Enterprise Architect

**Purpose**

The Enterprise Architect provides guidance, road maps, principles, standards and best practices. They are focused on enabling business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization.

**Responsibilities**

The Enterprise Architect plays a hugely significant role in shaping the ICT Strategy and its contents for the CIO.

**The Architecture Domains in Transnet span 6 domains**:

- Business
- Data/Information
- Applications
- Technology Infrastructure
- Integration
- Security

Deliver models(blueprint) that describe the current and future state of the enterprise

Identifying and analyzing of the organization’s Business drivers and business development strategies (to derive useful business context).

Analyzing of the current IT ecosystem to detect critical deficiencies and Pain Points.

Recommending solutions for overall Business and Technology innovation and optimization/improvement that will increase sustainability and prepare for future expansion.

Align with the organization’s 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.

**Oversight and Guidance of the Integration of the Architecture Domains**

Ensuring that the architecture of the enterprise is optimized, it is essential that all Architecture Domains (Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Application architecture, Technology Architecture) integrate (and inter-operate) in a cost-effective manner, with minimum effort and maximum benefit to the organization.

Provide vision and insight to proactively assist in defining the direction for projects

Guiding the technology, design patterns, design constructs and the (re-usable) solution building blocks that make up a Solution Architecture, defining a conceptual Solution Architecture.

**Deliver Innovation and Optimization**

**Business Case Development**

Aid 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**
- Bachelor's 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.
- TOGAF Certification.
- Experience with process redesign methods and tools.
- Three to five years of demonstrated management / supervisory experience in system management.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary
Contract length: 12 months

**Education**:

- Bachelors (required)

**Experience**:

- IT: 8 years (required)
- Business Process Design: 2 years (required)

License/Certification:

- TOGAF Certification (required)

Application Deadline: 2023/03/20