Enterprise Architect

7 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa Collinson Full time
Job title : Enterprise Architect Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town Deadline : December 19, 2024 Quick Recommended Links
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Purpose of the job

  • We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Enterprise Architect to join our Architecture and Assurance team to align our technologies and initiatives with business capabilities and our strategic goals. 
  • The ideal candidate will have a strong background in business and data architecture including data modelling, with a proven history of designing and implementing enterprise-level solutions across business domains. This role requires an analytical thinker who can align technology with business goals and drive innovation within our organization.
  • You will represent and support the architecture function and its responsibilities within a globally managed, yet geographically dispersed team that designs platforms and solutions for specific market needs whilst enabling global capability and re-use.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring alignment with business strategies and goals.
  • Design scalable and maintainable architectures, including complex data models, integrations, and custom application that fit the Enterprise Architecture framework.
  • Shape and vision of the products and services roadmap with specific representation of enterprise architecture requirements.
  • Lead the design and implementation of data architecture and data modelling projects.
  • Identify and implement improvements to capability development and application performance, usability, and user experience.
  • Conduct regular architecture reviews to ensure compliance with established standards and guidelines. Peer review architecture designs and represent at the Architecture Review Board.
  • Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive continuous improvement and provide market technology expertise/knowledge and actionable insights to business leaders.
  • Develop and maintain documentation for architectural designs, processes, and policies.
  • Produce strategies for technology that meets business needs. Create, refine, and challenge patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps, and vision statements.
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to engineering and product teams on architectural best practices.
  • Participate in tenders and evaluate which apps/ products to use based on cost benefit analysis and research.
  • Be a stakeholder for global tech initiatives, drive collaboration across divisions and provide guidance and direction to junior team members.
  • Be articulate and conversant in the end-to-end technology ecosystem within the organization and offer commercially viable recommendations to business problems using the available toolset.

Knowledge, Skills, and experience required

  • Must have recent experience designing and developing Enterprise and Data Architectures.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in architecture and development.
  • Architecture certifications (e.g., Application Architect, System Architect).
  • A proven track of leading projects from idea inception through to delivery
  • Experience working with Architecture frameworks – TOGAF or others.
  • Experience collaborating with global teams in an agile methodology.
  • A proven record of building relationships and creating change.
  • Understanding of the modern technology landscape, how to apply this to business problems and identify the limitations and localisations.
  • Experience onboarding and rolling out new platforms and technologies, as part of transformation initiatives, ideally one or more of the following: Cloud, Mobile App, Microservices
  • Ability to visualise services and present them to other technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to work in a challenging environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to design and implement innovative solutions.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Person Specification

  • Enthusiastic about the automation landscape and presenting ideas back to senior stakeholders.
  • An enterprising spirit
  • Effective communicator across different lines of business functions
  • Always challenging ambiguity
  • With strong character and presence - capable of handling and challenging tough and demanding stakeholders in a respectful and productive manor
  • A creative, innovative person that likes getting stuck in and is keen to learn and grow.
  • Able to build strong relationships across the organisational structure.
  • Nimble, open-minded thinking, flexible on process but committed to impact.
  • Initiative-taker, able to work with minimal supervision and oversight, able to overcome challenges independently.
  • Lifelong learner – always identifying areas of improvement and staying up to date with evolving technology and business landscape

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