over 5 years ago
South Africa (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the strategic architecture blueprint and roadmap.
- Design architectures for ongoing projects using repeatable and reusable patterns.
- Assist with project scoping, sizing, costing, and technical solution definition.
- Design and document API services, system integrations, security patterns, and relational databases.
- Support business analysts, project managers, and developers with Agile ceremonies and technical design sessions.
- Ensure software developers understand and comply with the architecture and provide technical mentorship.
- Evaluate technology choices against current conditions and future organizational goals.
- Communicate architecture clearly to stakeholders at all levels, including board members, business partners, administrators, and developers.
- Chair technical design sessions and balance scope, time, benefit, and cost trade-offs.
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 architectural viewpoint modeling, API service interface design and documentation, system integration design, security patterns, relational database modeling, and AS-IS/TO-BE modeling and documentation.
- Knowledge of REST/JSON, event-based architecture, API gateways, JWT, IAM patterns, cloud patterns, and containers.
- Familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, Angular, RabbitMQ, Git, Oracle, and MySQL is desirable.
- Experience with people management, project costing and sizing, stakeholder engagement, and Agile project methodology.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work at both conceptual and detailed levels.
- UML modeling, ArchiMate modeling, and an architecture-related qualification such as TOGAF are 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.