Architect (Senior) (JHB)
| Location | Cape Town South, South Africa |
| Date Posted | March 4, 2020 |
| Category |
Engineering
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| Job Type |
Full-time
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| Currency | ZAR |
Description
This client looks for high achievers who wish to build a career at a top international IT company.
Their typical applicant should not just be looking for a job, but should be seeking a career filled with opportunity, should enjoy the challenge of working towards stretch goals; and be willing to take every chance to grow on a technical and personal level.
Join an elite team.
Description
Responsibilities:
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- Providing technical leadership / accountability for design / implementation.
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- Ensuring technical viability of solutions and subsequent change requests, identifying, resolving and mitigating technical issues / risks.
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- Creating and/or validating work estimates / skills with task scheduling / resource requests.
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- Coordinating with development / test teams.
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- Managing technical customer interactions.
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- Guiding customer/s through the requirements gathering, designing and documentation process within a specific domain area while fitting within the OSS/BSS infrastructure.
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- Coaching / mentoring other project member.
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- Providing feedback to the solution engineering team for improvements, market trends and product issues.
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- Pursuing knowledge of upcoming product features as they are made known or released.
Profile
Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Business or equivalent education / experience required.
- 10 years' software development and application implementation experience.
- Senior design experience in UNIX and database applications.
- Telecommunications industry experience and in-depth knowledge of related products.
- Broad understanding of business technology, telecom networks, and data structures.
- Excellent analytical problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex problems that require complex methods or theories.
- Team leadership skills to exchange ideas and create a common understanding of project work from conception through issue resolution.
- Knowledge / experience in the following would a bonus:
- Technical project management experience.
- Agile methodologies experience.
