General DescriptionThe SA is responsible for management of all activities involved in the development and maintenance of any aspect of a project’s Solution Architecture. The SA participates in object modelling.
n The linkage to technical design through Solution Architecture activities is vital for continuously evolving and maintaining the Enterprise Architecture
o Defines and documents the solution and technical architecture of the data warehouse/BI, including the physical components and their functionality
o Evaluates, selects, tests and optimizes hardware and software products
Key Responsibilitieso Assesses current technical architecture
o Participate in all EDW projects to ensure the solution delivery with full alignments to the guiding principles and policies
o Provide subject matter expertise in the technologies used to deliver EDW
o Ensure BI is inline with the current technology trends and level
o Support capacity planning, disaster recovery, and assist IT Infra in architecture planning and design through
o Estimates system capacity to meat near-and-long term processing requirements
o Writes specifications for application servers, database servers
Key Skillso Strong conceptual, analytical and communications skills
o Strong technical design skills
o Understanding of the capabilities of vendor infra structure products in particular BI area, including Teradata, SAS, BO, CRM solutions
o Knowledge of data warehousing architectural approaches
o Leadership abilities
Key Deliverableso Technical architecture documents
o Hardware and software product recommendations
o Cost estimates for technical components, regular performance and capacity planning audits
If you have the profile and experience to fill this position, please send your updated resume in Ms Word format, quoting theReference Numberto sean.w@mafoi.com. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
