IT Solutions Architect at Firstrand

Job Description

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Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

The purpose of the role is as follows:

To lead Business Technology in the Business Unit/Functional Area with the purpose of supporting and enabling the realisation of business strategies and objectives primarily through the design of effective solutions.

To create and maintain architecture solutions and to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs within eTrading Technology.

Are you someone who can do the following:

Macro environment

• Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities and trends that would add value to the required architectural work
• Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business
• Prepare and share recommendations for process and systems improvements in relevant area of accountability. This includes the requirement to decommission legacy technologies
• Actively participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment (current and planned

Business alignment 

•      Partner with BT and Business stakeholders to create integrated roadmaps to enable business requirements delivery 

Enterprise architecture design

• Partner with Company and other BU architects to contribute to the creation and review of architecture capability strategy which meets the strategic requirements of the business
• Estimate potential changes to business requirements and processes, due to changes/ improvements made in information systems, data management practices, information management procedures, and/ employed software/hardware

Solution design

• Use appropriate tools and methods to contribute to the development of systems architectures in specific business / functional areas to improve the efficiency of system and business performance
• Produce systems and component specifications and translate these into detailed designs for implementation using selected products in support of business or systems changes. This includes the alignment of required documentation
• Provide learning and make suggestions on technical aspects of system development and integration

Architecture governance

• Monitor adherence to processes which support the prescribed architectural frameworks  and ensure delivery teams align to the required standards and methodologies
• Recommend appropriate interventions in own area of ways to improve architectural compliance. This includes BU/FA representation at relevant forums eg. Architecture Board, Cloud Steerco

Additional duties

• Evaluate current landscape and capability; evaluate internal IT functions, business development strategies, IT processes and Identify architectural gaps so that improvements can be actioned. 
• Support assessment of existing enterprise application portfolios and help envision and plan modernization roadmaps including architectural blueprints
• Articulate and define complex architectures in a simple way to stakeholders underpinned by a structured analytical approach and high quality Architectural Artefacts and Deliverables
• Ensuring architectural artefacts are well documented and maintained. 
• Work and collaborate with technology and business teams to ensure that the right benefit is derived from new and current architectures.
• Auditing compliance to enterprise architecture standards and ensuring that relevant actions are taken where there is non-compliance
• Architect both on-prem and cloud applications using reference architecture approaches supported by major cloud vendors
• Present and justify solutions/proposals to IT and Business Leaders from Mid Management to CXOs

You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:

• Required Qualification
• TOGAF Certification Advantageous
• Cloud Certifications Advantageous
•  Bsc or Bcom in Computer and information system related courses.  

Preferred Qualification (additional to minimum)

•      Postgraduate degree AND/OR relevant experience in a similar environment

Technical Knowledge/ skills and experience

• 3- 5 years IT Experience preferably focused on architecture. 
• Experience showing influence at senior levels across multiple jurisdictions. 
• Specific experience and demonstrable capability around the effective presentation of Architecture concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions.
• Demonstrable track record of delivering on projects that span multidisciplinary areas, preferably in Markets or Corporate and Investing Banking sector with Enterprise Architecture, Business and IT environments.
• Good overall knowledge of applications, integration, and data architecture frameworks and industry best practices.

Advantageous

• Understanding of low-latency and high throughput system concepts.
• Exposure to design of highly available systems – active/active, failover, replication.
• Familiarity with trading systems (e.g. Bloomberg, Murex) and trading integration protocols (e.g. FIX, gRPC).

  

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Job Details

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

29/09/25 Apply Now