Technical Solutions Architect (CH908)

Our client is a company that provide various HR legal and professional services, and aiming to design products that are easy to use and provides value.

We are currently looking for a Technical Architect to troubleshoot highly complex problems to establish application architectural standards or frameworks to assess IT risks and design application solutions. To provide technical insights and direction on ensuring the culmination of all platform initiatives are steering towards a common architectural standard and purpose.

The company focuses to design, development, and servicing cutting edge Human Capital Management software suite.

Responsibilities: Inclusive of, but not limited to:

Produce application designs based on conceptual architectures
Review of technical designs
To enable and support technical leads in solving complex problems
Investigation and consultation on technical and technology related issues
Investigation, recommendation and documentation of technology components to be added to, changed, or removed from our technology estate
Creation, documentation and socialization of design patterns and standards
Manage costs on platform through technology
Ensure application architecture alignment within the technology solutions product area of responsibility.
Ensure architecture continuity in all major application solution decisions.
Provide expertise to identify and translate system requirements into infrastructure design.
Maintain and create an architectural map of the system architecture.
Actively monitoring and assessing the security within the landscape to ensure all threats are remedied.
Create and establish a proof of concept on emerging technologies.
Upskill of the technical leads on the emerging technology stack.

Qualification, Experience/Skills Required

You'll need a technical mindset and the following skills to succeed in this role:

BSc / Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Minimum 10 years of experience in building and running large scale systems professionally
Minimum 3 years of experience in an architect role, leading design of complex systems
Minimum 5 years of experience with technology development and delivery
Strong understanding of programming fundamentals, design patterns, building for scalability, performance, high-availability, clustering and security
10 years + experience in Java /JEE
5 years + Spring boot framework
Experience in interfacing with multi-faceted teams, internally and externally
Proficient in API design using REST, SOAP
Proficient in UML, BPM, and the use of architecture design tools

Our people are experts in their field, who have a passion for what they do and constantly seek to exceed the expected standard. Our people pride themselves to deliver best practice.

Functional Skills Required

Java 8 to 11
JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
J2EE
Junit (Testing Framework)4
Docker
Kubernetes (from a dev point of view, like Helm, deployment config, etc.)
Kong
The elastic stack
Microsoft Azure Cloud
Angular 6 through to 11 (advantageous)
REST
Microservice Architecture
MySQL version (2017/2019)
TomEE
Maven
Git
Bitbucket
Jenkins
SonarQube
Nexus
CI/CD
Windows environment
IntelliJ/ Eclipse
Jira
Confluence
Design thinking

General

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
In keeping with our client's employment equity requirements, only South African citizens will be considered.
Please include your current salary and salary expectations.

Desired Skills