(1828) Solution Architect - BSTD

Location: Pretoria, South Africa

Brief description

The main purpose of this position is to develop and implement the architectural design of solutions to support the business goals and to ensure alignment of business and IT at a solution level within the South African Reserve Bank (the Bank).

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Develop solution architectures for the different projects and the end-to-end delivery of solutions to business.

• Combine various domain (business, data, application and technology) architectural AS-IS (baseline) and TO-BE (target) models, with roadmaps to create an overall solution architecture and roadmap with the supporting transition architectures.

• Collaborate with lead and ensure alignment between the enterprise architecture, solution architecture, architecture principles and ICT standards to ensure standardisation and reduce risk.

• Govern the end-to-end delivery of the solution to business and ensure that solutions implemented match the architectural designs (quality control).

• Contribute to the development of evaluation criteria for Product evaluations, Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Proposal (RFPs).

• Assist int the evaluation of Products and Partners based on evaluation criteria, RFIs and RFPs.

• Contribute to advancing ICT standards and optimisation of the ICT facilities in the Bank.