We’re looking for an innovative Solutions Architect!
You would be the person who analyses what technologies are available and suggest, design and implement creative and pragmatic technical solutions to achieve our business goals.
Become part of our innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team and shape the future of our retail landscape! Our architecture team includes experts in enterprise architecture, domain and solution architecture. We utilise industry leading technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.
ResponsibilitiesSolution Design
- Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services
- Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth
- Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions
Understanding non-functional requirements of a solution and mitigating risk by complying with governance and legislative requirements
Architecture Design
- Participate in selecting the most appropriate technology (platform, tech-stack, framework) for a solution, as well as balancing architectural guidelines of the corporate environment
Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy
Keep abreast of the latest changes & trends in IT architecture to provide insights and recommendations to the business in regards to optimisation, improvements or adoption of new tools and technologies
Business Domain
Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment
Contribute technical thought leadership to influence discussions and decision-making within the group
Team development
Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers to become Solution Architects
Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems
5 or more years’ experience in IT solutions development and 3-5 years experience in solutions architecture
Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, analysis and design, system architecture design, inquisitive, methodical, analytical, critical thinking
Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models
Thorough understanding of EComm business domain; retail understanding advantageous
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems
- 5 or more years' experience in IT solutions development
- 3-5 years experience in solutions architecture
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Analytical and critical thinking skills
What We Do
Mr Price Group Limited is an omni-channel, fashion value retailer. The Group retails Apparel, Homeware and Sportsware and is one of the fastest growing retailers in South Africa. Our History: 1885 - The first John Orrs store opens 1934 - The first Hub store opens 1952 - John Orrs is listed on the JSE 1967 - Acquisition of two Miladys stores 1986 - Laurie Chiappini and Stewart Cohen, together with BOE, acquire a major shareholding in John Orr Holdings 1987 - The first Mr Price store opens 1991 - Laurie Chiappini and Stewart Cohen acquire control of the Group from BOE 1993 - Launch of the Mr Price Group Share Partnership Initiative 1996 - Acquisition of Galaxy & Co. and Sheet Street 1997 - Alastair McArthur is appointed as CEO 1998 - Mr Price Home launched 2000 - Mr Price opens stores in Botswana and Namibia 2001 - Specialty Stores becomes MR Price Group 2005 - Over 100 million units are sold across the group 2006 - Sale of the Hub and Galaxy divisions 2007 - Launch of Mr Price Sport stores and Mr Price Franchising 2008 - Miladys wins the Orange Index award for excellence in customer service 2008 - Mr Price Apparel is voted the most loved and most frequented retail apparel brand for the first time 2008 - This year Mr Price Home is voted the most loved and most frequented homeware retailer 2011 - Retail sales exceed R10 billion and profit attributable to shareholders exceeds R1 billion for the first time 2011 - The group celebrates the 25th anniversary of change in control, recording a CAGR share of 25.3% and headline earnings per share of 23.5% over this period 2012 - First Corporate owned Mr Price store opens in Lagos, Nigeria 2013 - Mr Price launches its online store
