Solution Architect – Marketing and Communications

About the role

Standard Bank Group is looking for a Solution Architect for its Marketing and Communications area in Gauteng. The architect develops, designs and maintains the solution architectures for marketing and communications, working closely with business stakeholders to align technology with business outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, design and maintain the solution architectures for Marketing and Communications
• Take part in defining higher-level functional and non-functional requirements
• Analyse technical trade-offs and determine the major components and subsystems
• Define the interfaces and collaborations between components
• Safeguard the strategic alignment of technology architecture with agreed business outcomes

Required profile

• TOGAF 9+ certified Solution Architect
• 8 to 10 years of Solution Architecture experience
• 3 to 5 years of hands-on Azure and/or Salesforce Marketing Cloud architecture or engineering experience
• At least 2 years of data architecture exposure in complex customer and/or employee data environments
• Strong cross-platform integration experience, especially with SAS solutions

Required skills

• Design scalable, secure architectures supporting digital marketing and customer and employee engagement platforms
• Stakeholder management (IT)
• Information technology architecture and emerging technology monitoring