Senior Chief Enterprise Architect

The CeI continues to provide Enterprise Architect strategic planning innovation and good governance support services to the province.

CeI follows the approach below in order to achieve its strategic goal enablement (top down) this approach should be followed by the successful bidder in delivery the services:

Understanding the strategic goals and the support business architecture

Obtaining an understanding of how our information and data assets will be leveraged.

Determine the application landscape and roadmap required.

Identify the in place and required technology components.

Opportunity identication (bottom up) shall be facilated through portfolio management activities such as Application Portfolio Management (APM) where Applications are analysed categorised classified and managed through their lifecycle.

Departmental agility resilience and enablement will be supported by having timeous and relevant information sets on which to act form basis for a wide variety of decisions making.

• Develop and guide EA framework and standards.
  
• Develop EA vision and strategy.
  
• Establish an architect design authority and collaboration.
  
• Provide input into other ICT strategies and budgeting.
  

Requirements

• NQF 6 or higher tertiary qualifications.
  
• Must have a valid (not expired) IT architecture certificate.
  
• TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) v9 or later certification is preferred but would not be detrimental to the bidder should the resource not have a TOGAF certificate.
  
• Minimum of 5 years experience as an Enterprise Architect.
  
• Minimum of 2 years experience as a Solution Architect.