Domain
Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment
Contribute technical thought leadership to influence discussions and decision-making within the group

Team development

• Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers to become Solution Architects

Please refer the Job description for details