Job Description

Our Client a Global Tech firm is seeking a Software Systems Designer L2 to join their team in Sandton on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.

• Conduct system design activities
• Review detailed application, software, and system components across a variety of technology stacks
• Ensure that architectural solutions meet technical and functional requirements
• Review existing system architecture and recommend improvements
• Participate in engineering reviews to determine any ambiguities
• Investigate and scope change requests to determine the scale of work to be done and estimate the timeframe and input required
• Determine system loads and volumes as input into infrastructure requirements
• Ensure that proposed and existing systems architectures are aligned with the companys goals and strategies
• Enable the design and development of new systems and solutions
• Ensure that new systems and solutions conform to current system architecture and/or align to strategic system architectural direction
• Conduct architectural analysis, evaluation, and design of systems that support and seek to solve complex business and technical problems
• Enable and ensure that system architecture is delivered in the form of robust and scalable solutions to business problems and needs
• Identify, evaluate, and assess risks in order to mitigate them and eliminate any factor that may interfere or hinder the delivery of the architectural solution and dependent functional requirements
• Specify the solutions functional and technical requirements, and implementation phases required in order to deliver on and solve complex business problems
• Implement processes for integrating architectural solutions
• Implement architectural governance, standards, metrics for measuring, monitoring and improving architecture
• Implement and/or maintain the use of fitness functions to ensure architectural success
• Proactively identify potential problems that could be remediated by more effective architectural solutions
• Ensure team members understand system architectural implications of requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Sound business acumen
• Ability to effectively deal with stakeholders in challenging situations.
• Ability to navigate through complexity and ambiguity
• Strong understanding of system architecture, design, and delivery
• understanding of regulatory requirements and organisational standards including security
• Knowledge of the system design life cycle models
• Ability to design systems compatible with cloud computing architectures and selection of components
• Ability to design and select system components
• Planning and decision-making skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to use a variety of design tools
• Ability to problem-solve and apply critical thinking
• Knowledge of software development practices, including Agile and CI/CD
• Experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker/Kubernetes
• Proficiency in data security and privacy best practices.
• Knowledge of clean code concepts, design patterns. Test driven (TDD) and behavioural driven development (BDD)

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science or related etc.
• Net, Angular, Android, Front-End, Integration Technologies(REST, SOAP),iOS, Java, Java (JEE/EJB), Kibana, Service-Oriented Architecture Project demand needs MAUI, .NET, Angular, SQL, JavaScript expertise

Required Experience:

• Seasoned experience in similar IT roles, with a focus on system design / architecture engineering
• Proven working experience in a large-scale organisation
• Seasoned experience, judgment and drive to plan, make decisions and accomplish individual and team goals
• Seasoned experience with software development lifecycles
• Seasoned experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Seasoned systems and/or software development experience is essential
• understanding of cloud-based architectures, preferably in popular cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).
• Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, distributed, and high-performance systems.
• Seasoned knowledge of software design and architecture, ideally with experience dealing with large datasets.

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