WFS Solutions Architect: Cloud

Woolworths Financial Services | Full time

Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 01/28/2025

Woolworths Financial Services, or WFS as it is better known, is a Joint Venture with Absa Bank, that supports the Woolworths retail business by providing in-store credit inthe formof the Woolworths Store Card and offering value-added services including credit cards, personal loans and short-term insurance as well as life insurance linked to other products.

Main Purpose

The Solution Architect (Cloud) will be responsible for planning, maintaining and designing cloud solutions. He/she will have to translate business requirements into proposed architectural solutions across business units and business processes. Responsible for formulating the future cloud state architecture fora particular initiative and for providing a high level roadmap for the implementation of the cloud solution architecture.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Solutions

• Accountable for the creation of cloud architecture solutions to meet business requirements, in line with the IT strategy and architecture.
  
  Business requirements to be provided by the business analysis team.
• Collaborate and support the development of the cloud strategy and plan.
• Ensure that the outcomes delivered byprojects are consistent with the original cloud solution specified by IT e.g.supports the project manager to resolve technical issues during build.
• Work with the vendors, business analysts and system analysts to design cloud solutions
• Manage the relationship with our Cloud
  
  MSP and direction of our cloud strategy.

Subject matterExpertise

• Provide ad-hoc consultancy as required tosenior business stakeholders on matters relating to cloud solutions.
• This will involve provide specific content knowledge of WFS solution components.
  
  Although detailed SME input will be provided by vendors the Cloud Solution Architect with be required to co-ordinate this activity.
• Adding clarity to business requirements;challenging business requirements and demands to ensure high quality candidatesolutions are created.
• Thinking outside of the box to support the business in delivering its strategic objectives rather than just responding to a pre-defined request.
• Advising on supplier and cost options,and ensuring that the validity of the overall solution is fully represented andconsidered in any RFI/RFP process, or in the creation and evaluation of proofof concept solutions.

Methodology and Quality Assurance

• Work with the Architecture Review Board to consult onthe quality of the IT business solution and architectural soundness of thedesign.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve and streamline cloud business solutions
• Management of the Cloud Centre of Excellence with the focus on architecture governance.

• Strong architecture skills(TOGAF, UML, Archimate
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)
• Knowledge of one or morecloud programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e.,SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlangfunctional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
• AWS:
  Control Tower,Organizations, Landing Zone, Security Tooling (AWS Securityhub, AWSInspector, AWS Guarduty, AWS Detective, NGFW’s)
• AWS Identity and Access Management:
  Candidate needs to illustrate his/her understanding of the IAM Policy evaluation logic
• AWS VPC:
  Hub and Spoke Design with AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Site-To-Site VPN, AWS Client VPN, Security Groups
• AWS Resource Access Manager
• Network routing and DNS management, Route Tables, S2
  
  Sand Direct Connect, etc.
• Working within both Agile andtraditional waterfall environments
• Analysis and design
• Broad general IT knowledge.
• Good knowledge of traditionalinfrastructure and shifting toward cloud.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION

• TOGAF certification
• AWS/Azure certifications beneficial

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• 10 years IT experience
• 5 Years of solid cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)