Solutions Architect
Business Unit: Discovery Employee Benefits
Function: Information Technology
About Discovery
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Discovery Corporate and Employee Benefits
Discovery Corporate and Employee Benefits is the first and only employee benefits provider to be shaping employee behaviour, creating healthier and wealthier workforces. It is an exciting business to be in as we reimagine the way retirement savings and life insurance is brought to companies and employees.
Key Purpose of the Role
The Solutions Architect is responsible for understanding and translating requirements, often abstract, converting these into the architecture and design, to best propose how software will be integrated and deployed into an existing technology stack to best utilize assets in context with providing a sustainable and working solution for the client/enterprise. The Solutions architect acts as the bridge between business and application architecture.
Areas of Responsibility
The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:
- Review, interpret and respond to detailed business requirements specifications (BRS) to ensure alignment between customer expectations and current or future ICT capability.
- Provide input to the strategic direction of technology investments to assist in the development of the enterprise architecture and maximize the return on technology investment.
- Define and design technology solutions within the agreed enterprise architecture, to assist the business in meeting their business objectives.
- Develop, test and implement technology solutions and report on delivery commitments to ensure solutions are implemented as expected and within agreed timeframes.
- Ensure that the solution architecture aligns with the roadmaps established by the enterprise architecture, and that it adheres to the enterprise architecture principles.
Personal Attributes and Skills
The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:
- Highly analytical
- Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
- Speed and accuracy
- Competent and reliable
- Willingness to learn and give ideas
- Self-Starter
- Deadline Driven
- Service oriented
Education and Experience
- Matric with Maths (essential)
- Must have tertiary qualification
- A Bachelor’s Degree in a related area such as Computer Science / Information Systems etc.
- Development background and domain knowledge
- Computer literate: Microsoft Office: Word, Excel and Outlook - advanced
- Keen knowledge of the insurance industry, trends and new developments (Advantageous)
Employment Equity
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
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