Evaluate alternatives and arrive at the best technology solution to solve specific business problems.
Provide technical direction, oversight of technical design and architecture and effort estimation and for all software solutions
Leads the estimation and assessment of the feasibility of solutions and their business impact
Lead the establishment and enforcement of related architectural governance and ensure alignment with industry frameworks.
Identifies and manages the organizational impact (on skills, processes, structures, and culture) and financial impact of proposed architectural solutions.
Continuously assesses the systems' architecture currently in place and works with technical staff to recommend and implement solutions to improve it.
Provides technical design and architectural leadership for the development of solution prototypes to justify the suitability of recommended solutions
Analyze and study complex systems requirements and prepare design documentation.
Provides updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets
Contribute toward the continuous improvement of project management methodology utilized within the Development team
Continually research the current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed
Describes the structure, characteristics, behaviour, and other aspects of software to project stakeholders
Provides mentorship to junior architects and developers
Performs miscellaneous projects and duties as assigned to support the management team
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree from college or university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems Technology, or related field. A postgraduate degree is desirable.
Minimum of 7 years of experience in engineering and software architecture design
Minimum of 4 year as a solution architect
Working experience of architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF)
Working experience of development frameworks and methodologies (Agile, DevOps, Scrum)
Development experience in at least one of the following: .Net, Java, SQL, React, Angular, Python, etc.