Business Architect Head

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa FirstRand Full time
Job Description

  • Manage expenditure planning and variances within approved budget parameters
  • Drive shareholder value through profitable and integrated frameworks, guidelines, and optimisation plans
  • Align, integrate, and innovate in area of speciality across the Business to enable the creation of integrated and specialised solutions and sustainable competitive advantage
  • Design and implement new or cuttingedge systems, solutions and processes and initiate innovations and changes aligned to business strategy
  • Set tactical and strategic goals that provide traceability through the organisation and are accurately mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance
  • Identify external entities such as customers, suppliers, partners, and external systems that interact with the business and their people, resources, and controls involved in the processes
  • Articulate the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units
  • Identify data shared across the Capability, Customer Segment or Product Pillar and broader FirstRand and the relationships between the data entities and considerations of the systemic effect of the business and technology processes on other business units within FirstRand
  • Develop and maintain an architecture roadmap
  • Align the architecture with other impacted Capability Architectures of the platform
  • Research business and industry trends to keep the architecture current in the group and aligned to industry trends where appropriate
  • Develop strategy and ensure alignment to business strategy and platform thinking
  • Identify, review, and guide solution architectures for implementation or consumption of the business
  • Act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to Information Technology, and data constraints to the business with equal conveyance regarding business strategy and Information Technology strategy
  • Provide business help and guidance and provide motivation to the technology team and support
  • Act as an agent for Enterprise change using business architecture to agitate, initiate action and challenge others via business designs and solutions, which drive requirements to the business operational architecture
  • Visualise and create highlevel models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
  • Assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings and articulate collective relevance to the organisation and to highpriority business issues
  • Negotiate tradeoffs between nonquality attributes, and then obtain technology buyin
  • Promote the architecture at all relevant levels throughout the Group to socialise or obtain required approvals
  • Establish appropriate organisational bodies and relationships to achieve relevant shared learning and collaboration
Drive business process standardisation and alignment through the various BUs to the business architecture model

Education and Experience

  • Engineering Degree or relevant NQF 7 level qualification
years' experience in a senior Business Architect role

Job Details

Application Closing Date

14/05/24
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