Senior Solutions Architect at Alfred and Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer's needs. The three major arms are: Consulting, Recruitment and Training.

Alfred & Victoria Associates has become one of the most sought after Human Capital Development Organization in recent times. She is fast becoming the distinguished strategic partner required in all sectors of the economy, and also in the fast growing world of outsourcing which is now in huge demand in all profession.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Solutions Architect

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• We are looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership in the development, operation, and ongoing improvement of complex, transformational digital services serving our client’s constituents.
• This role requires collaboration with business SMEs, product owners, and leadership to understand and influence business requirements, alongside leading business discussions and technical strategy. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in modern cloud technologies.

Responsibilities & Duties

• As a Senior Solutions Architect you will provide technical leadership in the development and operation of digital services, driving transformational initiatives.
• Collaborate with business SMEs, product owners, and leadership to understand and influence business requirements and capabilities.
• Engage in business discussions, facilitating the generation of standard business requirements, process documents, and data flows.
• Create architectural analyses and documents to guide development teams and inform best practices.
• Act as the technical authority in meetings, evaluate technical proposals from external suppliers, and make recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Lead the development of user-driven prototypes, identifying technical options and architectural approaches.
• Present and justify solution architecture designs to product and technology leaders and business stakeholders.
• Work with external vendors to ensure system architectures are robust, scalable, open, and secure.
• Advise on, manage, and implement agile delivery projects, providing guidance in agile technical delivery and software architecture.
• Research and prepare technical reports for executive management and manage special technology projects.
• Enhance and foster Architecture Governance Board activities and contribute to the technology strategy.
• Create reference architectures, influencing the architecture decisions to address business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Information Communication Technology, Engineering or Computer Science; Cisco CCNA/CCDA/CCIP/CCNP/CCDP/CWNA certificate
• PMI, Prince 2 or other industry equivalent
• Certifications in Cloud Technologies, SDN is considered a plus for this
• At least 10 years of experience in proposal development, designing architecture, and implementing provider solutions.
• Proven experience implementing IT solutions for business use, building or operating a data pipeline (ETL and Streaming)
• Experience in developing software using Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Solid understanding of cloud provider options and contemporary approaches to integration.
• Expertise in distributed computing architectures, including parallelism and concurrency control.
• Familiarity with Azure and other cloud technologies (AWS, GCP).

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong skills in collaboration, negotiation, coaching, mentoring, and building coalitions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Self-directed with the ability to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrable experience in delivering software products via agile methodologies.
• Knowledge in open-source technologies and the Hadoop ecosystem (EMR, Spark, Python, Hive, etc.).
• Familiarity with API, microservice, and integration concepts and technologies.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor team members and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: apply@alfred-victoria.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.