About the position
Role description:
Provide architectural guidance to the selection and design of technology solutions to meet business requirements on modern data platforms. Perform design reviews and quality assurance tasks to ensure compliance with existing standards and technology strategy/roadmaps. Interact with third-party vendors to guide externally supplied services. Act as a specialist, providing expertise and direction to internal teams, and assisting with the design, configuration and implementation of solutions.
Key responsibilities:
Technical advisory: engage in Technical Architecture Review Board in a consultative function.
Requirements gathering: work with stakeholders to gather functional and non-functional requirements and document them in the requirements traceability matrix.
Solution design: create high-level and low-level solution design documents; select hardware, software and technology components; outline proposed solutions including architectural diagrams, components and interactions.
Collaborate closely with application and integration architects on solution design.
Architecture development: design overall architecture aligned with industry best practice and future requirements.
Integration planning: determine integration with existing systems; develop integration strategy, requirements and interface design specifications.
Technology evaluation: research and evaluate third-party technologies to integrate into the architecture or use as building blocks.
Security and compliance: ensure solutions meet security standards and compliance requirements; develop guidelines and assess security requirements based on client-aligned policies and authorisation needs.
Performance and scalability: conduct performance and scalability analysis and complete NFRs reports to assess business demand.
Cost estimation: provide cost estimates including hardware, software, licensing, implementation and ongoing maintenance.
Documentation: produce detailed technical documentation (architecture diagrams, configuration guides, operational manuals) and implementation roadmaps.
Maintain knowledge of industry trends and innovation, providing thought leadership on new technologies.
Create data models (conceptual and logical) to support application development and analytics.
Manage data integration: design and oversee ETL processes and data pipelines for seamless data flow.
Qlik Replicate, SSIS exposure and integration services on Azure Integration Platform.
Strong understanding of ODS, ODP, ODW and modern data warehousing architectures, including data lakes, supporting real-time and batch processing, analytics and reporting.
Experience designing medallion architectures.
Work closely with data engineers, developers, analysts and business leaders to meet operational and strategic data needs.
Establish and enforce data security protocols to ensure organisational and legal compliance.
Architecture experience on data platforms (Azure Databricks).
Design integrations to Syniti DSP and modern data platforms.
Define data ingestion, storage layers and operational data flows across the mining value chain.
Skill level:
Experienced (>8 years practical experience)
Education:
BSc (Comp Science) or equivalent experience
Exposure to:
Desired Skills:
- Systems Analysis
- Complex Problem Solving
- Programming/configuration
- Critical Thinking
- Time Management
