Solutions Architect

Job Purpose

To envision, lead and develop fit for purpose, integrated end- to end technical solutions across multiple technologies for the organisation, through inspirational technical leadership and visionary long-term thinking.  Provide leadership across multiple initiatives guiding engineering lead practitioners  to achieve product / programme alignment.

Job Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and resilient solutions for the Generic Lending Platform using Java 17, Spring Boot, microservices, distributed systems, metadata‑driven architecture, and modern integration patterns.
• Architect, optimize, and support containerized workloads on OpenShift, including CI/CD pipelines, observability, performance tuning, and adoption of container best practices.
• Design and govern REST APIs, SOAP services, Kafka/event-driven components, DB2/PostgreSQL data structures, JSON/XML schemas, and system resilience mechanisms to ensure reliable end-to-end platform behavior.
• Take proposed solutions through relevant governance forums and obtain acceptance for solutions from relevant specialists (domain or technology).
• Collaborate and communicate and obtain buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Decomposition of the solution and assisting with the scheduling/sequencing work and identification of resourcing needs.
• Flesh out designs and contribute to functional and non-functional requirements.
• Assist software designers with lower level designs.
• Troubleshoot issues relating to technical delivery.
• Design with a holistic, robust and sustainable mindset.
• Apply a product management mindset (long term thinking).
• Mentor and coach software engineering practitioners.
• Keep abreast of the technical landscape on how it fits together.
• Understand constraints and risk and make the necessary trade-offs.
• Influence and negotiate with key stakeholders.
• Craft the end to end solution taking into consideration: people, technology, systems and data.
• Future proof end to end solutions as far as possible within the organisation constraints.
• Continuously build and enhance the technical assets that are touched by the solution to ensure long term sustainability.
• Grow the engineering lead practice through contributing to the engineering lead chapter.
• Drive organisational alignment across areas of accountability 
• Provide coaching, mentoring and upskilling of others within area of expertise
• Support the achievement of the  business strategy, objectives and values
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise 
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

• BSc (Computer Science), BCom (Information Systems).
• Professional Qualification Level 6 (Look at new degree naming conventions)

Preferred Certifications

• Togaf Certification, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) or equivalent

Minimum Experience Level

• Min 8 Years experience in similar roles.

Technical / Professional Knowledge