Job purpose:
To 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, recommending improvement solutions and developing strategies for aligning IT to the business. Act as a trusted technology advisor to businesses 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:
- Facilitate priority setting, project selection and integration in the organisation by providing guiding principles and architecture
- Ensure alignment with emerging Technologies and possible recommendation of new technologies
- Deliver business tasks according to the level of expertise to meet financial objectives
- Address client needs through leading phrases of projects or consulting to projects and business leaders across a variety of Architecture disciplines
- Build professional relationships lead and influence all disciplines of architecture
- Build and maintain relationships within the enterprise and the larger field of specialty
- Lead the achievement of architecture solutions where an understanding of all disciplines is required
- Monitor and evaluate competitive offerings that could change the domain landscape, affect multiple domains (portfolio of solutions domains) or the broader organisation
- Identify the business impact of change and the risks associated
- Integrate the change impact into business recommendations and strategic planning
- Adjust recommendations by considering the impact of new initiatives on market perception
- Enable enterprise-wide solutions to integrate well with existing practices by developing mitigating actions and change strategies
- Consider not only the optimising of the system but also the long-term viability of the system
- Build models around future scenario planning
- Optimising the architecture strategy across various families or portfolios of applications or products in the enterprise by making an enterprise viewpoint
- Effect multiple domains create new domains, or change the landscape through the development of position papers
- Integrate the key principles and issues to build enterprise-wide solutions
- Apply disciplines in a variety of projects in relevant solution domains and across multiple business areas
- Combine multiple perspectives from experience in various roles on multiple developments and architecting projects
- Considers enterprise-wide relevant best practices within the larger financial industry and global economy
- Ensure alignment to the newest trends by monitoring emerging trends and evaluating their potential impact on the broader organisation (The next big things)
- Deliver on work tasks for which the impact of the work can only be determined 3 – 5 years later
- Move the system towards the desired future state through consideration of future scenarios, the macro environment and an understanding of present operational requirements to identify underlying patterns in vague, ambiguous information
- Make judgements based on hypotheses, future scenarios or educated guesses
- Provide advice to the business across all disciplines
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
- Stay abreast of developments in your 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:
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
Preferred Qualification:
- Honours or Masters Degree (or higher) in either Information Systems or Computer Science
Essential Certifications:
Preferred Certification
- TOGAF Certification, Information Technology Architect Certification (ITAC) (Open Group)
Minimum Experience Level:
- 15+ years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture
- 3 years experience as an Enterprise Architect
Technical/ Professional Knowledge:
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Research Methodology
- Decision-making process
- Business writing skills
- Cluster-Specific Operational Knowledge
- System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Unified Modelling Language (UML)
- Rational design toolset application
- IT Architecture
Behavioural Competencies:
- Building Partnerships
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Influencing
- Innovation
- Driving for Results