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Business Architect Security
Job Location:
Job Location:
Pretoria - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
10 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
8 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
To develop a security landscape aligned with the companys strategic projects and initiatives and to support the successful implementation of physical security infrastructure solutions and technologies.
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Job requirements
- Develop and maintain companys business architecture landscape including a security taxonomy and related security reference model.
- Direct the implementation of the business architecture consisting of the capabilities products and business services in support of the business strategy.
- Develop and implement the business capabilities in terms of key processes and information requirements.
- Develop and implement the company roadmaps to achieve target business/security architectures.
- Develop foundation reference- and strategic-level architectures for the department incorporating a strong security framework perspective that includes threat identification trust and domain frameworks.
- Develop the companys portfolio architecture and implementation roadmap to guide programme delivery.
- Define the target architecture to enable the Group Security Policy and Group Security Strategy by documenting the current landscape and conducting a gap analysis between the current and future state (as-is baseline and to-be target).
- Govern the implementation of the roadmaps.
- Contribute to formulating translating advocating supporting and executing the business strategy to achieve the organisations targeted business outcomes.
- Develop diagnostic and actionable deliverables that help the business guide investment decisions in support of executing the business strategy.
- Ensure alignment between business architecture enterprise architecture solution architecture architecture principles and information and communications technology (ICT) standards to ensure standardisation and reduce risk.
- Make recommendations on key architecture decisions.
- Participate in the company groups business architecture and enterprise architecture governance structures.
- Ensure compliance with company policies procedures and other legislative requirements and ensure that risks within the function are identified assessed and mitigated.
- Take a proactive approach in identifying integration needs across the company group and work towards target architecture regarding business integration.
- Lead the analysis of business and operating models market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprises business strategy direction and architecture.
- Consult infrastructure project and product teams to ensure alignment with the business architecture and identify when updates are required.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Job requirements
- An Honours degree in BCom Informatics BSc Computer Science BSc Engineering or a related field supplemented by industry-specific certifications or an equivalent qualification
- Certification in Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
- Certification in The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF); and
- 810 years relevant experience in Business Architecture and/or Domain Architecture with at least 5years in a Security Business Architecture environment.
- Business modelling and capability mapping
- Business attribute profiling
- Business service design and management
- Threat and risk analysis methodologies
- Architecture principles including the development of architecture designs views and viewpoints
- Building block design and architecture building blocks
- Solution modelling and architecture design
- Benefits analysis and value-realisation assessment
- The application of enterprise and security architecture frameworks and methodologies including SABSA
- Security frameworks standards and best practices including ISO 27000 series NIST and related industry standards
- Architecture modelling tools and notations such as ArchiMate UML and BPMN
- Establishing maintaining and populating architecture repositories; and
- Systems integration and the management of complex parallel-processing environments.
Required Experience:
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