Technical Solutions Architect at Gurugeeks Royalty Limited

Gurugeeks Royalty is multinational conglomerate company which offers solutions in areas of IT/Telecoms, Catering Services, Music Production & Multi-Media services, Fashion Designing & Crafts, Automotive, Agriculture, Insurance and Career Development & Kingdom Empowerment. We are specialised in Information Technology and Electrical Power Systems & Control - (25 years of combined industry experience).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Technical Solutions Architect

Location: Lagos (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Hours: Mondays - Fridays (37.5hrs)

Details

• Are you a Solution Architect with a passion to deliver great customer experience? Do you have a particular interest and background in technical management with experience in architecting diverse large-scale solutions?
• Be part of the team that develops and runs our digital IT platforms, driving innovation in how we deliver to our customers and the rest of the business.
• We are looking for Solution Architects to own and be accountable for e2e designs across our IT/Telecoms Ecosystems.

Responsibilities
What will you be doing?

• You will often act as the point of contact for the customer to prove credibility and ability to execute.
• You will manage customer expectations/gather technical requirements, make sales proposals/ presentations to prospective and existing clients and deal with issues with regards to ongoing opportunities.
• Potentially considering new markets or clients to contact, based on your knowledge of both the products/services and their users.
• You will be delivering and assuring technical architecture artefacts for projects.
• You will regularly be steering and talking with stakeholders across the organisation to define technology change.
• You will be acting as the functional and technical expert for applications or a portfolio of related products and services.
• You will effectively manage and support other Solutions Architects/Software developers to deliver the designs for a portfolio.
• You will be working across key projects & programmes to design and deliver technology solutions with a clear view on strategic and tactical technology choices.
• You will provide technology governance to ensure that solutions are aligned to the IT and business strategies.
• You will assist in delivering technical solutions that provide business advantage to Gurugeeks through effective right time, right cost, and right solution design.
• You will play an energetic part in design reviews ensuring compliance to the target architecture.
• You will be presenting to the IT management team technology choices and recommendations.

Requirements
Who are we looking for?

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 3 years experience.
• You will enjoy designing the architecture.
• Have led architecture projects in areas of IT Infrastructure, Cloud Solutions and Telecoms.
• You will proactively seek identify capability gaps,
• Demonstrate commercial awareness. Understand IT/Telecoms pricing model
• You look for change by identifying areas of impact, highlight options, dependencies and conflicts and make recommendations to give the best overall solution.
• You will shape project direction by building relationships with customers and stakeholders, agreeing the correct course of action for specific projects or capability gaps.
• You will understand Business Strategy.
• You will love to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders.

Salary

• Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits, Pension.

What’s in it for you?

• An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays.
• We offer an extensive and flexible benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family.
• From our market-leading parental leave policies through to employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes we are committed to supporting you throughout your career with Gurugeeks.

Flexible:

• Gurugeeks flexible working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

Application Closing Date
15th December, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Safety Notice: To ensure candidate and employee safety, we are continuing with our virtual hiring and onboarding processes until further notice.
• Together we can: All offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.