Enterprise Architect

Job purpose:

Facilitate the development of future-state architecture and ensure its effective adoption. Provide and identify operational opportunities, overall direction, guidance, and definition of the enterprise architecture that effectively supports business strategies. Advocating and supporting the enterprise's IT Strategy, identifying and analysing enterprise business drivers, analysing the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, recommends solutions for improvement and development strategies for aligning IT to the business. Act as a trusted technology advisor to business in realising the business strategy for the relevant discipline. Responsible for the end-to-end view across both capabilities and/or Solution Architecture disciplines, ensuring alignment across relevant domains. Work as an advocate and liaise with Information Services and Technology operational teams and the Enterprise Architects researching trends.



Duties:

* Develop and regularly maintain a future-state Domain and/or ICT vision in line with the organisation’s Business and IT Strategies – as well as the roadmap for transforming between current and future Domain vision and/or ICT vision
* Govern the development and ongoing review and update of the organisation's Domain Principles
* Govern the Architecture Review Board and the regular meeting of this board to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with ICT Standards and Future State Vision
*Participate in Architecture Review Boards to ensure Solution Architecture alignment with Domain Principles, Standards and Future State Vision
*Governance of Innovation Ideation and the promotion of innovation ideas to Proof of Concept and Pilot Projects
*Work with the organisational teams to determine opportunities for improvement and define business requirements
*Ensure continuous alignment between architectural delivery and the operational implementation and integrity of IT systems
*Provide leadership and vision for the optimisation and rationalisation of ICT infrastructure – aimed at increasing capacity and/or IT cost savings and/or IT Service Levels
*Provide an Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence capability to the organisation
*Provide mentorship and coaching to all Architecture teams within the organisation
*Develop and regularly review and where necessary recommend updates to the organisation's Domain standards the organisation's IT Strategy and the ongoing maintenance thereof w.r.t. emerging technology utilisation
*Facilitate the organisation’s knowledge and understanding of current and emerging technology – and how it can be leveraged for maximum business benefit
*Calculate Business Cases for emerging technology deployment to meet business needs as directed by Business demand
*Facilitate regular Innovation Days and Innovation Workshops for a detailed understanding of emerging technology capability
*Assist in the development of Solution Architectures requiring Domain technologies and ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solution domains
*Identifies the risk of proposed change impact and develops mitigating actions to ensure Enterprise-wide solutions
*Monitor emerging trends and evaluate their potential impact on the broader organisation
*Ensure alignment across Architectural disciplines and Solutions domain
*Conduct Issue/Dispute resolution across Architectural disciplines
*Lead the achievement of Architecture Solution across Architectural disciplines
*Develop and conduct regular reviews and update the organisation's ICT standards, Enterprise Architecture and IT Domain Principles across all technology domains
*Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
*Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
*Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in the performance of roles and responsibilities
*Contribute to the company's Culture-building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.)
*Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
*Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems through agile thinking


Essential Qualifications – NQF Level:
* Advanced Diploma/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification:
* Honours or Masters Degree (or higher) in either Information Systems or Computer Science

Essential Certifications:
* TOGAF Certification, Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group)

Minimum Experience Level:
* 5+ Years’ experience in developing strategic IT plans/roadmaps and
* 10 Years’ in System design and development

Technical/ Professional Knowledge:
* IT Infrastructure Architecture
* TOGAF
* System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
* Computer Hardware and Software
* Operational Framework (ITIL)
* Knowledge of the broader IT domain and tactical IT requirements
* Specific technology of relevant to the domain