Overview
Business Solutions Architect Jobs in Johannesburg at BankservAfrica
PayInc is a purpose-driven payments provider building on over 50 years of trusted history in South Africa’s payments ecosystem. Our mission is to connect people, businesses, and economies through secure, efficient and inclusive digital payments infrastructure and be a catalyst for financial inclusion and economic growth. From EFTs and cards to PayShap, PayInc provides the backbone that enables money to move safely across the economy. At our core, we exist to make great connections, empowering participation, enabling growth, and ensuring no one is left behind.
PURPOSE
The main purpose of the Business Solution Architect is to facilitate definition and planning of business, through the use of structured analysis, modelling and assessment methodologies. The Solution Architect creates clarity about the viability, feasibility and dependencies of a given initiative, identifies the merits and success criteria, and creates the boundary within which project scope will be defined.
- Internal management stakeholders
- External partnership stakeholders
- Business development teams
- Business project teams
- Contribute through facilitating alignment to business strategies in all initiatives
- Demonstrate innovative and pioneering thinking in area of expertise and translate this into business models, blueprints and business cases
- Deliver client or company specific projects in line with company standards and in agreement with line manager
- Design, analysis and modelling of business initiatives in service of organizational goals
- Reviewing, analysing, and evaluating ideas, projects and opportunities to develop new products, new technologies and business models
- Apply and utilize business modelling methods to ensure results-oriented deliverables in a way that can be recreated and used as a corporate knowledge resource available to project level
Initiatives as executive decision making
- Creating business architectures and models demonstrating how products, operations and systems interoperate within the organization
- Conduct analysis to determine best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement, systems enhancement, user training, and/or software procurement
- Preparing new business and new product ideas for evaluation and business case estimation
- Broad-based organizational participation in initiative design and facilitation
- Evaluate pre-project initiative impacts and escalate issues and risk appropriately
- Collaborating across business segments to perform analysis and modelling
- Working with technical and business teams to perform analysis and modelling
- Determine and manage business architecture standards and principles, ensure solution developed across the organisation are aligned to the architecture standards and principles, leverage common
solutions and services, and meet financial targets (cost and benefits)
- Apply and utilize appropriate methods to ensure results oriented deliverables in a way that can be recreated and leveraged as intellectual capital
- Evaluate and present information that will facilitate effective decision-making through written and oral communication materials that effectively summarize findings with recommendations
- Continuous alignment between business and information technology
- Functions as a liaison to Business and IT partners in order to gain a broad understanding of industry trends and innovations, and their impact on technology
- Work with the business to integrate capability planning and roadmaps into their strategic planning and project implementations
- Collaborate with business leaders, providing input and capability information as inputs to develop business case for initiatives
- BComm or BSc Informatics; Business Analysis Diploma; other degree with focus on statistics and data analytics
- Microsoft Office Suite familiarity
- Visio and related modelling tools
- Business and payments knowledge
- Business Model development
- Value Proposition Development
- Operating Model Development
- Engagement Model development
- Value Chain analysis
- Capability and functional architecture development
- Familiarity with BPMN, TOGAF and related syntaxes
- Business and IT fluency
- Research and analysis skills
- Writing, speaking and presentation skills
- Self-management, planning and work management
- Design thinking
- 5-7 years payments and payment processing experience
Title: Business Solutions Architect
Company: BankservAfrica
Location: Johannesburg
