Domain Architect II

Domain Architect II Western Cape - South Africa

Become part of an innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team.

Our mature architecture team is based in Cape Town and includes experts in enterprise architecture, solution architecture and data architecture. We operate in an agile retail environment of Africa's largest retailer that utilizes industry leading IT technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.

As a recognized authority of Retail ERP, the Domain Architect strategically advises on and drives the Retail strategy that underpins all business solutions, creates the architecture for these platforms and leads the realization of the architecture roadmap into the target state. Deep subject matter knowledge relating to Retail ERP solutions, merchandising master data, procurement, pricing and promotions and analytical systems as applicable to the retail industry is essential.

Job Objectives:

Consult on the Retail strategy, develop roadmaps and reference architectures, and govern the technology selection in support thereof.

• Develop and maintain an understanding of the technology strategy and business priorities for Retail in the enterprise.
• Develop Shoprite's Retail landscape roadmap and blueprints in line with the strategic business direction
• Maintain, socialize and enforce Retail System standards, keeping technology stakeholders up to date with changes in the technology standards highlighting potential impact to the enterprise.
• Be clearly identified as the Retail Systems authority for all technologies and provide technical guidance and leadership in technology proposals, RFIs, RFPs, and project teams.
• Keep abreast of the latest Retail technology trends and emerging technologies, determine the potential impact on the enterprise, and drive adoption as deemed appropriate.
• Create and present reference architectures as advice on the Retail architecture strategy for the organization.

Serve as the Retail domain architecture and design authority for all project and operational stakeholders, and ensure architecture quality across all solution platforms enabled by customer-facing solutions

• Be clearly identified as the senior design authority as it relates to the Retail domain and provide technical guidance and leadership in solution proposals, RFIs, RFPs, and project teams.
• Partner with the Enterprise Architect and other Solution Architects in support of the definition and development of the overall enterprise solution landscape.
• Detect critical deficiencies in Retail architectures and recommend improvements.
• Work with external service providers to drive projects to successful implementation.
• Review external and internal designs for Retail systems from a risk and technology perspective
• Ensure applicable Architecture and Design reviews are conducted for Retail solutions in line with the defined IT governance and processes.
• Provide architectural oversight and guidance to development teams to ensure high-quality technical solution designs during the detailed design, build, test and deploy phases that conforms to architecture principles and standards.
• Mentor solution architect / senior developers / designers / business analysts.

Provide expert Retail guidance, ensure solution architectures and designs are in line with the Retail strategy and technology standards and conduct architecture and design reviews as part of the Architecture Review Committee.

• Define and develop the overall Retail architecture landscape in partnership with other Domain Architects and Solution Architects.
• Review proposed solution architectures ensuring alignment with architecture principles, the architecture framework, Retail reference architectures, set technology standards and identify critical gaps, and recommend improvements.
• Give guidance and advice to peers in respect to Retail solution designs ensuring the designs conform to industry best practices and standards.
• Engage all stakeholders to obtain agreement on proposed Retail solutions and work closely with business stakeholders, Business Analysts, System Analysts and Project Managers to architect and implement retail solutions.

Contribute to solution architecture and design standards and SDLC governance requirements

• Define a framework for Solution Architecture and develop the policies and procedures and templates to guide and govern the Solution Architecture processes.
• Develop and maintain solution architecture principles and quality compliance criteria to guide technology decisions.
• Develop and set solution modeling standards and guidelines.
• Define a set of metrics to measure and report on the performance of the various solution architecture processes.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science (or similar) - essential
• TOGAF certification - desirable

Experience:

• Working experience within the IT industry - 10-15 yrs
• An in-depth functional understanding of SAP Retail, SAP Master Data, Pricing, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Inter module integration and back-office Retail Finance - 5-10 yrs
• Worked on projects across multiple applications, SAP and non-SAP - 5-10 yrs
• Retail industry experience with an understanding of retail business processes - 5 yrs
• Understanding of different methods of SAP integration (ALE/IDOC, enterprise services, MFT, PI) - 5+ yrs
• Experience with all aspects of IT projects from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production support (SDLC) - 5+ yrs
• Excellent design and architecture skills and proven track record delivering well designed complex enterprise class systems - 5+ yrs
• Excellent technical development and be able to mentor others to improve their design and development skills - 3+ yrs
• Identification and formulation of solution architecture and solution alternatives and their assessment - 5+ yrs
• Demonstrated expertise in a variety of application development methodologies and practices - 5+ yrs
• Lead a team through an architectural development process and collaborate with application development teams, architects and other members of the software development team - 2-3 yrs
• Experience with current research and standards in Solution Architecture - 2-3 yrs
• Experience in high volume data and files processing, in a batch and real time, integration environment. - desirable - 5+ yrs
• Experience in agile practices. - desirable - 2+ yrs
• Project management experience of mid-sized projects. - desirable - 2-3 yrs

Knowledge and Skills:

• Architecture and design of Retail Solutions and integration to other solutions - 10yrs
• Experience with cloud, including AWS and Azure - 3-5yrs
• Proven experience creating Retail FMCG solutions, building and maintaining reliable and scalable solutions as well as experience working with varied forms of data infrastructures - 3-5yrs
• Software development frameworks and methodologies (Agile, Scrum, TOGAF, etc.) - 3-5yrs
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and logical skills - 10yrs
• Strong senior stakeholder management skills - 5yrs
• Excellent team-working, interpersonal skills - 5yrs
• Develop of proposals and excellent written communication & presentation skills - 5yrs
• Strong conflict management skills - 5yrs

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