Key purpose:
The Enterprise Architects are focused on enabling business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritise current operational demands disruptions and opportunities with the longer term strategic vision of the organisation.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Identifying and analysing of the organisations Business drivers and business development strategies
- Analysing of the current IT ecosystem to detect critical deficiencies and Pain Points
- Recommending solutions for overall Business and Technology innovation and optimisation/improvement that will increase sustainability and prepare for future expansion
- Align with the organisations technology and governance strategies policies and standards or direct necessary changes to these
- Delivering transition views (models) that are an interim view in between the current state and a future state
- Ensuring that the architecture of the enterprise is optimised it is essential that all Architecture Domains (Business Architecture Data Architecture Application architecture Technology Architecture) integrate (and interoperate) in a costeffective manner with minimum effort and maximum benefit to the organisation
- Guiding the technology design patterns design constructs and the (reusable) solution building blocks that make up a Solution Architecture defining a conceptual Solution Architecture
- Keeping up to date with and having a clear understanding of the capabilities and benefits of new/emerging technologies in order to apply same in a business context
- Provide assistance in business case development (i.e. research data collection). Provide factual content to the feasibility studies that are needed for standard development projects and enhancements
Qualifications and experience:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Business Administration Engineering or a related discipline with an Information Technology focus
- 8 years of experience in IT with a minimum of two years in Business Process Design
- Project Management Certification preferable
- TOGAF Certification preferable
- Experience with process redesign methods and tools
- 5 years of demonstrated management / supervisory experience in system management