Solutions Architect

Exciting Opportunity for a Solutions Architect at Entelect

Elevate your career at Entelect, where we prioritise people and nurture a culture of growth, collaboration, and innovation.

Join a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment that encourages versatility, and provides individual attention to career development, including intentional and regular one-on-ones with leadership.

Tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact alongside passionate professionals who inspire and support each other.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Delivery:

• Leveraging your expertise to develop complex, enterprise applications for leading organisations globally.
• Leaning on your deep understanding of technology frameworks; when they should be used, which are beneficial and what their pitfalls are.
• Engaging in various stages of the SDLC, from system design to analysis, scoping, and estimation.
• Researching innovative technologies and implementing them in projects to drive innovation.
• Navigating complexity in enterprise environments and effective at collaborating with a technical audience to define the direction of a project.
• Delivering premium, high-quality code, documentation, diagrams and presentations.
• Not only relying on experience but having a broad awareness of tools and technology being used in industry. Have to be comfortable shaping solutions from the entire toolkit, suspending personal preferences in favour of a balanced outcome.
• Experience working with Cloud solutions and using Cloud Native services in solutions.

People:

• Demonstrating maturity, motivation, and leadership in the workplace.
• Championing change within the team and fostering a collaborative culture.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle complex business challenges, driving continuous improvement.
• Leading and driving technical decision-making within your team.
• Mentoring and guiding the people around you towards successful delivery and technical excellence.
• Engaging with Entelect’s broader management team on relevant industry trends and setting the benchmark through work done at customers.

Customer:

• Building strong relationships and understanding customer needs to deliver impactful solutions.
• Managing customer expectations and identifying opportunities for service improvements.
• Ensuring compliance with data security and industry regulations
• Driving technical discussions, best practices as well as improving the technical landscapes across your customer’s projects.
• Providing trusted advice and making use of your ability to gain buy-in and negotiate with customers.
• Understanding how the business and the technology can combine to add true value to your customers.
• Building on Entelect’s reputation within the customer environment.
• Engaging with executives and senior technical audiences at customers. Incredibly selective and articulate in communicating concepts, choices and recommendations to senior audiences.

What We Need from You:

• A bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, or related fields.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience as a software engineer in an enterprise environment.
• A solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals and commitment to clean code and best practices.
• Broad and deep technical knowledge in your craft.
• Cloud experience in Azure, AWS or GCP. Understanding of cloud native architectures as well as on premise and how they differ.
• Ability to build, architect and design applications within an enterprise environment.
• Mastery of various technologies with the agility to adapt to new frameworks.
• Flexibility to work across a variety of different environments and tooling.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with a drive for continual improvement.
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passion for delivering well-crafted solutions, systems, and services.
• Hunger to continually improve those around you through mentorship and guidance.
• Pro hybrid working model working from the office on average 2 - 3 times per week.

What You’ll Get from Us:

• A competitive compensation package with twice-yearly salary increases and guaranteed bonuses.
• Tenure-based loyalty leave.
• Access to employee wellness programs and rewards for professional development.
• Commission incentives for successful business development leads and employee referrals.
• Hands-on support from leadership through regular one on ones and quarterly reviews.
• Continuous development programs offering training in leadership and technical skills.
• Exposure to enterprise projects across multiple domains and problem spaces for South Africa’s most esteemed organisations.

*Popular but not limited to

• Frontend techs: Angular, React, Vue, Blazor, Native and Cross platform mobile
• Databases: Relational and No SQL

What To Expect from the Recruitment Process:

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as efficient as possible, keeping you informed every step of the way.

• The first step is an initial conversation with our talent team to get to know you better and introduce you to Entelect and all that we have to offer.
• The next step will be a 1.5-hour in-person technical interview at one of our offices where you will meet some of our leadership team.
• Following the technical interview, we will invite you back for an in-person case study presentation where we will give you the opportunity to showcase your leadership skills.
• Finally, if we are both aligned, we wrap up the process with salary discussions and present you with an offer of employment.

• A bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, or related fields.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience as a software engineer in an enterprise environment.
• A solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals and commitment to clean code and best practices.
• Broad and deep technical knowledge in your craft.
• Cloud experience in Azure, AWS or GCP. Understanding of cloud native architectures as well as on premise and how they differ.
• Ability to build, architect and design applications within an enterprise environment.
• Mastery of various technologies with the agility to adapt to new frameworks.
• Flexibility to work across a variety of different environments and tooling.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with a drive for continual improvement.
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Passion for delivering well-crafted solutions, systems, and services.
• Hunger to continually improve those around you through mentorship and guidance.
• Pro hybrid working model working from the office on average 2 - 3 times per week.

• A competitive compensation package with twice-yearly salary increases and guaranteed bonuses.
• Tenure-based loyalty leave.
• Access to employee wellness programs and rewards for professional development.
• Commission incentives for successful business development leads and employee referrals.
• Hands-on support from leadership through regular one on ones and quarterly reviews.
• Continuous development programs offering training in leadership and technical skills.
• Exposure to enterprise projects across multiple domains and problem spaces for South Africa’s most esteemed organisations.

*Popular but not limited to

• Frontend techs: Angular, React, Vue, Blazor, Native and Cross platform mobile
• Databases: Relational and No SQL