Solutions Architect
Bidvest Bank
- Sandton, Johannesburg
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor's Degree, Postgraduate, Business Administration equivalent
- 10 to 15 years of IT and business/industry work experience
- 5 -8 years management experience
- 5 years developing and executing strategic plans and/or project portfolios
- Enterprise Architecture
- Solutions Architecture
- Solutions Design
- IT Architecture
- Strategic thinking and planning
- Operational execution excellence
- Ability to drive change that enables efficiencies and drives growth
- Excellent interpersonal skills to influence, persuade and motivate others
- Systems thinking
- Team and collaboration orientation
- Management and Leadership skills
- Problem solving
- Performance driven
- Learning orientation
- Effective written/verbal communication skills
- Control and manage costs in line with the Business and bank budget expectations
- Responsible for the solutions architecture for the Bidvest Bank.
- Develop and maintain productive and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, to support achievement of Business outcomes.
- Proactively serve as a “trusted advisor,” and function as the primary IT point of contact to Bank stakeholders.
- Build and drive successful relationships across the business promoting a best for business approach to solutions, architecture, and design principles.
- Operate as the key business contact representing IT in promoting IT services and capabilities
- Function as the key liaison across all functional areas, including business units, the information technology department, and outside vendors
- Advising on technological solutions available to address business problems, providing timely advice on the feasibility
- Provide strategic thought leadership with regards to the role IT plays in executing the business strategy.
- Lead the translation of strategy into the development of solution architecture deliverables to ensure alignment with Bank strategies and architecture frameworks.
- Work with application, integration, and supplier architects to design solutions that support the business and assist with the alignment of supporting technology roadmaps.
- Oversee the solution architecture and design of solutions and help to maximise the positive impact on the Business.
- Actively contribute to IT strategy implementations and ongoing refinement activities in line with Bank goals.
- Strive to understand market challenges, including customer priorities and competitive issues
- Provide support in delivering solutions architecture that meet the needs of the business
- Collaborate with program/project teams to reconcile solutions to Bank architecture.
- Provide thought leadership on the future of technology as it relates to the Bank, initiative-taking in getting to grips with leading edge technologies and understanding their potential.
- Ensure the business is aware of emerging trends, practice, and technologies in the marketplace and how they may contribute to business outcomes and strategies.
- Actively identify and champion innovation initiatives supporting the Bank strategy.
- Continuously seek improved ways to work and efficiencies within team
- Promote and foster collaborative team and stakeholder relationships based on growth and resilience, integrity, accountability, and inclusion, and adheres to the Bank value of ‘Leadership'
- Monitoring and managing deliverables, output, and performance of subordinates
- Develops talent by facilitating cross training, developing, coaching, mentoring & growing individuals & teams in the Business Units.
- Encourages career advancement endeavours to staff.
- Following up on disciplinary procedures and any other matters relating to subordinates' behaviour and activities.
- Ensures that effective training & development practices exist in the BU & that continuous learning is fostered.
- Accountable for providing an environment in which employees can apply what they have learned
- Support & reinforce the application of newly acquired skills. Rewards the application of newly acquired skills & knowledge. Fosters a climate of continuous learning
- Ensure training is a part of employees' daily routine & encourages them to tap into the knowledge of their colleagues & to set performance improvement goals.
- Manage day to day staffing requirements, issues, and performance.
- Take ownership for driving own career development
- Achievement of objectives/milestones set out in the development plan
- PDP plans and performance discussions with staff
- Recommend and participate in the design and implementation of standards, tools, and methodologies.
- Share best practice, lessons learned and constantly update the architecture requirements based on changing technologies, practice, and knowledge.