Durban - KwaZulu Natal
Looking for a new adventure in the new year? Become part of our innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team and shape the future of our retail landscape!
What to expect:
You would join an architecture team that includes experts in enterprise architecture, domain and solution architecture. We utilise industry leading technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.
Job Description
- You would be that person who analyses what technologies are available and suggest, design and implement creative and pragmatic technical solutions to achieve our business goals.
- Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services
- Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth
- Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions
- Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy
- Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment
- Be a thought leader to influence discussions and decision-making within the group
- Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers
- Thorough understanding of Omni-channel, ecommerce and retail business domains
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- 7-9 years' experience in software engineering or IT solutions development or 2-5 years experience in solutions architecture
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, analysis, system architecture design, inquisitive, methodical, analytical, critical thinking
- Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models
