over 5 years ago
South Africa (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the strategic architecture blueprint and roadmap.
- Design architectures for projects and initiatives using repeatable and reusable patterns.
- Assist with project scoping, sizing, costing, and technical solution definition.
- Design and document APIs, system integrations, security patterns, and relational databases.
- Model and document current-state and future-state architectures.
- Communicate architecture to board members, business partners, system administrators, developers, and other stakeholders.
- Support analysts, project managers, and developers in Agile ceremonies and technical design sessions.
- Work with software developers to ensure code complies with the architecture and provide technical mentorship.
- Evaluate technical choices and balance scope, time, benefits, and cost.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience working in IT.
- At least 2 years of experience working in architecture.
- Strong technical development background.
- Experience with architecture viewpoint modeling, API service interface design and documentation, system integration design, security patterns, relational database modeling and design, and AS-IS/TO-BE modeling and documentation.
- Knowledge of REST and JSON.
- Familiarity with event-based architecture, Java, Spring Boot, Angular, RabbitMQ, Git, API gateways, JWT, Oracle, MySQL, IAM patterns, and cloud/container patterns.
- Ability to think at both conceptual and detailed levels.
- People management, project costing and sizing, and strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working with stakeholders at various organizational levels and using Agile project methodology.
- UML and ArchiMate modeling experience is desirable.
- An architecture-related qualification such as TOGAF is desirable.
About Ooba
Ooba is a South African home-loan originator and financial services group that helps homebuyers secure mortgage approvals, compare bank offers, and get pre-qualified. The company also sells related insurance, deposit protection, and home energy solutions through brands including ooba, evo, ooba Insure, ooba Power, and Buyers Trust. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Cape Town, it operates nationally and earns fees from mortgage origination and ancillary financial products.