Solutions Architect at Andela

Responsibilities:

• Designs enterprise solutions and capabilities that are scalable, adaptable, and in synchrony with the ever-changing business needs in alignment with the architecture strategy, policies, standards and procedures set by the Group Chief Architect
• Contributes to a reduction in IT complexity, enforcement of discipline and standardization of define architecture standards in order to ensure better interoperability of the systems and services
• Leads the design of innovative enterprise solutions, working closely with Programmer Analysts, QA, and other stakeholders to get high-quality products and features.
• Documents and communicates architectural requirements for solutions and capabilities.
• Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and working with technical staff to recommend solutions to improve it.
• Resolving technical problems as they arise.
• Providing supervision and guidance to development teams.
• Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.
• Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.
• Assessing the business impact that certain technical choices have.
• Providing updates to stakeholders on product development processes, costs, and budgets.

Required skills:

• 5+ years of experience in Architecting enterprise solutions
• Experience with architectural frameworks(TOGAF, Zachman, FEA, or hybrid of multiple frameworks)
• Good understanding of DevOps and CI/CD practices. Experience on
• these items is mandatory
• Experience in designing solutions for hybrid environments (onpremise and cloud). Cloud certification is an added advantage
• Good experience with OS like Linux, AIX, Solaris, Windows) and databases (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres and
• NoSQL DBs)
• Excellent leader

Nice to have skills:

• QA Experience