Applications Architect

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time

**Key purpose**:
**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Participate in the development and execution of Enterprise Architect strategies and tactical plans aligned with the corporate strategy.
- Plan and implement an Applications Architect Strategy, principles, framework, policies, and domain processes.
- Deliver a roadmap aligned with set budgets, resource requirements, market, industry, and business trends.
- Examine market trends and leading best practices in automation and digitisation to drive ICT transformation.
- Research and develop new solutions in support of continuous improvement.
- Propose forward-looking solutions to unmet and unrealized business needs, establishing the company as an industry trailblazer.
- Maintain the latest methodologies for software development, including AI and machine learning tools for improving coding quality and reducing testing and debugging time.
- Together with the business, identify and recommend critical success factors for measuring performance.
- Define technical requirements, assist with functional requirements, develop standards that govern system development and implementation, design and develop architectural systems.
- Support business and Development teams throughout the project lifecycle to help understand designs and refine them as necessary.
- Maintain clean audit results by conducting monthly self-assessments based on defined internal controls, anticipating and documenting risks, and reporting on gaps and mitigation activities.
- Establish a common understanding of the interventions to resolve audit issues.
- Comply with POPI Act requirements and data management privacy regulations.
- Provide weekly, and monthly management and status reports in accordance with the Business Unit metrics and requirements.
- Facilitate communication across Business Units, identify change management interventions and timelines from the project's perspective, and present the project status to the steering committee.
- Work with external software vendors on designs for new features or feature enhancements.
- Manage the integration of vendor deliverables by tracking and reviewing vendor performance.
- Implement good governance by confirming that SLAs with clients and service providers are in place, including contracts for information technology resources, i.e., hardware, software, human resources etc.
- Engage with business intelligence (BI), Data and Applications Teams in designing and delivering development approaches.
- Provide technical guidance and support to Project and Programme Managers to support smooth interfacing between vendors, internal designers, and business units
- Enhance stakeholder engagement to address issues, improve relations, and provide information on the project status.
- Participate in the preparation of the operating and capital expenditure budgets.
- Participate in all technical quotes, analyses, and specifications for accuracy and risk management.
- Manage the budget in accordance with the financial parameters and standards of the projects/programmes.
- Manages the effective use of the department's resources to improve organisational productivity and delivery.
- Provide Subject Matter Expertise in critical support issues where your experience is required to ascertain the issue quickly and to find the more appropriate resolution.
- On a monthly basis, manage the headcount in accordance with company principles and policies, including notifying HR of team cancellations, new business and new initiatives.
- Manage recruitment, performance management, training, career development programs, succession planning, resource planning, and HR processes across the team.
- Lead and manage employees' end-to-end performance management process, inspire and encourage your team to deliver on key performance areas, and provide the necessary support, coaching, and training.
- Manage and lead the Talent Management Process within one's area of responsibility to create value for high-value contributors.
- Comply with company Human Resources/Employee Relations policies and procedures and applicable Labour Laws.
- Drive employee training and development, maintaining that employees are provided with refresher courses in conjunction with the Training Academy

**Qualifications and experience**:

- Experience in a solutions architecture role across a variety of technologies and business spaces
- Familiarity with industry standard architecture frameworks
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline required
- Certification in relevant Enterprise Architecture or Technology frameworks and methodologies (Advantageous)
- Cloud certifications AWS or AZURE OR GCP (Advantageous)

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