Pretoria: Enterprise Architect

About the Role

The Enterprise Architect will play a critical role in shaping the enterprise’s technology strategy, ensuring that it aligns with the organization’s business objectives and goals. This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned professional to lead or facilitate the establishment of architecture standards and policy, drive business solutions development, and ensure that the application and systems aspects of the enterprise architecture are driven by business imperatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate establishment of Architecture Standards and Policy
• Institute Enterprise Architecture Governance
• Lead or provide guidance on Business Solutions Development
• Ensure that the application or systems, data and technology aspects of the enterprise architecture are driven by the business imperatives of the organisation
• Understand and present immediate or tactical and strategic benefits of adopting a consistent architectural approach within the context of the clients business to help the client justify his investments
• Ensure architectural recommendations that are in line with the strategic vision for the enterprise and wider best practice
• Determine Enterprise Architecture policy and standards definition and evolution, working with PMO to coordinate project pipeline management
• Define and establish processes by which software and operating models are built
• Perform periodic enterprise architecture reviews to evaluate and address technology standards adherence
• Design and present Architecture concepts to various high level committee structures
• Author Enterprise Architecture documents for specific projects or programs clearly articulating goals, constraints, and rationale for all architecturally significant decisions
• Lead scoping and design sessions across cross-functional teams
• Lead the process of determining technical infrastructure design
• Consult with different groups to analyze and understand functional requirements, objectives, desired features, and overall user experience
• Collaborate on technical reviews of applications to assess the quality of their solution
• Perform application portfolio rationalization
• Analyze, define, and document system architecture and design for data, workflow, security, hardware integration, operating system environment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks and controls, and outputs
• Identify key components and requirements necessary to ensure that architecture of the integrated environment can reach maximum levels of availability, efficiency, scalability and security
• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, standards and procedures and processes
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies
• Act as a champion to help all facets of the development enterprise (hardware, software, integration) to understand and adopt these standards and policies
• Collaborate in Enterprise Architecture planning initiatives to arrive at: Current state architecture. Client state architecture. Risks & constraints. EA policy and standard definition
• Engage relevant peers from other disciplines or domains during implementation of Solution Architecture/Design
• Evangelize and syndicate high-level Enterprise Architect strategy across the enterprise and to the Companys key stakeholders
• Provide direction and management to ensure that enhancements and modifications to the system adhere to all System and Business Development Methodology and Quality of Service Standards to deliver a quality enhancement that meets business requirements
• Prepare and submit regulation reports as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Information Technology/ BSC Computer Science related qualification
• TOGAF certification
• ITIL certified will be an added advantage
• Certification in Business Process will be an added advantage
• Certification in Systems and Business Architecture will be an added advantage
• Professional Project Management certificate will be an added advantage

Salary & Benefits

Not specified