Solution Architect

Solution Architect

We are looking for world-class talent to join a crack team of engineers, product managers and

designers. We want people who are passionate about creating software that makes a difference to

the world. We like people who are brimming with ideas and who take initiative rather than wait to

be told what to do. We prize team-first mentality, personal responsibility and tenacity to solve hard

problems and meet deadlines. As part of a small and lean team, you will have a very direct impact on

the success of the company.

As a Solution Architect this is what you’ll do:

- Lead solution-driven discussion for Digital and Data Products
- This role will include preparation of product architecture deliverables based upon product

architecture standards, creating conceptual product Architecture views, current state gap

analysis and target state product architecture views
- Understand and evaluate existing and future state product objectives and ensure target

state architecture alignment is cognizant of the Digital and Data business capability needs
- Create product architecture models demonstrating how products, operations and systems

interoperate within the organization
- Conduct analysis to determine the best path for solving business problems/opportunities

that may include process improvement, systems enhancement, user training, and/or

software procurement
- Ensure solutions developed across the organization are aligned to architecture standards

and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and meet financial targets (cost and

benefits)
- Provide overall direction, guidance and definition of product architecture to effectively

support business strategy
- Review, analyse, and evaluate ideas, projects and opportunities to develop new products,

new technologies and business models for various business segments
- Assess business and technical functionality to support build, buy, or partner decisions
- Provide professionally designed solutions based on requirement analysis.
- Ensure a swift and smooth delivery of agreed services.
- Collaborate with Product Management to translate technical objectives/deliverables to a

project plan.
- Translation of functional and non-functional requirements into a solution design document.
- Technical sign off on the implementation project to ensure that work done confers to best

practices and delivers on functionality

way that can be recreated and used as a corporate knowledge resource available to project

level initiatives and executive decision making

development, tool suite selection and design and methodology development
- Coaching and mentoring engineers in architecture best practices
- Operate in a collaborative manner by guiding technical discussions to help reach a

consensus; once a decision is made, clearly communicates and backs that decision
- Regularly present the latest architectural decisions and direction via documentation and

presentations to the rest of the Product Development team
- Guide software development and quality engineering team to rigorously improve inline

service scalability, performance and robustness;
- Develop new product or feature prototypes for proof of concept (POC);
- Take hands-on development tasks on strategically important projects;
- Establish best practice across multiple engineering teams;
Job requirements
- Solid Computer Science fundamentals, excellent problem-solving skills.

least one well-known successful product, ideally from inception to deployment;
- Combined experience of product development and architecture/design.
- Experience as a Full Stack developer with hands on experience in Technologies such as

NodeJS, ReactJS, NextJS, Typescript, Golang, Python, Java, Kotlin, Android, Graphql,

Elasticsearch, Redis, Distributed Computing
- Must have true startup spirit and be willing to wear multiple hats, including hands-on

prototyping, architecture and software development work. Must be an strong advocate of

leading by example
- Experience in a software design and architecture role, ideally in a SaaS based product

organisation
- Experience communicating architecture direction and decisions through presentations and

clear architectural diagrams to engineering / product groups
- Previous career track of progressive growth from software engineer, technical leader to

software architect, with thorough hands-on development experience. Strong advocate of

test-driven development methodology.
- Sound knowledge of various operating systems and databases.
- Experience in customer journey mapping, product roadmaps, competitive analysis ,and

product architecture.
- A solid understanding of industry-wide technology strategies and best practices.
- Experience solving challenging business problems with innovative enterprise solutions

aligning business needs to IT capabilities.
- Experience with business analysis and process impact analysis.
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speak