Vacancy title:
IT Systems Architect
Jobs at:
First QuantumDeadline of this Job:
Monday, February 24 2025
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, February 11 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Job description:
Overall Job Purpose
• Collaborate with business and IT teams to scope projects and define detailed architectural requirements aligned to region and group standards.
• Assess and analyse business requirements, current state environment and technology choices, to evaluate solution alternatives that meet sponsor needs.
• Participate in the development, maintenance and governance of IT solutions across site, ensuring they meet the current and emerging strategic needs of the business.
Key Job Responsibilities:
• Define, develop, and confirm business requirements and solution designs for stakeholders consistent with the business vision, priority and strategy.
• Convert business requirements into solution designs, including systems integration, service-based architecture, and enterprise application architecture.
• Deliver solution design and implementation estimates and lead software product selection, leveraging knowledge from other SME practitioners.
• Perform and supervise solution/tool selection, functional requirement gathering, solution design, application configuration, and testing.
• Assess design, applications, and systems alternatives, and provide recommendations to business and IT stakeholders.
• Develop and complete solution design documentation, technical proposals, descriptions, and content to describe system capabilities.
• Create documentation and visual representation of the end-to-end solution architecture for any new IT implementations across site.
• Provide expert guidance on IT solutions and suppliers that meet the business need.
• Manage the relationship with all stakeholders to ensure that the solution is in line with business requirements.
• Identify change requirements and the components involved: hardware, software, applications, processes, and people.
• Supports solution installation, configuration, customization, testing, and deployment, including preparation of test scenarios.
• Participate in and support any procurement-related activities on system implementation, vendor selection and software product selection.
• Ensure adherence to established regional and group strategies, standards, and policies and suggest changes where appropriate.
Key Job Attributes:
• Ability to effectively communicate with personnel at all levels of management
• Critical thinking
• Conflict management
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a pressured and deadline-driven environment
• Detail-orientated with the technical aptitude and ability to perform tasks accurately and comprehensively
• Commercial astuteness and experience in negotiating with vendors
• Excellent presentation skills
Experience & Qualifications:
• Minimum 6 years hands-on experience in systems/solution design and implementation across various platforms, with a strong ability to work with different technologies and propose solutions.
• Background as a Business Analyst / Systems Analyst / Solutions Architect.
• Good understanding of network and data centre architectures in an IT/OT environment, and application development and support methodologies.
• Familiar with the principles of programming, databases, operating systems, networking, and software engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure systems that meet the requirements and expectations of the stakeholders.
• Mining industry experience will be advantageous
• Membership of ICTAZ.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 96
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Job application procedure
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