Solution Architect - Design Office

Job description / Role

Job Description

The main purpose of the solution architect position is designing software solutions and providing technical leadership for software delivery teams, along with accountability for the technical acceptance of the delivered solution by the customer.

• Participates in vendor assessment and selection.
• Collaborates with the presales team in the proposed solution design during the bidding phase.
• Prepares the "team" Scope of Work (SoW) proposal write-up for bidding in software projects.
• Prepares "team" professional services sizing, assumptions, and prerequisites for bidding in software projects.
• Participates in customer demonstrations and presentations to discuss and convince the customer of our software solutions.
• Attends requirement gathering workshops and prepares business requirements documents.
• Prepares strategy documents for the project (i.e., configuration management strategy, migration strategy document, go-live strategy, etc.).
• Participates in and reviews the testing strategy document.
• Prepares high-level design documents, including end-to-end solution architecture and integration scenarios with the help of the technical architects.
• Reviews and audits development team and subcontractor technical documentation to ensure alignment with project scope and architecture guidelines.
• Audits the quality of the output artifacts (source code, scripts, configuration files, etc.) by reviewing randomly selected parts.
• Resolves technical conflicts between different team members during the construction phase by clarifying the scope and architecture and making decisions.
• Accountable for the technical acceptance of the solution by the customer.
• Participates in training activities for the customer.
• Engages in R&D initiatives.
• Coaches project construction teams in learning and practicing new technologies.

Personal Skills

• Passionate about coding and taking up challenges.
• Strong personal ownership and ability to set and meet high professional standards, with a flexible and responsive work style.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask and work under pressure.
• Excellent leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent command of English.
• Preferred to be TOGAF certified.

Technical Skills

• Preferred to have end-to-end architecture experience in IoT, smart city, and governmental projects.
• Experience implementing enterprise integration architectures.
• Experience designing integration solutions.
• Ability to define and communicate the "big picture" in terms of the overall integration solution (both functional and technical components) and break it down into smaller manageable work units.
• Understanding of the concepts of re-use and when to apply data modeling skills.
• Three or more years of experience writing code (such as, but not limited to, Java, C, C++, C#, VB.Net; databases like SQL Server or Oracle; and testing tools).
• Experience in multiple full release cycles.
• Three or more years in developing solution architecture.
• Advanced understanding of modern software development tools and methodologies.
• Advanced in developing and managing large solutions.
• Expert in database concepts.
• Advanced customer management skills.
• Expert in business analysis.
• Expert in multi-tier distribution technologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; influencing skills and ability to work effectively in a geographically dispersed team.
• Good demonstrated technical leadership.
• High-level and low-level design expertise.
• Expert in software sizing and planning.
• Expert in multiple business domains and industries.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

About the Company

Giza Systems, a leading systems integrator in the MEA region, designs and deploys industry-specific technology solutions for asset-intensive industries such as the telecoms, utilities, oil and gas, hospitality and real estate among other market sectors. We help our clients streamline their operations and businesses through our portfolio of solutions, managed services, and consultancy practice. Our team of 1000 professionals are spread throughout the region with anchor offices in Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai, Doha, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Abuja, Kampala and New Jersey, allowing us to service an ever-increasing client base in over 40 countries.