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Applications Architect

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Company Name:Executive Placements
Job Type:Full-Time
Description
Qualifications and Experience Required:
  • Matric plus NQF Level 7 Qualification in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • TOGAF Certification
  • 68 years of experience, this individual has worked on designing, integrating, and optimising applications across diverse industries.
  • The Application Architect is responsible for defining and maintaining the blueprint for enterprise applications, ensuring they align with business goals and IT strategies.
  • Proven expertise in application portfolio management, identifying redundancies, gaps, and opportunities for modernisation.
  • Designing interfaces, APIs, microservices, and integration patterns to support interoperability and scalability.
  • Strong knowledge of SOA, cloud-native applications, and middleware platforms, ensuring solutions are both flexible and sustainable.
  • Collaborate extensively with Business, Data, and Technology Architects to maintain cross-domain consistency and governance compliance.
  • Skilled in application modelling, process alignment, and system rationalisation, ensuring solutions remain adaptable to change.
  • Supporting Agile delivery teams, providing architectural guidance during development and deployment.
  • Translate business requirements into technical application designs that deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Proven track record of enabling organisations to achieve agility, innovation, and efficiency through well-structured application architectures
Key Responsibilities:
Architecture Blueprint & Alignment
  • Develop and maintain an application architecture blueprint covering 100% of core business systems, updated annually.
  • Ensure at least 90% alignment of application designs with enterprise strategies, data requirements, and technology standards
Integration & Interoperability
  • Define and govern application and system interfaces, APIs, and integration patterns, targeting 95% reuse of approved integration patterns.
  • Ensure all new applications support scalability and interoperability benchmarks (e.g., <200ms average response time for API calls under load testing).
Application Portfolio Management
  • Conduct biannual portfolio assessments to identify redundancies, cost inefficiencies, and modernisation opportunities.
  • Reduce application redundancies by 10% year-on-year and increase cloud-ready / modernised applications by 15% annually.
Collaboration Across Domains
  • Partner with Business, Data, and Technology Architects to deliver quarterly architecture review boards, ensuring 100% compliance with governance standards.
  • Document and track cross-domain decisions with a measurable closure rate of 95% on architectural actions within agreed time
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