Solution Architect at Onafriq

The Role

• We are looking to hire a talented Solution Architect to define and integrate our company’s software architecture. In this role, you will be responsible for upgrading or defining new architecture systems to support future and current Java applications. You will also be involved in software design and the integration of all Java-based applications.
• To ensure success as a Solution Architect, you should have in-depth knowledge of software architecture, experience with network design, and high-level like Java programming skills. Ultimately, a top-class Solution architect can see the big picture needs of a company and design scalable architecture to handle the company’s current and future software application needs.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops the technical design documents, ensures proper handover of the technical design to developers(team) to code as per design
• Should be able to create a complete technical design for projects, making sure the design is extensible and scalable
• Should have played a Designer role(s) and must have designed a solution for the developers to build
• High level system architecture involving more than one system
• Assist development team in resolving technical problems
• Anticipate, identify, track and resolve technical issues and risks affecting delivery
• Assist with the design, build, rollout and run support for technology solutions
• Design and/or configure applications/tools to functional and technical requirements
• Participate in effort estimation for new project(s) technical solutions
• Design & develop reusable components and IP for the organization where possible
• Performing a QA review of applications/products built for the provided design
• Identify gaps in existing systems and suggest solutions for the identified gaps
• Quick learning of current market frameworks and tools to introduce in projects
• Assisting the software design team with application integration
• Meeting with technology managers and the design team to discuss the goals and needs of the company
• Generally, uphold the values of the Company

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Information Systems / B Sc Computer Science (or similar)
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• 3+ Years in Architecture / Design Solutioning
• 10 years overall experience within the IT industry
• Background projects experience – OOPS, Java, Development Projects, Data architecture (will be added advantage)
• TOGAF 9.2 / ArchiMate or relevant architecture certification will be a value add
• Experience in cloud design solutions preferably AWS and AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Architecture and solution design (UML, OO, SOA) is required
• Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Agile Methodologies
• Experience in Micro services development using tools like spring boot
• Experience with Apache Camel and Apache Kafka
• Experience with data architecture using either Open source or closed source technologies (ELK Stack , Apache Spark etc)

You will be a good fit if you have:

• Excellent technical skills, come from a software background and have proven development skills as there is a large hands-on element to this role
• Good documentation and diagramming skills and a desire to communicate and back up designs using documentation
• A strong passion for designing and seeing through the implementation of highly available and performant systems, including validating the implementation through extensive load tests and high availability tests
• Good communication skills