Enterprise Solutions Architect Lead

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa FirstCarbon Solutions Full time

**Core Description**
- ** Key Deliverables / Primary Functions**
- Definition, implementation, and execution of the processes for the definition, maintenance, and conformance management of the Enterprise Architecture.
- Maintenance of the key Enterprise Architecture deliverables.
- Pre-sales, development of proposals, approaches, solution architectures, leading client briefings and workshops
- Assist client engagement teams with responses to market bids and commercial responses.
- Facilitate scoping workshops with customers and internal teams.
- Establishment and maintenance of contacts within clients/customers' business units and information system programs to understand business processes and business drivers, business requirements, solutions strategies, alternatives, etc., being considered and/or implemented.
- Enterprise Architectural leadership in the resolutions of inter-program and inter-project issues.
- Development of the Enterprise Architecture.
- Developing and Coordinating Enterprise Architecture Plans.
- Auditing compliance within the Enterprise Architecture standards.
- Serving as an advisor to senior business management on business information integration strategies.
- Provide expertise in TOGAF and Scaled Agile methodologies, training and providing leadership to other architects.
- Expertise in private and public cloud computing.
- Work with Framework, Security, and AppDev Engineering teams to rationalize and separate existing framework boundaries with non-framework components to ensure teams know how and where to focus their efforts.
- Develop a framework & common component inventory across the development code base identifying function and ownership.
- Identify, design, and deliver one net-new high-use common framework or component for use by the AppDev organization.
- Work with Framework, Security, and PaaS teams to generate new solution ideas looking forward to the latest Platform solutions.
- Work with all Framework Engineering teams to design and deliver high-use, high-value, framework-level APIs.
- Understands, communicates, and is an advocate for local business and technology needs across all global Markets.
- Partners with global and geography leaders to ensure technology alignment.
- Provides technology guidance and insight to various business & technology Domain leaders.
- Successful track record of developing and growing long-term, high-value client relationships including managing senior stakeholders.
- All of the above functions are delivered for both clients/customers and Adec Innovations.
- ** Core Functional Knowledge/ Skills**
- Communication, both verbal (e.g.: presentations, seminars, etc.), and written (e.g.: reports, articles, etc.).; Group session facilitation; Team Leadership; Marketing (“selling” the results of architectural approaches); Analysis and design; Modelling and graphical representation and abstractions. Experience developing and building models based on The Enterprise Frameworkor the Zachman/TOGAF Framework for Enterprise Architecture; Management (e.g.: prioritization, trade-off analysis, psychology, etc.)
- ** Competencies / Behaviour**
- Understanding of appropriate technologies; Developing methods and techniques for modelling technologies from a business perspective; Influencing business strategy; Translating or mapping business strategy into business technology-transformable strategy; Understanding technology product and vendor strategies, products, and customer preferences; Understanding, modelling, and representing the organizations business requirements, as it relates to technology strategy; Communicating with business and technology leaders, both within and outside the company; Understanding the business needs for technology; Influencing the organization to accomplish technology needs through Enterprise architecture activities; Being viewed as the Business technology advisor to the organization; Building an effective Enterprise architecture organization; Understanding systems developers needs in parallel with Business needs; Demonstrated abilities to derive, define, and explicitly represent various artifacts within The Enterprise Frameworkor the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture; Understand the meanings and relationships between various models; Developing and maintaining project level and Business level model consistency and integration.
- ** Minimum requirements**
- A minimum of 10 years of planning and analysis experience with clients/customers is expected. In addition to some systems background, the Enterprise Architect will possess a broad background in different business sectors, with in-depth experience and knowledge in at least one aspect of the business (for example: engineering, manufacturing, planning, etc.). This is necessary to allow the Enterprise Solutions Architect to dialog with business stakeholders and management, on their terms. Finally, and key to this position, the Enterprise Architect should have demonstrated s



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