Solutions Architect, Payments, Transaction Banking (CIB Technology) – Standard Bank Group

Job Description

Company Overview

Standard Bank Group operates as a prominent financial services institution centered on the African continent, serving as a dynamic force globally while presenting enriching career paths and collaboration with driven industry experts. The organization caters to diverse clientele spanning individual consumers, enterprises of varying scales, affluent households, and major multinational corporations and institutional entities. The institution remains dedicated to fostering advancement across Africa, delivering genuine impact to patrons and local societies while instilling meaningful direction for professionals.

Role Purpose

The appointee will establish, construct, and sustain domain architectural frameworks and blueprints for designated commercial or technical sectors, formulating strategic pathways for solution execution that harmonize with overarching technological objectives to guarantee goal attainment. The incumbent will mentor project-level architects inside the specialized domain, supplying visionary guidance across the entire initiative. Responsibilities include validating that domain designs adhere to sanctioned reference architectures to maintain consistency with strategic blueprints, alongside formulating and contributing to foundational architectural standards.

Additional accountabilities involve embracing Agile practices and behaviors, advancing maturity on the Continuum spectrum by enhancing individual and collective capabilities for continuous delivery. The professional will unite team members toward a unified technical vision for solution pathways in partnership with the Product Manager, steering the group toward roadmap execution. The role entails dissecting intricate commercial challenges encompassing numerous software systems, infrastructures, and data repositories to propose optimal technology interventions. Furthermore, the specialist must effectively communicate technological vulnerabilities and consequences to interested parties within Client Solutions, Client Segments, and Domain Architectures.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates must hold a Post Graduate Degree in Information Technology. Requisite background mandates five to seven years within Enterprise Technology and Solutions Architecture, featuring solid comprehension of Agile frameworks, LEAN concepts, SCRUM mastery, and cross-functional collaboration. A tenure of eight to ten years managing platforms and operating systems is required. Furthermore, applicants need eight to ten years of comprehensive background crafting creative technological solutions in environments like Authentication Systems, System, Platform, and Account Migrations, Enterprise Solution Architecture, Business Architecture, Information Architecture, Application Architecture, or Technology Architecture, complemented by a versatile skill set spanning multiple technical domains and market expertise. Equivalent tenure is necessary in technology spheres such as IT architecture, infrastructure, cloud engineering, software design, business analysis, DevOps, along with project and product administration. Behavioral competencies encompass communicating details, debating concepts, building proficiency, formulating strategies, and welcoming transformation. Technical proficiencies involve emerging technology tracking, IT architecture, internal and external technology landscapes, solution evaluation, and stakeholder coordination.

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