Enterprise Architect

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Collinson Full time

Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,500+ lounges and travel experiences, including dining, retail, sleep and spa, in over 650 airports in 148 countries, helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception - from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1,800 global colleagues.

**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.

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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 enterp

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